SUMMARY OF SKILLS

Strong accounting background Project management

Leadership

Auditing and Investigation Financial analysis Interpersonal

skills

GAAP interpretation Reporting and presentation Budgeting

IT Systems + applications (Office/ Business Proposal

Negotiation

Tax software/Oracle/SAP/

Accounting Software/Case ware)

QUALIFICATIONS

A successful Senior professional with extended experience in the public and

private (including Crown Companies) sectors (Fortune 500), a Bachelor of

Commerce Degree and CGA and CA designation, deep knowledge of full cycle

accounting, periodic accounting and reporting, setting up controls and

procedures, financial analysis and reporting, system design, taxation (both

direct and indirect) and auditing, and an excellent record of exceeding

Senior Management expectations leading to the following selected

accomplishments:

ACHIEVEMENTS

Organized the timely completion of financial statements for a large

institutional client, Norinchukin Bank Japan (Asset value over $5 billion)

under multi-currency horizon - scheduled successive conference calls,

organized activities within our section team members, coached few members

in the preparation of financial statements, maintained healthy follow up

and finally responded to queries for audit and client

Completed financial feasibility study (project supported by CIDA in

accordance with the bi-lateral agreement between Canada and India) of three

fossil fuel based power plants (over 60 -200 MWe generating capacity) based

on different technologies - developed an Excel model to calculate the

payback period, NPV and IRR, including sensitivity calculations for varying

input parameters - study was used as a resource to obtain financial

assistance (~$200 million) for the renovation of an old power plant

Planned AR reconciliation (over 10,000 customers, 3 years reconciliation) -

required freezing of customer accounts worth over $300 million - reported

project status to Senior Management (including Director Marketing and

Director Finance) on a bi-monthly basis - supervised the recruitment

process of CA firms for the project, delegated tasks for teams in regional

offices and branch locations (over 150), guided them in the reconciliation

process and approved adjustment entries

Advised Senior management on sales tax appeals over 200 million $ and also

represented industry towards amendment to sales tax laws resulting into

refund of taxes over millions of $

Managed (single handed) overseas project, financed by CIDA, major power

houses in India, Dalhousie University Nova Scotia and other private firms -

which includes budget (total amount over 3 million $) maintenance,

negotiation with overseas partners (including Power Ministry

representatives of India), legal compliances, preparation of ongoing

project reports and presentation to financiers, project accounting, audit

coordination with major financiers

Introduced suitable accounting software for the research company

(QuickBooks) and adopted all control procedures - designed suitable records

to satisfy SRED (Scientific Research and Experimental Development) claims

($30k/year) in accordance with CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) guidelines

Created fixed asset sub ledger for divisions from consolidated records and

tied to GL balance division wise. Switching sub ledger to new application.

Prepared depreciation procedures in compliance to GAAP for Capital work in

progress worth over million dollar

EDUCATION

Certified General Accountant (CGA) Canada Cost and Works

Accountant (AICWA) India

Chartered Accountant (ACA), India Bachelor of Commerce

(Hons.) India

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Accountant Aug 2012 -

Sep 2013

Biswanath Chakrabarty & Co. Certified General Accountants

. Overall administration for all the group companies

. Conduct field work associated with various clients audits using Case

ware tool

. Tax Specialist using Profile software

. Client administration

. Setup office procedures and manuals

Financial Analyst

Jan 2010 - Aug 2012

Liberte Inc. Canada (Organic food manufacturing and Distribution in NA)

. Review and monitor product returns (magnitude over $ 5 million yearly)

from chain of stores (cross Canada) and setting up control procedures;

reduced returns over half a million $ against last year and budget for

this year

. Management reporting on key factors on weekly/monthly basis

. Setting up various key reports for Senior Management areas like

optimum product distribution and pricing

. Set up procedures for usages of pallets leading to reduction in

wastages across Canada locations

Cost Accountant March

to Dec 2009

Go Transit (Since merged with Metrolinx) Toronto ON

. Compiled periodic financial statements (including notes to accounts),

month end schedules and audit coordination,

. Extracted variance reports on capital and operating budgets from GL

using Oracle financial package

. Compiled year end reports for the Provincial Ministry and responses to

Provincial Sales Tax audit for expenses

. Investigated various internal expense accounts in accordance to

delegation and procedures

. Compiled capital budget (over billion $) for 2009-10 for the new

entity

Senior Accountant Sep 2006 -

Feb 2009

Travelex Canada Ltd., Toronto, Ontario

. Managed Fixed Asset accounting for multi divisional North American

Group Companies (including manual preparation), booking depreciation

as per GAAP, and responding to audit queries

. Reconciled and approved journal entries for Group companies'

transactions and some balance sheet items

. Compiled reports for the Government labour department on payroll

information

. Assisted for compiling periodic Management Information for the Group

Head Quarter

Financial Analyst Jul to Sept 2006 also

Dec 2005 to Feb 2006

Mackenzie Financial Corp., Toronto, Ontario

. Lead a group of analysts to prepare review and analyze financial

statements and performance reports for mutual funds (net asset value

of $100 million - $4 billion) multi-currency, reported portfolio

compliance performance to external bodies

Senior Manager - Offshore Fund Administration April

to Jun 2006

State Street Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario

. Reviewed financial statements and management reports (prepared as per

GAAP under US, IFRS and also Canadian) for large overseas

institutional funds multi-currency environment, supervised five

management staff

Project Administrator and Financial Analyst Aug

2001 - Sep 2005

Greenfield Research Inc., Halifax, Nova Scotia

. Controllership role for the overseas project group (Dalhousie

University) which included the maintenance of full cycle accounting,

audit coordination, three direct reports

. Installed accounting software and internal controls, arranged Sales

Tax return filing and claiming refunds, assisting external agency for

filing corporate tax returns

. Budgeting and tracking variances, periodic progress report

presentation to CIDA and other financing agencies

. Business planning,, feasibility report preparation and presentation,

negotiation with project partners and vendors for the prototype boiler

manufacturing in India, coordination for onsite training course with

various power utilities

Financial Analyst Jan to May

2001

Ministry of Health, Mississauga, Ontario

. Compiled two years funding settlements among various LTC (Long Term

Care) units under the Mississauga jurisdiction, refunded settlement

for over $200 million, assisted in the annual budgeting process

Assistant Vice President 1998 - 2000

Reliance Group of Companies, India (Fortune 500 Company)

. Managed project sales tax, which includes the issuance of tax

exemption certificate (worth $200 million annually) from the ST

Authority for the world's largest oil refinery in Jamnagar, Gujarat,

. Studied various cost/benefit alternatives for inter-company

transactions

. Involved in designing RDBMS output formats according to SAP

specifications for area sales tax

Senior Manager Finance 1985 - 1998

Indian Oil Corporation. Ltd. India (Fortune 500 Company), India

. Managed key activities like, Regional Bank Reconciliation for over 150

bank accounts across the Western Region, Payroll disbursement and tax

remittances for over 3,000 employees located over 100

locations(scattered geographically), AP functions for internal as well

as external vendors numbering over 5,000, Employees (over 15,000)

Retirement Funds (worth over 100 million $) investment(compliance to

Statutory regulations) and accounting, regional Sales Tax payments

(over 100 million $ monthly across five states) and also Sales Tax

Assessment proceedings, AR(average balance of 1.5 billion $)

accounting for over 10,000 customers, invoicing for supplies to

Government customers for monthly billing over 100 million $ and follow

up for their settlement. Direct reporting five management staff who in

turn supervised activities of staff members over 50 numbers.

. Approved payments for all the payments for vendors, Sales Tax, Salary

and closing journal entries for outstanding liabilities, advances,

prepayments, fixed assets, write offs

. Bi-monthly reporting and presentation on status of reconciliation on

AR, Bank reconciliation and Sales Tax disputed cases to the executive

Directors

. Coordinated for month and year end activities for the above functions

which included replies to auditors, external, internal and also

Government Auditors

. Advised Senior Management on legal issues and legal cases on sales tax

and excise matter

. Represented finance member for various negotiation with outside

agencies for ongoing tenders like, finalizing land purchases, zonal

contract for hauling fuel oils, ongoing capital projects worth over

millions of $

. Appraised Annual Performance for direct reports and also reviewed that

for staff members

. Prepared periodic financial statements(in accordance to Generally

Accepted Accounting Principle and other Statutory regulations), notes

to accounts and MIS for regional finance operations and reported to

Head Office

. Maintained regional revenue budget under Activity Based Costing which

includes, designing budget formats, coaching field managers,

compilation of preliminary data, presenting to management committee

for review and approval, circulating approved budget to cost centre

managers, sending cost reports and variances to cost centers,

collecting reasons for variances, coordinating for revision in the

original budget numbers and arranging for submission of revised

budgets

. Maintained production accounts for lubricants (annual turnover over 70

million $) which includes, raw material costing (standard costing ),

arrangement for cost of finished goods, margin variance analysis,

settlement of the variances with Government authorities

. Involved in system implementation under main frame environment for

areas payroll and lubricant production accounts; which includes

designing output formats, building controls in the output statements,

delegating work under changed environment among various work groups in

locations and regional office both.

. Faculty for subjects finance, taxation and accounting for every sphere

of employees including Senior Management

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