Leads and manages the accounting team in the back office of the US parent company, overseeing finance and accounts operations related to freight forwarding.Ensure accurate month-end book closure, review General Ledger, Prepaid Fixed Assets schedules and Inter company Reconciliations. Review and report MIS, with a particular emphasis on the Gross Profit (GP) report, to the CFO at the US office.Collaborated with Operations to conduct regular audits and cleanup of Work in Progress (WIP) and Accruals of jobs, review of revenue recognition to ensure accuracy in the financial statements.Led successful integration of AI application (BravoTran) with Cargowise, automating invoice posting and optimizing accrual mismatch management. Achieved streamlined AP processes, enhanced data accuracy, and significant time and cost savings.Created an Excel Dashboard for management that presents AR / AP performance.Collaborated with Dun & Bradstreet to enhance vendor ratings, focusing on improving overall assessments and relationships.

Provided leadership, direction, and management of the accounting team across group entities.Oversaw company financial transactions and ensured compliance. Conducted financial analysis and presented MIS reports to the Board, offering insights for financial forecasting, projections, and budget management.Ensured precise and timely accounting, overseeing monthly, quarterly, and yearly closing processes. Led internal and statutory audits for the group entities. Initiated improvements in SAP utilization, optimizing effectiveness by cleaning up legacy systems and reconfiguring the SAP database and reporting functionalities.Established a robust system for Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Record to Report (R2R), internal control, and audit. Implemented an efficient workflow between Head Office and 16 factories across India.Cultivated a performance-oriented and transparent culture, fostering team participation. Ensured team motivation and optimal performance through strategic measures, including reward and recognition, role definition, restructuring, promotions, and appraisals.

I was directly managing the outsourcing operations of clients across the globe with the core outsourcing functions are P2P, AR, R2R, Payroll, IT development, and maintenance. Successfully managed transitions of various processes from Australia to India including payroll, AR, AP, R2R, bookkeeping, and client services.Drive the teams for all possible avenues to improve, simplify, and innovate current processes and bring about productivity improvements.Managed Client relationships with regular interactions and feedbacks.Assisting the group MD on all strategic & tactical matters as they relate to budget, cost-benefit analysis, operations, forecasting needs & securing of new funding.I have also developed a full-fledged IT development team in Chennai, that not only manages in-house software development requirements but also provides services to other clients. Co-author of a web-based business platform www.myofficehub.com that acts as an office in the cloud. The main focus of the hub is to provide SME's one platform to manage their Purchase to Procure, Sales, Contracts, Payroll, Roster, Timesheet, Leave, etc paperless.

Concorde Textile is an export manufacturing and trading group of companies. It manufactures & trades Terry Towels. My Accounts and Finance skills helped the organization to establish online accounting and timely forecasting reporting for all its units. I also coordinated a campaign for setting up 5S methodology. I established cost control on different phases of the operations by bringing awareness among production staff and management for reducing wastages and over production, that saved amount spent on working capital.

I started my career with a non-profit organization, Raj Vidya Kender as an Accounts Executive. Here I received good exposure and opportunity to learn and implement accounting & financial principles. During my 6 years term in which 2 years as Finance controller, I brought the accounts and finance functions online, restructured MIS reporting among 10 Regional Centres and more than 2000 local centres at district level. Strengthened the resource team by providing training programs in all over India.