Manager Assistant

Resume of

SHANMUGA SUNDARAM PARAMASIVAM

No:*/*, P.E.Koil Tank Street, Ayanavaram, Chennai 600 023

Ph: +91-988*******, Email: ************@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

As a Food and beverages controller and cost controller, always looking for avenues to improve cost

efficiency in the organization, to maximize outlets’ profitability by minimizing food wastage/

pilferage, to produce informative Food & Beverage Cost Analysis

CAREER PROFILE

10+ years of experience as Food and Beverage Controller and Cost Accountant/Controller. Having

been working in hotel industry since 1997, in India and Papua New Guinea

2004 – 2011 Lamana Hotel, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

A hotel with 115 rooms, 4 apartments, 6 conference rooms, restaurant,

bar, clubs, casino, 500+ employees

Worked as F&B Controller, reporting to GM

2000 – 2004 GRT Grand, Chennai, India

A hotel with 135 rooms, 4 restaurants, 8 conference rooms, bar, 300+

employees

Worked as F&B Controller, reporting to GM

1999 Grand Bay Sheraton, Vizag, India

A hotel with 120 rooms, 4 restaurants, 5 conference rooms

Worked as Accounts Assistant in F&B Control Dept, reporting to FC

1997 – 1998 The Grand Orient, Chennai, India

A hotel with 101 rooms, 3 restaurants, 3 conference rooms

Worked as Assistant F&B Controller, reporting to FC & GM

1994 – 1997 Tatia & Co, Share Broker, Chennai, India

Accounts Assistant; reporting to Accounts Manager

WORK EXPERIENCE (Hotel industry companies)

• Check the Daily Revenue report

• Prepare F&B Costing report and submit to the FC, GM and Executive Chef

• Monthly MIS reports for FC’s verification

• Verifying Issues Register, monitor food and beverage stock levels

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Resume of

SHANMUGA SUNDARAM PARAMASIVAM

No:5/3, P.E.Koil Tank Street, Ayanavaram, Chennai 600 023

Ph: +91-988*******, Email: ************@*****.***

• Spot-checking, to verify physical stock in the store and outlets against system stock

• Verifying suppliers’ invoices to ensure the prices and quantities are as per the

Purchase Order

• Preparing Menu costing for every new menu item and reviewing the costs regularly

• Conducting Yield testing and Portion control in the kitchen every month

• Collecting the information on prices from other hotels and compare with our prices

• Conducting spot-checks at outlets to ensure compliance with cash bill handling

procedures

• Monitoring store stock level closely to ensure Minimum stock is maintained

• Preparing Monthly reports of F&B costing, Management food consumption, kitchen

wastage etc

• Reviewing the Daily Beverage inventory reconciliations and preparing variance

reports

• Carry out Market Survey regularly to ensure the selection of the best supplier

• Bill Auditing and Bar inventory

• Head and plate counting for Banquets Functions

• Pre-costing for Functions Menus for Executive Chef’s Review

ACHIEVEMENTS:

At Lamana Hotel

Achieved substantial reduction in cost percentage for Food as well as Beverage

Introduced an effective monitoring system for inventory

Have been instrumental in the successful changeover of hotel software (‘Hotel XL’ software

to ‘Guest Centrix’)

At GRT Grand Hotel

Was awarded with Grade promotion

At Grand Bay Hotel

On my own interest, I learned about Night Auditing and Front Office Functions and so I was

assigned this position whenever required

With the short period of 8 months at Grand Bay Hotel, I got conversant with Standard Food

& Beverage Control procedures of 5 STAR Hotels

At Grand Orient Hotel

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Resume of

SHANMUGA SUNDARAM PARAMASIVAM

No:5/3, P.E.Koil Tank Street, Ayanavaram, Chennai 600 023

Ph: +91-988*******, Email: ************@*****.***

Started as a Cashier and worked in that role for 3 months. In appreciation for the Good

performance in that role and considering my skills and aptitude, Management transferred me

to the F&B Controls Department to assist the F&B controller.

WORK EXPERIENCE (Share-broker firm)

• Register Share Transfers in the Share register of the companies

• Maintain the Client Account

• Book keeping

• Follow up Debtors for payments

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

1994 - Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com.), Madras University, India

COMPUTER SKILLS / EXPOSURE

MS Word, MS Excel, Powerpoint, Emails, network environment

Have worked in the following hotel software programs:

Guest Centrix of CMS Hospitality, Australia

Hotel Excel of CMS Hospitality, Australia

Computer Lodging System (CLS&POS) of ITC Group Of Hotels, India

Fortune Enterprise of IDS, Bangalore, India

HMS(Hotel Management system) of Computer Cartel, Chennai, India

Have worked in following accounting software programs:

Attache, Australia

MYOB, Australia

IDS, India

PERSONAL DATA

Given name : Shanmuga Sundaram

Surname : Paramasivam

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Resume of

SHANMUGA SUNDARAM PARAMASIVAM

No:5/3, P.E.Koil Tank Street, Ayanavaram, Chennai 600 023

Ph: +91-988*******, Email: ************@*****.***

Date of birth : 15 June 1972

Languages known : English, Tamil & Telugu

REFERENCES

Mr. Dakshinamoorthy

Credit Manager

Chola Sheraton Hotel

Chennai – 600 004

Ph: +91-44-281*****

Mr. Yiannis Nicolaou

General Manager

Lamana Hotel, Port Moresby, PNG

Ph: +675-*******

Email: *******@******.***.**

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