Joseph Sargunam
Tel: ******** /******** Email: *********@*****.***
Meticulous and highly accomplished professional with over 30 years of hands-on experience in Accounting, Payroll, Budgeting, Cost Control, Administration, Material Stores Management, Maintenance, Housekeeping and Internal and External Security.
Result oriented decisive leader to maintain high quality standards to meet challenges. Persuasive communicator with well-developed analytical skills. Expertise in maintaining cordial relations with internal and external clients. Adept at working in high-pressure environments with strict deadlines and multiple deliverables. Implement best practices that consistently deliver outstanding results.
Strategic Administration Planning Bank Reconciliation
Debtors management Material Management
Plant & tools Management Maintenance/Security & House Keeping
Visionary Leadership Payroll Preparations & Allocations
Budgeting & Implementations Fixed Asset Management
Statutory Compliance Finalization of Accounts
Formulated long term/short term goals to achieve targets of the company within agreed timelines.
Consolidated Stock reconciliation of warehouses on monthly basis.
Developed strategies & introduced systems to achieve organizational goals.
Streamlined various process to ensure cost were reduced drastically company wide.
Developed an Access application for controls & for monitoring purposes.
Senior Accountant – Senior Administrator (Reporting to CFO)
Al Manjara Joinery - Wood Work Factory/Office Feb 2017 till Date
Supervision of day-to-day accounts’ and payroll of the company.
Responsible for factory machinery & tools maintenance & services.
Finalization of Accounts-Variance analysis.
Monitoring out going finish goods and incoming raw materials.
Undertaking and monitoring Staff, Worker & driver allocations & welfare.
Preparation of project wise materials, tools & manpower supply analysis.
Ensuring a smooth administration operation in Factory and office.
Timely payment to suppliers and supplier reconciliations.
Managing the Materials & Chemicals stores/stocks.
Preparation of cash flow statements to ensure adequate cash are available for day to day operations.
Preparation of Staff & worker leave schedules.
Responsible for preparation of Bank reconciliation.
Preparation of Budgets, analysis for cost control.
In charge for internal & external security staff.
Ensure invoicing and collection from debtors within the credit period and prompt follow-up.
Managing internal & external plants, tools, labour hire and allocations.
Preparing and sending daily, weekly and monthly MIS reports and monthly P/L.
Senior Accountant (Reporting to Finance Manager)
Gulf Contracting Company, Qatar June 1996 To Feb 2017
Arranging of Bank finance, Bank Guarantee, LTR
Preparing timely payment to suppliers and supplier reconciliation.
Preparing cash flow statements to ensure adequate cash are available for day to day operations
Ensuring sales cash and cheques are deposited in bank the very next working day
Undertaking Bank reconciliations
Preparing Budgets, analysis and managing cost control
Ensuring invoicing and collection from debtors are within the credit period and prompt follow-up
Preparing and sending daily, weekly and monthly MIS reports and monthly P/L
Monitoring stock inward and ensuring daily dispatch as per schedule
Planning, supervising deliveries and other logistics for both incoming and outgoing.
Developed an Access application to maintain advance accounts viz., wages, salaries & other advance accounts
Monitoring purchase requisitions and Invoicing process
Preparation of MIS on stock for planning and procurement.
Weekly stocktaking & reconciliations, Preparations of reports.
Finalising Accounts-Preparation of Trial Balance P/L Account, Balance Sheet.
Accounts/Administration Executive (Reporting to Chief Financial Controller in Head office)
John Keells Holdings – Keells Super, Sri Lanka Feb 1992 to June 1996
Head of Administration & Accounts for the Supermarket.
Head of staff & worker welfare, Housekeeping & transport.
Maintaining documentation of expense, receipts and accounts as per the company policy.
Timely payment to international suppliers and maintaining supplier reconciliation.
Monitoring of cash & credit collections on POS Machines, deposits and reconciliations.
Dealing with local banks regarding credit & debit cards machines & maintenance contracts.
In charge for gift vouchers, complement vouchers & promotional gifts.
Maintaining, disbursing and controlling petty cash in the office.
Responsible for payroll preparation and salary disbursement.
Monitoring security staff.
Office & supermarket machineries maintenance & upkeep.
Preparing daily collection reports for cash & credit purchases.
Preparing and sending daily, weekly and monthly reports to directors.
Monitoring stock inward/outwards and ensuring daily dispatch as per schedule.
Planning & supervising deliveries and other logistics both incoming & outgoing
Accountable for the consolidation of stock reconciliation of warehouses store.
Monitoring purchase requisitions for importing goods based on reorder level.
Monitoring advertisement contracts, payments & collections.
Cost Accountant/Chief Cashier (Reporting to Chief Accountant)
Ceylon Synthetic Textile Mills Ltd Oct 1988 to Feb 1992
Receipt of sales collection cash and day-to-day accounting work including banking.
Accountable for Bank reconciliation.
Factory machineries & tools maintenance & upkeep.
Undertaking cost control, monitoring income and expenditure, various budget preparation.
Updated and processed payments made through petty cash & credit.
Preparing salaries to employees and ensuring salary release in completed by month end
Ensuring Stock of Units and spares in stock register.
Monitoring stock count & Preparing stock reconciliations.
In charge for show room cash & credit sales & returns.
Planning & supervising deliveries & other logistics both incoming & outgoing.
Ensuring submission of tax reports to local authorities on timely manner.
Accountable for preparation of purchase requisition and purchase order.
Maintaining and reporting stock of all franchisees to the management.
Preparing work & time schedules for factory staff & workers.
Supervising on verification and scrutinizing of credit purchase forms and documents.
Ensuring cash & cheques deposits on time & Interacting with customers for payments & collections.
Following up on dishonoured cheques and repayments.
Kannan Chemicals Industries Ltd.
Audit/Sales/Stores in charge (Reporting to the Owner/Directors) Jan 1988 – Oct 1988
Finalizing accounts and stock balance.
Responsible for cash & credit sales / returns.
In charge for transport, security, stores & staff/worker allocations.
Monitoring show room, office & stores maintenance & housekeeping.
In charge for security guards.
Salary & Wages payments & reconciliations.
Bachelor of Arts (Dis.) – St. Xavier College – (India)
H.S.C.C Examination – 1987 (India), MDT Hindu College
S.S.L.C. Examination – 1985 (India), Schaffter Higher Secondary School
G.C.E Ordinary Level – 1984 (Sri Lanka), Wesley College
Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Advance XL & Advance Access Year 1997 (Qatar)
Accounting software: NCR, Mentor & Coins
Customer relations and supplier development programmer – Qatar
Underwent gust relations & development training – Sri Lanka
Nationality: Sri Lanka
Languages: Tamil, English, Sinhala, Hindi & Malayalam.
Passport: N5235410 Valid up to 21/07/2024
Qatari ID: 267********
Qatari Driving license: valid up to 22/01/2021
Visa: Transferable