Rav Singh Email and Phone Number

Key Achievements:• Member of the executive team who drove the growth of KX from 28 studios in 1 country to more than 120 studios in 6 countries including Singapore, New Zealand, China, Indonesia, Taiwan and Australia.• Instrumental in growing revenue from $3m to more than $10m.• Kept the business afloat during COVID and turned the cash position around from negative to $1m positive.• Transitioned monthly reporting, consolidation and 3-way forecast from Excel to an online platform, reducing the month-end executive report time from 8 business days to just 3.• Hired, trained, and mentored accounting graduates to help them build their successful careers in accounting and finance.• Assisted the business development team in recruiting new franchisees globally by building and developing a robust financial model that became an integral part of the recruitment process.• Set up all financial systems and processes from ground zero including 3-way budgets and forecast, cashflow management, month end board reporting, fixed asset register, company policies and risk register.• Automated expense forms, leave forms and timesheets.Key Responsibilities:• Develop and implement financial strategies, policies, and procedures that align with the company's objectives.• Oversee financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis to provide timely and accurate financial information to senior management.• Preparing an end-to-end monthly board report.• Risk management.• Provide strategic financial advice and support to senior management team to inform business decisions and drive growth.• Manage relationships with banking partners, investors, and other financial institutions.• Coach, mentor, and develop the accounting and finance team to ensure high performance and career growth opportunities.Systems used: Xero, Xero Me, Weel, Dext, Phocas, Power BI, Asana, Atlassian, Jira, Op Central, Hapana, Google Workspace, Microsoft products, Zoom, Tanda, Gapmaps, FranConnect

Key Business Achievements:• I was an integral part of the financial due diligence as part of the acquisition of another food franchise chain Wok in a Box.• I successfully implemented MYOB asset manager to manage the asset register in-house.• Set up a robust model to track inventory and automate the ordering process.• Launched a monthly KPI report pack for the network which became an integral part of reward and recognition program.• Streamlined the year end accounting process.Responsibilities:• Assisting CFO with month end and year end process.• Responsible for preparing trend analysis report for management team every week.• Costing analysis for all new products and update costing for existing menu on monthly basis.• Formulating monthly KPI report pack for the whole network.• Preparing yearly budget for marketing fund and catch up with marketing manager on monthly basis to discuss any discrepancies in the actual results as compared to the budget.• Preparing monthly scorecard to assist training manager with reward & recognition program.• Organise yearly audit for marketing fund with external auditors.• Reconciling balance sheet accounts.• Preparing profit & loss statements for company owned restaurants on weekly basis.• Managing another staff member looking after accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll.• Assisting supply manager in managing stock levels, placing orders with our international suppliers, sending stock out to the retailer who then sends it out to the restaurants.Systems used: MYOB, MYOB Asset Manager, World Manager, Microsoft products