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Delhi, India

New Delhi, Delhi, India

New Delhi Area, India

Evaluating, Refining and Rationalizing Company Financial and Operational strategies with a view to be agile and cost-resilient.

West Delhi, Delhi, India

• Disseminating monthly financial performance among all functions & departments and engaging them in periodic reviews to help drive both top-line and bottom-line results avoiding surprises.• Developing financial, operational and accounting strategies to help top management with prudent and pro-active decision making. Event / activity based P&L reporting to check pricing.• Accurate and concise reporting on areas of non-compliance with standard operating procedures. • Regular review and improvement of Night Audit process and Daily Sales Report (DSR) while ensuring all revenue and costs are correctly accounted and reported for. • Prepared excel utility to report P&L before month-end submission to corporate and reduced reliance on BI tool.• Carrying out Scheduled and unscheduled reviews of inventory systems and internal control environment to improve working capital employed. Reduced inventory volume by 16% over Aug-Dec 2017 period.• Controller-ship on all 110 balance sheet account reconciliations and ensuring all outstanding issues are pursued and closed in a timely manner. Improved compliance on corporate disclosures & certifications.• Providing leadership and training to direct reports to maximize employee engagement & productivity.• Actively participating in preparation &submission of Budgets, Business Plans and periodic forecasts.

Doha, Qatar

Month end reporting, preparation of MIS schedules and statutory reporting per IFRS and local GAAPs. Implemented credit control policy and setup a credit appraisal process before extending credits to new customers. Helped improve AR outstanding and reduce DSO days.

Abu Dhabi, Uae

Key Responsibilities• Delivery of month-end and annual financial closing, reporting & consolidation process• Presenting to senior management financial results with cost/volume variance analysis • Analysing costing trends, potential risk & opportunity areas to reposition business proactively• Continually identifying, implementing & developing best practices• Cost control- challenging standard operating costs, delivering against cost targets• Preparing annual budgets and periodic re-forecasting• Structuring inter-company transactions/ secondment contracts with maximum tax efficiency in compliance with international transfer-pricing norms• Supporting commercial proposals & bidding teams to meet company’s financial objectives, cost re-engineering for specific tenders/ bids• Performing due diligence reviews, authorize credit limits & negotiating payment terms• Managing payroll with focus on full labour law compliance in UAE, Bahrain and Iraq• Managing interface with Shared Service Centre for performance excellence for outsourced business services to minimize operating cost and optimize working capital• Internal audits - preparation and review of processes/ procedures to ensure all accounting policies & controls are documented, updated and constantly adhered• Supporting external audits for timely conclusion of statutory & tax audits in UAE & Iraq.Key Achievements• May 2013 – helped business improve FY 2013 bottom line by $0.25M for its projects in Qatar• Jul 2015 - Independently recovered $0.4M from a sub-contractor after a 2 year-long commercial pursuit• Dec 2015 - successfully transitioned several business processes like AP, AR banking, cash application, account reconciliations to its back office in India• Apr 2016 - implemented ERP-Oracle solutions for three entities in the region and helped business converge all operating systems onto one common time-writing and billing platform.

Gurgaon, India

Played strategic role in complying with various legislations and resolved several operating challenges during its incubation and evolution stages. Established internal controls and implemented Oracle ERP and management reporting systems needed to ensure compliance with different statutory, tax and regulatory reporting requirements.

Gurgaon, India

Project Accounting for a contract WG PSN had with a major Oil producer in Barmer (Rajasthan- Western India field. Managed all aspects of project management involving project costing analysis, budgeting, billing & AR follow up. Cash flow forecast, project insurance and performance bond etc. Complying with Service Tax and TDS regulations. Preparation and maintenance of entire trial balance, P&L, balance sheet and other financial reports. Expat employees' contract design as per transfer pricing regulations.

New Delhi Area, India

The company specializes into construction of five star hotel properties, town ships, malls and shopping complexes in Delhi & NCR region in India. I was leading a team of 15 whose deliverables involved:• Providing bookkeeping and accounting support for various real estate development projects.• Managing Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable, and Payroll functions for employees.• Generating budgets and forecasts on a monthly & quarterly basis• Managing vendor accounts, inventory records, and generating weekly demand for supplies. • Managing bank accounts, and performing bank reconciliation, generating daily cash reports.• Liaison with bankers, insurers and solicitors regarding financial transactions.• Establishing new and improving existing controls for internal operations.• Preparing monthly dashboards and Performance Appraisals for team members.

Gurgaon, India

I was part of the closing & reporting team managing BPO / back-end operations for VFS, a division of GE Capital, Danbury, USA. I would prepare reporting templates & required disclosures to SEC & other US statutory agencies. My major tasks were:• Reporting as per US GAAPs for certain portfolio like goodwill, intangibles and investments• Books closure including sub system close, booking monthly journals, clearing edits / checks• Preparation of reconciliations for major balance sheet portfolio like fixed assets, intangibles• Building detailed end to end process maps for critical closing & reporting processes• Oracle general ledger segment maintenance – setup of new legal entities, cost center codes• Transitioning several regulatory reporting schedules for SEC submission from US to India• Preparing submissions for soft-close & hard-close schedules for SEC disclosure on Hyperion

Gurgaon, India

The process was to ensure timely processing of Shipment orders for a Large US Telecom services provider. Responsible to ensure that each order processed was completed as per SLA.This involved a lot of Checks and regular follow-up with other teammates to ensure that Service Level Agreement is always maintained and that the interaction meets or exceeds the customer expectations.Helped in creation of a tracking mechanism for the team members and assisted the manager to setup a process to monitor the number of cases & quality of processing.

Kandla Port, Gujarat, India

I was responsible for preparation of branch accounts which included cash book, bank reconciliations, monthly Stock reports, payroll for the local staff, etc. Major responsibilities included:Compilation of Reports- Trading and Profit & Loss a/c, Physical Evaluation & stock verification reportsPreparing & maintaining Books of Accounts (Cash book, Ledger, Journal, Sales register, Assets register)Dealing with Sales tax authorities, PF & Labor department, and Customs DepartmentPreparing important reconciliation reports like stock evaluation, Bank reconciliationReporting to HQ at month end and to provide support for any Audit / Accounting effort.