A highly energetic and positive thinking candidate with an excellent documented record of accomplishment and success in the field of accounting and business administration. Highlights of the background include 20+ years of solid experience, a bachelor's degree in commerce, and expertise in setting up, managing well functioning teams.Key Professional Highlights:1. Built, developed and managed the finance department of 6 employees for an early-stage restaurant chain startup2. Defined, implemented the transformation of processes, policies, governing structure to turn around finance dept.3. Streamlined the annual audit workflow to enable comprehensive audits by major Big 4 firms, significantly reducing the average audit cycle time by enhancing the accuracy and reliability of financial reporting across the firm4. Implemented new ERP system, chart of accounts, and partially integrated POS and HO softwares5. Enabled ~35% YoY cost reduction by developing cost analysis and reporting systems across all functions, branches6. Defined a weekly payments forecasting system across 10+ payment heads; streamlining daily payment processing7. Implemented VAT across systems and procedures; ensured regulatory compliance; timely return filing, payment8. Lead cost accounting processes across the organization to enable accurate reporting of COGS, control and variance; set up and maintenance of accurate cost information, reconciliation of standard cost to actual cost9. Turned around pending backlogs and achieved year-end closing cycle in first 3 months of leadership in new firm 10. Acted as SME for supermarket accounts; owned management and reconciliation of complex key accounts11. Accelerated the month-end closing process by initiating corrective actions for maintaining accounting records12. Enabled tiered pricing strategy and rebate mechanisms impacting volume and topline efficiencies for FMCG firm13. Revamped pricing strategy for fast-food chain; identified product segments and best prices; Enabled higher sales14. Implemented centralized cloud-based collection and access of Payroll and employee data across the organization15. Generated year-end summary report in 3-weeks by implementing real-time accounting, reconciliation process flow16. Developed a monthly physical inventory reconciliation and variance reporting system across 500+ stock items