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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

General Electric (GE), Assistant Manager, 8 years

GENPACT, Finance Transformation Lead, 12 years

Areas of coverage
  • Finance Technology

  • Finance Function Strategy and Organizational Design

  • Digital Finance Processes

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)

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

GL Close Streamlining

02

Improving Accounting Process - Continuous Accounting

03

Finance Target Operating Model initiative in building Shared Service center strategy - R2R

04

Accounting / Controllership Organizational Design / Structure

05

Global Process Owner Strategy