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Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates

• Established and optimized financial, accounting, and warehouse processes in UAE, Oman, and Qatar, ensuring compliance with local regulations and IFRS standards.
• Implemented a customized ERP system for sales, finance, administration, and warehouse management, improving financial reporting and cost accounting.
• Led the budgeting and forecasting process, accurately anticipating future financial needs and aligning them with business strategies.
• Managed the complete financial reporting cycle, including variance analysis, bank reconciliations, and cash flow forecasting, ensuring financial health.
• Secured Sinosure credit facility, negotiated payment terms, and verified import documents, ensuring effective risk management.
• Ensured full compliance with GAAP and IFRS in financial statements and consolidation, reporting to US investors and local bodies across multi-country operations.

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

• Spearheaded the financial analysis and financial modeling of key business projects, optimizing resource allocation and project profitability.
• Directed the company’s budgeting and forecasting processes, enabling more accurate financial planning and cost management.
• Prepared and analyzed financial statements in accordance with IFRS, providing variance analysis on major revenue streams and expenses.
• Managed end-to-end financial reporting, ensuring adherence to IFRS and audit compliance standards.
• Implemented internal controls to ensure proper cost accounting and avoid discrepancies, reducing operational inefficiencies.
• Successfully coordinated with auditors and external consultants, ensuring the timely filing of TDS and corporate tax returns.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Managed multi-country financial operations across UAE, Oman, Bahrain, and Qatar, ensuring adherence to IFRS standards.
• Led the successful implementation of the Finance Module in a customized ERP system, enhancing cost accounting and financial management.
• Handled financial reporting across multiple entities, consolidating reports and ensuring compliance with IFRS.
• Conducted regular financial analysis and variance analysis to monitor financial health and identify areas for improvement.
• Prepared and filed VAT returns for multiple countries, ensuring timely and accurate tax reporting.
• Conducted comprehensive cash flow forecasting, enabling better working capital management and risk management across multiple locations.

Chennai Area, India

• Established and managed the financial reporting, budgeting, and consolidation processes for 106 branches, ensuring GAAP compliance.
• Led variance analysis of branch-wise income, expenses, and financial contributions to the head office, improving financial visibility across the organization.
• Coordinated with bankers to open salary accounts, facilitated the setup of internal controls, and streamlined cost accounting processes across branches.
• Managed the preparation and timely filing of PF, TDS, GST returns, ensuring tax compliance and minimizing tax-related risks.
• Conducted financial modeling to guide budget allocations, setting up a budget control system to ensure cost efficiency.
• Supervised a team of 23 finance staff, setting targets and training them to manage internal controls, financial processes, and audit compliance.

Coimbatore Area, India

Managing four Jr. level executives and two Sr. level executives, Taking care of Accounts & Commercial with additional responsibility of Planning, Procurement, scheduling and Follow-up of Raw Materials for production, Over all checking and auditing the Vouchers and Accounting entries, Budgeting on Capex and Opex, Monthly MIS reporting with trend charts.

Chennai Area, India

• Responsible for Accounting functions of HQ & 45 Branches Like, monthly closing as well as maintenance of all accounting ledgers including daily review of all account reconciliations and journal entries. Lead and manage.
• Around 2,890 Items in Main Store was not tallying with Physical stock and System Stock, Supervised Physical verification, updated the physical stock with system stock and set checkpoints and physical verification plan.

Luanda, Angola

Sole responsible for Government related Accounts for RIOFRIO & ELECTROMAX SA, Sales Tax – preparing sales tax for three provinces – Luanda, Lobito and Benguela, Bank – From Entry level to Reconciliation for Ten Local Currency Banks and Eight USD Banks for Riofrio and Nine Local currency Banks and Nine USD Banks for Electromax, Preparing documents to Bank.

Tiruppur Area, India

Responsible for performing technical and administrative accounting functions of the unit, In-charge of forecasting and budgeting process, Responsible for budget control and costing, Managing the units treasury functions like cash flow forecast, Liaise with auditors and Tax Consultants for Statutory audit and Tax filing, E-filing of monthly VAT return.

Puducherry Area, India

Accounting & Verifying the entry as per GL Account & Cost Centre, Maintaining Purchase and Sales Register, Preparing Form ‘A’ & Declaration for refund Claim Submission, Petty Cash Handling, Maintaining Foreign Inward Register, Exchange Fluctuation and Revaluation for B/S, Reconciliation, Entry and Maintenance of Bank Accounts Both INR & EUR, Coordinating.

Puducherry Area, India

Ledger Maintaining, Core Responsible for Creditors Ledger, Preparing Payment Intimation, Interaction with Head Office regarding Payments, Taking care of Suppliers Payment Distribution, Overall checking of Parking & Posting of Invoices in SAP, Reconciling of Parties Ledger Accounts, Service Bill Accounting and TDS Deductions, Solving the problems involved.

Coimbatore Area, India

Controlling of Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables, Preparing salary for all employees, Dealing with Sales and Income Tax Authorities and preparing tax related reports, Preparation of Cash Register, Bank Register, Journal Register etc, Monitoring day to day sales and purchase activities and its accounting, Preparing Delivery Challan, Co-ordinating.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, General, 62%

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Accounting And Finance, Business Management