• Gender: Male
• Age: 38
• Designation: Manager - Finance & Accounts
• Highest Education Level: Other
• Preferred Country: India
• Preferred Location: Mangalore
• Work Experience: 17.5 Year(s)

Education

Pursuing CMA from Institute of Management Accountants, USA
Certification in Financial Modelling and valuation from Grant Thornton. In 2021.
Advanced Certification in International Trade from EXIM Institute, Mumbai in 2018
M.Com. from KSO University, Mysore in 2015
MBA in Finance from KSO University, Mysore in 2013
B.Com. from Mangalore University in 2007

Skill Sets

Competent Decision-Maker
Effective Communicator
Analytical & Problem-Solver
Team Management & Leadership

SAP, Oracle, Cognos
MS Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint)

Work Experience

Manager - Finance & Accounts
From - May 17 to till date
Company profile - leading suppliers of additives for the plastics industry offering PVC additives

Job profile -
Lead controllership operations - Reporting, taxation, treasury, compliance, risk management, audit, Budgeting & forecasting.
Provide monthly high qualitative MIS for management review of financial trends by providing variance analysis of actual
expenses with respect to the budgeted and forecast figures.
Forecasts/Planning - Coordinate with local management & German FP&A to prepare the Annual Operating Plans, quarterly
forecasts, capital budgets, and long-range plans.
Monthly closing and finalization of financial statements for all Entities. Establishing checkpoints for accruals accounting and
internal controls to ensure that the firm's accounting policies and practices are followed.
Developing expense models using assumptions and scenarios for financial decision-making and establishing controls in the
business process re-engineering. Tracking, Monitoring &Controlling of all Expenses (Opex/ Capex), reviewing and reporting
the Sales analysis, Material costing, price variance, and profitability/Margin variance to the Management.
SAP Full knowledge & experience on FICO Module
Project - Review the project of the company in line with budgets. Weekly and Monthly review utilization pipeline, and cash
expenses. Mobilize funds for the Projects.
Preparing financial models to present business implications and decision support for the leadership. Preparation of Project
Reports, Business Plans, Financial Projections, Cash Flows, P&L, Ratio analysis, NPV/IRR/Pay Back Charts.
Liaison with Internal auditors to ensure the review and implementation of recommendations.
Ensure timely compliance with applicable tax and financial laws, regulations and guidelines.
Indirect Taxation - handle compliance, Return, Audits, Departmental audit, and litigations (GST & Customs)
Develop the Audit plans and supervise statutory audit.
Heading day-to-day operational tasks of trade finance transactional structuring for capital projects involving foreign vendors.
Managing trade finance products such as negotiation/payment of Letters of Credit (L/Cs), Sight & Usance Export, Import
Bills, Bank Guarantees (BG), SBLC, GR Waivers, IDPMS & EDPMS timely closure of the same, along with full compliance with the relevant regulations
Develop annual operating plan basis inputs from business and allied teams in compliance with the applicable standards and
accounting guidelines and develop a business model, extending to future years basis the conditions and assumptions, as
needed. forecasts and compares budget to actual costs, ensuring that budgets are adhered to.
Preparation of financial reports related to budgets & preparation of presentation for Board Presentation at Germany.
Controlling of Treasury function- Work on clearly laid out plans to manage funds within the approved budgets. Liaisoning with
banks - Setting up credit lines, negotiating for rates, Interest rate swaps, project loans, Trade products, forex margin
negotiation, bank audit, complying RBI & FEMA regulations. Preparation of CMA & finance projection.
Ensure the Excess fund investment in a mutual fund, bonds, FD, commercial paper & its liquidity as per fund requirement.
Analyze and evaluate investment proposal for an investment decision.
Hedging exposures as per group policy. hedging and monitoring the foreign currency movement of USD & EUR.LEI Renewals.
Monitoring foreign exchange and interest rate exposures; defining FX Business Expansion Strategy for currency risks.
Perform continuous cash forecasts to enable decisions on proper capital allocation. Work out rolling Cash Flow projections
for weekly, monthly, 3,6 months and long-term plans for continuous cash planning and ensuring liquidity in short term and
long term.
Credit rating and compliance of credit rating requirements and relationships with rating agencies.
Manage, train, and evaluate the performance of the Accounts Payable team members, Ensure compliance of the AP
transactions with existing policies and controls
Monitor the Reconciliation of the accounts payable ledger to ensure that all bills and payments are accounted for and
properly posted Cashflow Management and ensure that all payments are released as per decided timelines
understanding of the entire procure-to-pay process including different invoice types (Manual, Consolidated, and Automated).
to work on strict deadlines, in a fairly high-pressure business environment. Ensure that all AR responsibilities include collections follow-up, maintaining customer ledgers, handling pre-payments from
the customers, resolving account irregularities, periodic customer account reconciliations and balance confirmations.
Identify and collaborate on solutions for accounts receivable collections process deficiencies, Owns the full cash application
process and present KPIs to executive management on a regular basis
To ensure timely submission of all relevant monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual MIS. Sales, receivables, pending legal
cases / sticky accounts / major concerns report etc
Preparing reports and presentations on the financial performance of the company and key improvements sharing the same
with the CFO for facilitating strategic making in board-level meetings.
Leading the Foreign Trade team (Operational & Financial Activities) involving Import & Export Documentation, AEO
Registration, DPD Registration, MOOWR Registration, MEIS, ROTDEP, Drawback Collection, Duty Refund, Negotiation with
CHA & Reviewing KPI report
Ensure that All intercompany transactions are reported properly as per Audit requirements and coordinate with the group
finance team on monthly basis for group reporting.
People Development - Build and coach a strong team to develop finance and accounting capabilities within the extended Finance
team and the organization, enable career progression foster team spirit and collaboration.

Terminal Finance & Admin In charge - Finance & Admin
From -Oct14 to May17
Company profile - Domain expertise in Terminalling, Build Services and Renewable Energy.

Job profile -
To manage end-to-end accounts payable operations including invoice receipt from vendors, invoice validation along with rate cards and other supporting information, raising timely queries to the vendors after a validation check, following up with
vendors and resolving invoice-related queries, processing invoices in the ERP, reviewing outstanding invoices before payment
team initiates a payment, posting payment application for unapplied invoices.
Delivering timely, accurate, and complete accruals information to the HO as per the agreed month-end timelines.
Timely reviewing the GLs related to the accounts payable and ensuring correct GL coding performed during invoice processing by the AP team members.
Timely resolution of queries by extending required support to the team members.
Prepared AOP (Annual Operating Plan), tracked Provisions & Actual Expenses; conducted Variance Analysis, Business Planning & Analysis, Annual Budgeting, Forecasting, planning, Actual vs. Estimated Budget Analysis, and so on
Proven experience with an understanding of financial evaluation techniques, especially forecasting P&L modeling, cost
analysis.
Accountability for the accuracy of the Product P&L, providing detailed reporting and analysis, including insights into
revenue, margin, opex, and contribution profit Inclusion of KPIs to be reported against and measured on through the
Financial Year.
Managed statutory Books of Accounts (Profit & Loss A/c, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and Funds Flow Statements), bank
reconciliation statements, scrutinized various accounts like GL, Vendor Ledger & Customer Ledger, Recoverable Expenses and consolidated reports in compliance with time & accuracy norms.
Managing trade finance products such as negotiation/payment of Letters of Credit (L/Cs), Sight & Usance Export, Import Bills, Bank Guarantees (BG), Export documentation & so on Supervised:
Accounts Receivables: Obtained payment within 21 days & ensured nil outstanding payment
Custom Payments like Custom duty, Wharfage, VIA for Foreign and domestic vessel
MIRO/ Service PO/Service Entry /Expenses Entry
Railway Freight Payment & coordinated with Railway Officer for railway refund, STTG Certificate & Co-User permission
Indirect Taxation - Excise, Custom, Sales Tax Resolved fraudulent activity matters
Statutory documentation for bonded material purchase & removal from the terminal
Ensured proper recording and application of cash, management of outstanding invoices; directly interfacing with customers on collection matters, and resolution of disputes
Liaison with Internal auditors to ensure the review and implementation of recommendations.
Created and reviewed daily MIS reports of suspense, TOD, large transactions, and suspicious transaction reporting
Developed & maintained healthy business relationships with local and international banks, rating agencies, and regulatory / govt. entities for business funding

Plant Accounts & Finance
Apr12 to Oct14
Tushaco Pumps Pvt. Ltd

Accounts Officer
Sep10 to Apr12:
NITCO Ltd

Delta Galil Textiles (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Jul07 to Sep10:
Account Supervisor