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Career synopsis
Overall exposure in Finance, Management accounting and ERP implementation in India and the Middle East in Oil & Gas, Construction, Engineering & Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Retail & Environment Consultancy companies of Repute.
Major Areas of Work Covered;
1.Financial Accounting/Auditing of Construction Companies with EPC contracts in
addition to other sector companies especially Oil & Gas Sector.
2.Commercial Negotiation & Vetting of Contracts of Construction contracts from financial and to some extent legal point of view. Vetting of Joint Venture Agreements, Saudi Aramco Rig Contracts
3.Project Costing of Contracts, Jobs, Products & its Actual Vs. Budget Variance Analysis.
4.Costing of Rigs & its Capitalization
5.Financial Analysis, Forecasting and Budgeting including ABP and SBP
6. Bank Dealing for Fund Arrangement & negotiations.
7. Investment Evaluation & Joint venture Accounting
8. Engineering EPC Accounting & Costing for Bidding.
9. ERP implementation- Various Packages
Professional experience (Major)
SNC Lavalin Saudi Arabia Co Ltd - Leading EPC company – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Jan 2014 till Date.
Presently working for Leading Canadian Construction Company of World
Repute in Oil & Gas and various other sectors. Handling 6 companies &
their accounts, audit, taxation including filing of returns to Zakat department.
Petrofac Saudi Arabia Co Ltd - Leading EPC company – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – August 2012 till December 2012.
(Reputed EPC group in construction in oil and gas sector,)
Financial Accounting
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Cash Management
MIS Reporting – Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Reporting
Providing support to Project Management Teams in important Issues
Taxation – Zakat Tax Declaration & Withholding Tax Requirements.
Audit – Tax and Financial
Finalization of Accounts
Khalid Ali Alturki & Sons (Alturki Group) – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(Reputed group in construction, building materials, oil and gas, retail, environmental consultancy, telecommunication, industrial & real estate sectors.)
A)Finance Manager (Corporate Finance & Investment Dept.) – Sept 2010- June 2012 till date
Dealing with Banks on fixing up the limits, negotiations, obtaining guarantees, bid bonds, performance bonds for subsidiaries
Joint venture study, NDA review, MOU review & due diligence study
Involved in valuation for additional investment
Monthly financial analysis of industrial sector & Oil and gas(Inma Trading, Inma Steel & Inma Pallets, Nabors Drilling Saudi Arabia)
Monthly financial analysis of information and communication technology sector (i2 Companies Egypt, DTR Group Bahrain, Itsalat International Marketing, KSA)
Budgeting for the Group
Special Analysis Reports as required by the management.
Accounting and Audit of some of subsidiaries
Egypt Accounts reporting and support for consolidation at HO level
Presentation support for Subsidiaries financials and budget
Visit to sector companies and understand operations for analysis purpose
South Korea liaison office initial setup support to Deloitte, Korea
Special internal audit assignments
Authorizing documents related to the funds outflow for industrial sector companies
Reporting on Investment department activities
Involved in Group Monthly Reporting package
B)Finance Manager – April 2009 to August 2010 – AES International Consultants –
Bahrain (Subsidiary of Alturki Group)
Financial Accounting – Operations at Bahrain, Qatar, Abu-Dhabi, Saudi Arabia.
Monthly Financial Reporting & Administration.
Dealing with Banks (HSBC)
Budget preparation for AES International
Opening of HSBC Bank accounts at Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and dealing with HSBC Bahrain on banking matters
Funds requirement request to the corporate & Payroll processing
Providing reports to the Managing Director and Regional General Managers across the globe as and when required.
Implementation of Baan ERP and Project status summary report system.
Audit of accounts for Bahrain with consolidation of Canadian accounts into it under IFRS.
Audit of accounts of AES-Saudi Arabia
Attending conference call meetings with other fellow entities in the Group.
Parker Drilling Company Limited – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(United States Joint venture with Al-Rushaid Group – Oil Drilling Company, Contractor of Saudi Aramco)
Financial controller – March 2007 to March 2009
Control of Finance and Accounts
Budgeting & Variance Analysis.
Dealing with Banks Including monitoring Credit Arrangements
Rig Cost Capitalization
Rig wise operation analysis & Costing
Funds flow and Cash Flow
Management Reporting – Daily Cash flow, Monthly Analysis
System Implementation & Audit of accounts.
Habib Ali Awachi Construction & Contracting Group – Kingdom of Bahrain
(Reputed group in the construction, commercial & contracting, sweet water processing & manpower supply)
Financial controller – October 2003 to February 2007
Central Treasury Management – Banks dealing
Costing of Projects, Support Estimation & Marketing in Bidding of Projects.
Contract documents vetting, Negotiation of contracts along with marketing with clients.
Project and working capital finance(Banks )
Business/Project feasibility studies & Budgeting.
Inter unit financial discipline & also Inter site financial discipline.
Quarterly and annual financial accounts
Periodical financial review project wise & total
Corporate Investment decisions
Development of long range plans for strategic business decisions
Plan Performance reviews based on financial and non-financial KPIs’.
Monthly MIS reviews
Business/Project feasibility studies
ERP initiatives-steering and monitoring(Diamond ERP System)
Systems reviews and new system implementation
Cost Control of materials, Maintenance workshop
Providing Financial Statements and Projections for submission to Banks
Steered system process for control of operations of the group for strategy growth.
Successful implementation of mini ERP, 24 hour system.
Documentation, implementation of Integrated Management System (IMS) as part of ISO
Improved MIS and regularity of monitoring for control
Centre Point Group (Home Centre Group) – State of Qatar
(Reputed Retail Company engaged in trading in Baby items (Baby Shop), Shoes & foot wear (Shoe mart), cloth items (Splash), Gift articles (Lifestyle) & Home items (Home Centre))
Finance & Administration manager - 2001 to 2003
Joint responsibility for operations with Managing director and individually in his absence
Working Capital Control – Inventory analysis on weekly/monthly basis and its movements. Capitalization of the cost before starting of operations.
Involved in day to day Banking activities and remittance to head office in Dubai
MIS and Accounts – Weekly sales analysis, Monthly Profit and loss analysis, Variance analysis. Finalization of 6 companies Accounts and Audit.
Involved in annual planning, budgeting and capital control activities for projects
Involved in vital Decision making for the company in various areas of Administration, Systems and Retail Marketing.
Financial control of Trading operations and achieved profitability and growth in both the years more than the plan.
MIS on time to HO at Dubai with detailed analysis.
Godrej Industries Limited, Mumbai, India
(Joint venture with GE, United States of America - The Group has a turnover of more than USD 2 billion. Worked for the Precision Equipment Division – a division dealing in EPC, defence contracts and manufacturing of Capital Equipment’s for Oil companies of repute such as IOCL, HPCL, BPCL, and Reliance)
Head – Divisional Finance & Accounts – 1993 to 2000
Worked at Corporate Accounts for 2 years in setting up MIS System of the company with 8 divisions. Last 5 years worked at Division as Head – Finance & Accounts.
Occupied with Costing of Projects including EPC contracts. Supports the Estimation & Marketing Team on decision on bidding of projects & negotiation with clients.
Taken a Major lead in the divisionalisation of Accounts with pilot project handled successfully.
Overall control of Finance and Accounts of the Division including Cash Flow
Involved in TQM process (Guide: Dr. Reddy of Ex-Ford, USA) to improve results.
Implemented of BAAN finance (ERP package) and completed one cycle
Evaluation of systems as a management tool at Singapore
Involved in assisting the statutory audit within deadlines
Reported MIS – Weekly and Monthly to the management
Involved in preparation of Annual and Strategic plans and implementation.
Working Capital Control – Analysis of inventory, debtors, advances and creditors
Other experiences in India
Involved with accounts, dealing with banks & taxation matters, for the Companies and Directors and co-ordination with the auditors for statutory and tax audits.
Industrial Oxygen Company Ltd – Management Accountant
Magatul Industries Ltd – Manager – Finance and Accounts
Gujarat Synthwood Limited, Atul, Gujarat - Accounts executive
Texind Corporation Private Limited, Mumbai - Accounts officer
B. P. Jain & Co – Audit Firm (Auditors of Essar Group- Audit Training
Training and development
Strategy & Annual Business Planning
Treasury Management
MIS system Development
Costing System Development
TQM conducted by Dr.Reddy of Ex- Ford Motors Company.
Effective Personnel Productivity course by US school of Management at Godrej
ERP – BaaN Training, Diamond Systems, Bussoft, Brio, Tally Accounting software
MS Office : Word, Excel, PowerPoint
ISO Management Representative & Auditor Training by RWTUV
Qualifications
Professional
ACA – Associate Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (1988)
ACMA (ICWAI) – Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India (1987)
Academic
Bachelor of Commerce, Govt. Arts College CBE, Madras University, India
Personal information
Date of Birth/Place
19th January 1962/ Coimbatore
Permanent Address
302, Trimurti Apartments,
Trimurti Marg, Near St. Mary’s School
Mulund (W), Mumbai – 400 080
Maharashtra, India
Passport No
Z2242054
Issue date – 05/03/2013 Expiry date – 04/03/2023