Designing and implementing systems & procedures; supervising and preparation of financial statements & annual reports. Financial ManagementLooking after finance functions involving determining financial objectives, designing & implementing systems, policies & procedures to facilitate internal financial controls.Formulating need-based business strategies for maximizing profitability & revenue generation & realize organizational goals.Developing and maintaining adequate internal control system.Optimum utilisation of resources.Fund ManagementSupervising and monitoring Bills Payable, Accounts Payable & Receivable, General Ledger, and Fund Deployment/utilization.Liaising with banks for rising fund-based and non-fund based financial assistance for any new projects. Taxation/ Auditing Preparing and finalizing statutory/tax audits with auditors and ensuring all compliances under the regulatory acts and other statutory bodies.Interfacing with Tax authorities for timely filing of TDS, Service tax returns, tax assessments, exemption related benefits, registrations.Commercial Functions Monitoring collections, and payments thereby ensuring the maintenance of adequate working capital.Holding negotiations for direct payment, documentation through bank with regard to Import/ Export operations.Statutory Compliance/ DocumentationEnsuring compliance to the govt. rules and regulations as laid down by statutory authorities' viz. IT dept, Customs and Excise department etc for assessment and filling Service and Income Tax returns.Liaising with statutory / internal auditors etc for timely completion of audits & implementing audit observations.Quality Management SystemHandling the functions of MRPreparing quality management documents in consultation with advisorsConducting of internal audits/ MRM

Major AttainmentsFunctioning as overall Head of Finance, leading team of 9 employees (Accounts department).Involved in maintaining books of accounts and records preparation of periodic and annual financial statements as per requirements of Companies Act, Income Tax Act. Managed the implementation of proper accounting, financial and other control systems in all areas of operations of the companies.Ensured and maintained compliance of various statutory laws such as Company Law, Income Tax, Sales Tax, service tax and other laws to the extent applicable to the Companies.Initiated hedging of foreign exchange operations to minimise exchange losses and to cash on opportunities, minimise cost of imports.

Finance and Accounts-Geo Seafoods, CochinThe Career Path

Major AttainmentsWorked on Statutory and Tax Audits of various corporate organisations (Kerala; at the time of articleship.Initiated and played key role in automation of accounts in sea foods division (during 1995) and in NBFC (during 2001) selection of software/ soft ware developers and buying of hardware etc. This has helped in total control and aided for the growth of both the companies.