Accounting Office Staff

NANU PILLAI MURALI

+971-**-******* or +*** 055-*******

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

I am a self-motivated finance professional with over 28 years of experience.

Experience in handling a long term strategic and operational projects for new software implementation and existing system enhancement. Identification of commitment and expenditure of the group with a view to reduce Group’s risk exposure and control cost and to recommend ways to carry out the same.

Hands on experience in Oracle Financials with Accounts payable, Accounts receivable and General ledger. Ability to work under pressure and strong interpersonal skill.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Emirates Airlines, Dubai, UAE

Finance Controller (from Jan 2012 to Aug 2020) in Financial Reporting & Accounting Dept

Ensure quality in financial accounting is maintained as per corporate financial policy through a process of general ledger review and reconciliation.

Analytical review and reporting of business related balance sheet, expenditure and P&L accounts on regular and timely basis. Budgeting and forecasting for the department through proper planning, co-ordinating and administering the budget process to ensure quality of budget and target are met.

Delegate, manage and monitor subordinate performance for the preparation of monthly and yearly closing activities and ensure true and fair reflection of accounts, also ensure monthly closing is done within the set deadlines.

Identify and Implement process change, focus upon better controls and covering risks involved in all the areas like revenue leakage, system bugs and accounting issues. Analyse & recommend new process with a way forward.

Provide new system requirements or enhance existing system to the IT and business. Interact with external vendor to finalise the system requirements and design. Organise proper system testing & implement agreed procedure.

Automation of balance sheet nominal through the implementation of a various nominal, sub-nominal and foreign currency or base currency reconciliation.

Liaising Internal or external Auditors for the clarification of review process, month-end or year-end closing activities.

Arrange regular meeting or power point presentation to the various stakeholders like Business / Accounts payable / Accounts receivables / Credit controls and IT for streamlining existing process or implementing new process or escalating high risk areas.

Finance Officer (from Aug 2004 to Dec 2011) - in Financial Reporting & Accounting Dept

Preparation of monthly and yearly closing activities and ensure that the closing is done within the set deadlines to meet the department objective.

Pre-closing review of P & L nominal to ensure that the balance reflect the true status of the account and also review of Accounts payables, Accounts receivables, Petty cash, Payroll and receipting entries.

Analyse and justify variance between current and previous month and previous quarter’s balance. The review should also focus on the possibility of risks of revenue leakage and corrective action required within deadlines Undertake quarterly preparation financial statements lead schedules follow up with various sections on disclosures such as, Debtors and Creditors, provision for doubtful debts. Define chart of accounts and security rules.

Liaise with the external, internal and Government Auditors and ensure that queries are responded to promptly and with adequate explanation of controls available.

Accounts Payable Supervisor (from Aug 1998 to Jul 2004) - in the Accounts Payable.

Processing all contract related invoices in the areas of Construction, Maintenance, IT Consultancy, Software and Hardware, Facilities, Vehicle hiring, EK ENG, Clearing and Forwarding and Labour supply etc.

Scrutinise and identify all the terms and conditions of the signed contracts and request them to do the necessary changes through contract addendum. Ensuring release of retention and Bank guarantees based on practical completion certificate.

Preparing and reviewing the monthly accruals and discussing with the user department head to ensure that the amount is not exceeding from the actual monthly invoice.

From July 1991 to June 1997:-

Worked in Bahrain as a Senior Accountant with Jawad Groups and Group of Hotels

Finalisation of accounts and preparation of Management Information Reports.

Dealing with the Auditors, Adopt & implement necessary audit recommendations.

Handling of Accounts Payable, Receivables, Payrolls and Inventory control.

Delegate and Managed around 40 numbers of Cashier’s (including office staff) for their day to day working activities & Administration of the office

Handling of Petty cash, Sales collection cash, payrolls and distribution of salary etc.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Have received 14 awards from Emirates Airlines and some of the key achievements are:

In appreciation for being instrumental in a number of operational new systems implementation directly affecting the business. Independently proposed the new process flow, identified the risk of revenue leakage, accounting gap, system bugs, data integrity.

In-depth review of business tour files has facilitated in developing a strategy to significantly improve tour file accounting and reconciliation by identifying process flaws and plugging revenue leakages.

Review of various key accounts of balance sheet clearing accounts, expenses and Profit and loss make sure that the balance are correct. Instilling quality in the monthly, Quarterly and annual closing of books by an in-depth quality reviews and analysis.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

B.Com from University of Kerala in 1991 with Costing as optional and Accountancy, Banking,

Auditing, Economics, Statistics and Business Organisation etc. as other subjects.

M.com (previous) completed from University of Kerala in 1992.

TECHNOLOGY

Hands on experience in various in-house (Emirates) and external vendors systems:

Oracle Financials – Financial accounting system modules

Master Procurement control – Purchase inventory and payments.

Business systems: OASIS, OCEAN, EBMS, EMS, Derwent and LEMAX

Reconciliation systems: HACS and Transaction Reconciliation Activity Control Kit

Well versed with Excel and Word and fair working knowledge of Power Point

Worked on the major systems implementation and enhancement to the Holidays systems

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth

Nationality

Marital status

UAE Driving License

UAE Visa status

10 – March – 1967

Indian

Married

Light vehicles license

Sponsorship under Emirates Airline will end on 11-nov-2020

Remarks

Due to the current COVID-19 situation, job has been redundant.

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