Rani Bariana

Experience

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  Scottish Friendly, CB Richard Ellis, BAA, Glasgow City Council, Countrywide, Glasgow Science Centre

  May 2008 - Aug 2010

  Reconciliations, Accounts Payable/Receivable Assistant

  Between May 2008 and August 2010 I had various temporary positions. Collect and process traffic related charging data using computerised systems in order to accurately and promptly calculate and raise airport charges and invoices for BAA airports and provide the business with associated statistical information -BAA Processing charges based on a five day cycle in accordance with strict invoicing schedule. Liaise with airlines/handling agents/suppliers to actively collect, collate and input passenger, cargo/ mail/fulfilment figures within tight deadlines in order to enable invoicing on a strict five day cycle. Responsible for the daily sealing and validating of the payload data and the verification of the five day invoicing runs. Investigate and resolve queries & disputes in a professional, polite and timely manner to ensure a continued positive relationship with airlines/suppliers. Prepare regular and ad hoc statistics for airports, other BAA departments, Senior Management and Directors and answer all ad-hoc queries from authorised external bodies Masterfile maintenance of data within the various system Developed and maintained good relations with suppliers, Senior Management, Directors, Airlines, Handling Agents, Airport Operations staff and other BAA departments. Ensure invoices are processed in line with service level agreements Provide first class administrative support to customers, clients and colleagues Updating customer records Dealing with email queries and telephone calls Produced spreadsheet with daily figures of what we have received each day. Produced a spreadsheet which shows figures from each airport and then pivot table formed to show a breakdown of amounts and what exactly ordered. Stock/Cash Reconciliations Manual reconciliations of approx 500+ different accounts using macros. Investigation of outstanding entries. Producing monthly figures for reconciled accounts. Migrating from various systems Show less

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  Tesco Bank

  Aug 2010 - Jun 2013

  • Creation of the fulfilment budget for the financial year for Banking Operations – Savings, Credit Cards, Loans, Customer Operations and Collections & Recoveries.• Analysis of the monthly fulfilment expenditure for each supplier and department• Liaising with the departments to ensure reconciliation of monthly invoices received• Creation of Purchase Orders and receipting • Managing the monthly spend of Operational budgeto Raising and Receipting of Purchase Order’so Keeping track of Purchase Order’s raised and increasing where necessary and advising key parties of the key reasons why the increase is required.o Liaising with key suppliers such as TSYS, Gemalto, Polestar, Swiss Post, RR Donnelly, An Post, DX, TICO, BT Ireland and any recruitment agencies such as Search, Huntswood and Grovelands. To make sure invoices for services are received in a timely manner, so that reconciliation of invoices can be performed and any discrepancies discussed with the supplier and payments made on time.o Developed an effective way of tracking actual volumes against forecasted volumes with regards to fulfilment.o Liaising with the Finance Manager to ensure the Fulfilment Model is kept up to date.o Developed an effective way of tracking overtime on a spreadsheet tracker on a weekly basiso Liaising with Finance department and Accounts Payable on a daily basis Show less • Significant involvement in many aspects of the Credit Cards migration:o Led a group of people to carry out UAT testingo Key Analyst within the data validation. Handling high volume & confidential account numbers for testing to be carried out successfully, through dry runs, dress rehearsals & migration which was a huge success.o Creation of level 4 and level 5 process for different areaso Liaising with key Project Managers and Tesco Bank Stakeholders pre & post migrationo Creation of Business Continuity document for both Credit Cards and Customer Ops.• Producing weekly MI pack for the Credit Cards Operations Group which is then published to the Banking Ops wide pack.• Creating various individual MI documents for the Senior Management Team.• Effective communications with the Team Managers of the Originations, Chargebacks, Payments, Reconciliations and Telephony teams to carry out their Risk & Controls and feed back updates with regards to their findings so analysis can be carried out by myself.• Developed key Risk & Controls for the different teams within the Credit Cards department• Creation of monthly Risk Committee pack o Risk & Controls analysis – Team Managerso Risk Committee Pack – Issues and Events from Operations Managerso Ensuring Regulatory training is up to date• Monthly Risk Meetings held with Head of Department, Operations Managers and Risk Manager to discuss key issues and events• Maintains a healthy, strong relationship with different departments out with Credit Cards mainly with Finance, Risk and Strategy & Planning.• Managing the monthly spend of Customer Operations & Credit Cards budget Show less

  • Fulfilment Analyst - Banking Operations

    Feb 2013 - Jun 2013

  • Operational Analyst - Credit Cards (Risk/Finance)

    Dec 2010 - Feb 2013

  • Operational Analyst - Customer Operations (Migration)

    Aug 2010 - Dec 2010
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  Hutchison 3G

  Jun 2013 - Dec 2013

  Reporting Analyst

  • Provided timely and accurate reporting on all aspects of payment activity• Identified any customer impact to senior management • Develop and maintain Payments KPI and SLA Reporting Maintaining the current databases held within Customer Payments Team (basic)• Liaising with Payment Vendors to deliver performance monitoring reporting• Use of SAS to produce key reports and information• Provided insight and support to the Customer Payments Team to help drive change to increase payment success rates• Creation of Macro’s to reduce the amount of manual work everyday meaning reporting done earlier each morning• Creation of in depth reporting as well as high level Show less

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  Barclays Wealth and Investment Management

  Jan 2014 - Aug 2014

  Product MI Analyst

  • Own and improve the Finance performance reporting processes and produce the weekly and monthly MI packs for the Banking and Credit Product Heads and the Segment Finance business teams.• Produce the weekly trading update for Banking and Credit funds flow analysis for the Private Bank regions reporting on inflows and outflows to the bank.• Produce the Monthly Income Matrix• Produce monthly Internal Funds MI pack• Supporting the Banking and Credit team with adhoc financial analysis.• Interfacing with the product areas and business on financial queries and requests.• Making sure adequate risk & controls are implemented across the MiCOE and everyone is aware of them. Show less

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  Tesco Bank

  Aug 2014 - Nov 2015

  • Producing a meaningful suite of reports using SAS using SQL.• Providing a daily insight to key stakeholders on how Collections & Recoveries are performing• Undertaking meaningful analysis of data that will support stakeholders in making key operational and strategic business decisions• Undertakes MI Reporting and Analytics through SAS and developing insights which drive actions within the operation• Using the FICO system to produce meaningful MI• Undertakes risk checks for MCR Reporting and for Regulatory requests• Producing Daily and Monthly MI packs for Senior Management Show less

  • WL2 Application Specialist

    Jun 2015 - Nov 2015

  • Strategy & MI Analyst

    Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
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  Clydesdale Bank

  Nov 2015 - Oct 2016

  Senior HR Systems and MI Analyst (FT Contract)

  • Key SME with the migration from the current SAP system to CoreHR system• Interpreting approx. 500 access database queries in order for new reporting criteria to be passed in to the new system• Creating new BAU reporting in BI Discoverer• Testing reporting in BI Discoverer against current processes• Performing and creating the HR Year End Bonus and Reward assessment and letters for all employees• Creating robust process notes for the HR Year End Process whilst improving the existing processes• Improving and amending existing HR MI BAU processes and processes notes• Providing relevant HR MI to Senior People Leaders • Working with the SAP system Show less

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  Chubb

  Nov 2016 - Jan 2017

  Business Analyst
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  Speirs & Jeffrey

  Mar 2017 - Dec 2018

  MI Technical Analyst
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  Barclays

  Jan 2019 - now

  • VP Senior Business Manager - Finance

    Sept 2022 - now

  • AVP ER Workforce Change & Restructuring Change Manager

    Aug 2022 - Sept 2022

  • AVP HR Location Strategy Project Manager

    Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

  • AVP Compliance Business Manager for COO

    Jan 2019 - Jan 2022