Rahul Raj Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Research and financial content writing for financial services firms

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Accounting role with Knowledge Process Outsourcing firm servicing Australian accounting clients
• Account management on multiple accounting platforms– MYOB, Quickbooks, Xero. Monitoring of performance ratios on Calxa
• Set up of accounting processes, in coordination with client, geared to efficiency

Sydney, Australia

• Role in a growing accounting and mortgage firm with a wide range of responsibilities across disciplines
• Helped clients find finance solutions tailored to their financial and risk profiles and requirements
• Wrote over $10m in residential mortgage loans, assisted clients with the borrowing procedures, and interreacted with lending financial institutions, to ensure a hassle-free process
• Designed a streamlined compliance procedure for mortgage lending to keep in pace with the rapidly modernising compliance environment
• Helped design and implement a marketing plan that has boosted the firm’s client base
• Allocated client’s bank account transactions to appropriate accounts on Xero and Quickbooks

Melbourne, Australia

• A 6-month internship program with a focus on ARAP management and BAS preparations with an accounting firm.
• Processed regular transactions and payroll on MYOB, Xero, and Reckon
• Maintained the Fixed Asset Registers, Prepayment and Accrual Schedules, and Debtor Aging Reports on Excel
• Generated Cost Centre Analysis Reports
• Prepared Quarterly BAS reports

Huntingwood, New South Wales, Australia

• 2-month Summer Internship in a major multinational industrial equipment manufacturing and servicing company with the Finance and Logistics team
• Maintained Debtor Reports and chased down ageing debt, directing any customer issues that affected payment to the logistics and engineering teams
• Maintained Vendor and Customer Invoices on the ERP iScala
• Designed a more streamlined Accounting General Ledger Reconciliation sheet than was present, and thus increasing the efficiency of month-end accounting processes
• Worked under the guidance of the Chief Financial Controller of Alfa Laval Australia, Mr Mikael Dahlgren and learnt from an experienced finance and logistics team

Melbourne, Australia

• Research Assistant
• Analysed Board Turnover of ASX Companies as an indicator of nomination committee efficiency, under the guidance of the Head of Department (Accounting), Professor Peter Carey

Melbourne, Australia

• Curated an online open-source textbook library, as a part of an online toolkit to help students and educators
• Created textbook support content in the form of quizzes, focusing on finance and marketing subjects
• Market competitor analysis of rival online library and educational platforms
• Assisted in gaining funding from Optus & Singtel, which led the company winning the Future Makers Award. The company also won the Singtel Regional award for social impact

Chennai Area, India

• De Tale is an independent short film crew based from Chennai, India. The short film industry in India is extremely competitive with the only real returns coming from Film Festival winsKey responsibilities
• Manage projects efficiently with extremely constrained resources
• Acquiring funding with extremely volatile returns through crowd funding and direct plan pitching
• Accounting and budgeting expenditures and analyzing project viability

Masters Of Accounting And International Finance, Accounting And Finance, Hd

Activities and Societies: Deakin Enviro Club

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Management With Law