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Jeffrin Francis
Director Analyst
Francis Jeffrin is a Director - Analyst in the Finance practice specialized in Finance Transformation, Process Diagnostics, Solution Design, R2R, Financial Shared services.
Previous experience
Enterprise Finance Transformation & Re-engineering Projects:
- Transformation of Global Finance Payroll process to enable Touchless Accounting.
- Finance Target Operating Model: Setting up Shared Services Model. Led for NA Controllership Workstream
- Performed an end-to-end evaluation and streamlined the Cash Accounting and reconciliation Process
- Global Standard Taxonomy for all the Finance Controllership functions and re-define finance definitions to fit Horizontal Roadmap
Finance & Accounting - Operations Management:
Led multiple Finance teams for a leading Insurance & Industrial company
1) General Accounting, Closing & Reporting Process and Balance Sheet Account Reconciliation
2) Payroll Processing; Functional Validation, Auto posting, Mapping Maintenance, Defaulting, Costing etc
3) Expense Controllership: Management Reporting, Variance Analysis & Travel & Living Audit
Professional background
GENPACT, Finance Transformation Lead, 12 years
General Electric (GE), Assistant Manager, 8 years
Areas of coverage
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Finance Function Strategy
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Finance Processes and ERP
Education
Bachelor of Commerce
PMP (Project Management Professional) from PMI
Six Sigma Green Belt Certified (from GE)
FLMI [Fellow Life Management Institute] from LOMA, USA
CSM (Certified Scrum Master)
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
GL Close Streamlining
Improving Accounting Process - Continuous Accounting
Finance Target Operating Model initiative in building Shared Service center strategy - R2R
Accounting / Controllership Organizational Design / Structure
Global Process Owner Strategy