Mohammed Abul Laiz Ali

• Handled month-end and year-end end finances by managing and reporting fixed assets and other data.
• Updated general ledger with latest entries.
• Completed year-end closing processes with controllers and external auditors.
• Prepared monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
• Reconciled balance sheets and streamlined best practices for balance sheet processes.
• Leveraged finance knowledge to strengthen controls and improve transparency.
• Oversaw accounting team in servicing diverse clients.
• Reviewed business operations and obligations to help organization function at acceptable level.
• Assisted in upgrade and conversion of in-house financial systems.
• Recommended strategies to expedite filing projects and annual reporting.
• Evaluated and improved financial records to make important business decisions.
• Reviewed budgets and communicated discrepancies to senior management.
• Partnered with auditors to track errors and add contributions to maintain accuracy.
• Contributed to hiring, training and development of accounting teams.

• Reviewed, identified, updated and prioritized strategic initiatives to provide comprehensive support to senior leadership.
• Facilitated creation of governance policy for adoption by board of directors and committee chairperson.
• Reviewed incoming correspondence and drafted appropriate responses for CEO and other high-level stakeholders.
• Communicated with leadership teams to assist with administrative initiatives and decisions and attended weekly meetings to support policy changes.
• Monitoring and Managing team of 60-70 members in effective manner
• Played stellar role in establishing a managing end-to-end operations of financial controller, internal audit operations, expense operations, Order to cash, tax operations and HRO activities for a leading Healthcare client based out of US from 10 full time employees to 60 full time employees in 18 months.
• Essayed key role in driving:

Process excellence and accordingly generated value-add to the customer and business

Team in exceeding the customer expectations and managing the various stakeholders

Synergies by leveraging best practices across teams and organization

• Successfully got stock options from company, Holds distinction of being recognized as top performer in company
• Attracted and retained new members through organizational rebranding and targeting marketing campaigns to specific audiences.
• Clarified roles, responsibilities and expectations of staff.
• Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.
• Facilitated creation of governance policy for adoption by board of directors and committee chairperson

• Handled team of 60 members
• Managed large-scale projects and introduced new systems, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
• Evaluated hiring, firing, and promotions requests.
• Recommended and implemented successful strategies to maximize revenue.
• Developed proposals and presentations for internal and external audiences.
• Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.
• Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
• Held monthly meetings to create business plans and workshops to drive successful business.
• Boosted team member productivity by enhancing performance monitoring and instituting motivational approaches.
• Efficiently reviewed high end valuations projects and IPO clients
• Significantly identified business impact/ productivity opportunities and converted those to gain share deal
• Carried out:

o Knowledge management to enhance the process health

o Generation of MIS reports for management and clients

o Audit and ISO compliances for the processes

• Responsible for driving retention, employee satisfaction & energizing the team
• Leading and mentoring six sigma projects within processes
• Overseeing transition of additional projects (Scope Expansion)
• Founding member of EXL (OPI) Analytics team and F&A Academy which simultaneously got transformed from a concept to reality

• Managed team of 40 members
• Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
• Ran errands and provided general office support in professional environment.
• Delivered services to customer locations within specific timeframes.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Carried out:

o Process management of valuation services

o Purchase price allocation valuation to find the value of intangibles and goodwill

o Mark to market valuations to ascertain the value of investments of venture capitals

• Efficiently ensured quality by defining processes and controls
• Essayed key role in responding to auditor’s questions
• Significantly advised client management on price of stock and the value at which options should be issue
• Played stellar role in performing reviews of high end clients and accordingly managed their valuations independently

• Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response.
• Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
• Conducted training and mentored team members to promote productivity, accuracy, and commitment to friendly service.
• Established open and professional relationships with team members to achieve quick resolutions for various issues.
• Monitored and Managed team of 25 members
• Played stellar role in performing valuation analysis for:

Issuance of stock options for Private companies (409A)

Purchase price allocation for determining goodwill and intangibles in case of merger and acquisitions (FAS 141R/142)

Ascertaining mark to market value of investments done by Venture capitals (FAS 157)

Significantly ascertained the value of derivatives embedded in the debt structure of the company by performing derivatives valuations (FAS 133)

Essayed a key role in building valuation team and ensuring that the knowledge management was valuated in place

Ensured proper documentation for all processes

• Managed Cash Application and Reconciliation process for 3 business Units
• Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
• Validated results and performed quality assurance to assess accuracy of data.
• Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support for platform transitions.
• Performed budget analysis to control expenditures and predict future budget needs.
• Validated results and performed quality assurance to assess accuracy of data