Kavin Krishnan Email & Phone Number

Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Responsible for all Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger functions for Malaysia entity.• Ensure all financial records are accurately maintained in a timely basis.• Preparing bank reconciliation, GST & SST submissions and other reporting requirements.• Prepare and ensure timely month end closing and monthly budget variance analysis reports.• Liaising with external auditors and Head Office to manage local and statutory reporting requirements and audit preparation.• Overseeing HR matters on payroll, including statutory employee tax deductions.• Improve existing and develop new finance related policies, procedures and internal controls for the region.• Preparing any ad-hoc reporting on financial analysis as and when needed by Group Heads in Hong Kong.Achievements1. First and newest in the group to have cleared yearly audit despite having software migration hiccups like data and figures disappearing and etc, on a very short span of time i.e. 1.5 months upon joining. Impressed management was sent to Singapore region immediately to assist colleague on the upcoming audit (despite not under my portfolio).2. Played a focal role and also a core member of team in revamping group SOPs and also resolving costing and all issues of group of companies upon joining.3. Managed to attain high KPI for job4. Implemented GST for current company and also implemented changes from GST to SST for company (I attended a special SST seminar conducted by Dr. Choong Kwai Fatt).

Singapore

• Catered to 2 Singaporean companies along with 5 Hong Kong companies based in Singapore including clients investing ranging from financial derivatives to international horse racing and breeding industry. • Managed accounting for financial products like bonds, swap deposits, fixed deposits, shares (foreign & local) and other financial products.• Worked very closely business owners with liaising with stakeholders and owners of businesses.• Prepared various accounts and management reports for business stakeholders including Trial Balance, Trading Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, consolidated financial reports for stakeholders to enable effective decision making. • Coordinated day to day finance activities including management of payments to vendors, invoicing to debtors and maintained debtor master data. Authenticated accounts by incorporating accruals and prepayments.• Conducted monthly reconciliation of various banks, budget and variance analysis on expenses and budgeting for cash flow.• Managed year-end audit and liaising with auditors & tax agents (both Singapore & Hong Kong).• Prepared inventory costings for clients. Coordinated activities related to implementing MYOB accounting and data management.• Coordinated administrative/HR functions like payroll, claims to be submitted to CPF, • Overseeing day to day functions of assistant.Achievement:1. Designed and implemented a sophisticated Detailed Inventory Costing Sheet for horse owners.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Maintained accounts for major projects like The Palm Deira, Dubai, Meydan Business Park, Dubai, Precinct 2 & 9 for Putrajaya, Malaysia, Pakistan General Headquarters, Pakistan and Tianjin Racecourse, Tianjin.• Involved in preparing various accounts and management reports encompassing trial balance, trading profit & loss, balance sheet and also consolidated financial reports.• Oversee on Letter of Awards to sub-consultants and ensuring the fees/costs were capped to budget.• Oversee and led the account assistants in maintaining petty cash payments, journal entries petty cash vouchers and payment vouchers.• Coordinated activities related to preparing journal entries, payment vouchers, fixed asset summary.• Processed payments to vendors, invoiced debtors and maintained debtor master data.• Authenticated accounts by incorporating accruals and prepayments. • Conducted monthly bank reconciliation for various banks.• Prepared and presented various status reports to the senior management highlighting organizational financial health.• Managed year-end audit including preparing audit schedules.• Interacted with auditors, tax agents, banks, clients, vendors for resolving tax matters.• Assisted in HR & admin related issues like annual leave, staff claims and others.Achievements1. Core member of the team to build the biggest racecourse in the world – holding 7 Guinness World records.2. Conducted special internal audits on inventories of projects worth millions of dirhams and implemented additional controls to prevent further losses.

Melaka, Malaysia

• Involved in preparing accounts, management reports including trial balance, trading profit & loss, balance sheet and also consolidated financial reports. • Prepared journal entries, payment vouchers including payments to vendors and invoicing to debtors• Incorporated accruals and prepayments in accounts. Reconciled bank accounts and prepared fixed asset summary• Managed year-end audit including preparing audit schedules and tax matters. Liaised with auditors and tax agentsAchievements1. Single handedly spearheaded the planning and implementation MYOB Retail Software i.e. POS for the retail company. Went live after 3 months.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Audit exec. for medium sized audit firm.• Conducted 1 special audit of a construction company prior to IPO listing.• Audit exposure on manufacturing, trading, construction, professional firms and real estate.• Work revolved auditing of companies and assist in secretarial vetting for statutory audit purposes

1) Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia; & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Accounts exec (PTP) for Shell Lutong (Miri) • Process invoices and process payments from purchase to payment process through SAP accounting. • Cross verification of PO to invoice to ensure validity of purchase including liaising with procurement team on PO.• Advise vendors and also client on payment details, outstanding amount and others and update data into SAP system or to the correct focal point.