Credit Controller with Diverse UAE Experience

G. Santosh Kumar

UAE: Dubai

Mobile: +971-**-*******

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Summary

I would like to obtain a position as an integral team-player where I can maximize my Maintenance Planner, Procurement & Accounting skills & experience in a challenging environment to achieve corporate goals. I am very Keen on taking my skills to the next level which will enable me to provide quality & development in a growth oriented and progressive role given my years of experience I believe I can make a significant contribution to organization.

Skills:

Expert & advance user in Microsoft Office - Word / Excel / PowerPoint

Time Management – Willing to and have the ability to work under pressure & meet deadlines where and when required.

Strong Verbal Communication skills.

Process Improvement and Training skills.

Education:

Master of Commerce (M.com) from Osmania University in the year 1994.

Bachelor of Commerce (B.com) from Osmania University in the year 1992.

Key Achievements:

Quality Assurance.

Training and up skilling colleagues when and as required.

Nominated Employee of the month on two occasions.

Professional Experience:

July 2023 to Till date – Activpayroll Working as Payroll Specialist

Working with Activpayroll handling payroll for 13 UK companies for altogether 1152 Employees.

Process payroll for employees on a regular basis monthly.

Once received input sheet and payroll information.Enternming data and payroll information in the software.

Calculating salaries, back pays, benefits, tax deductions, commissions, bonus, expenses, pension, maternity schedules, etc.

Performing account balance and payroll reconciliations

Maintaining accurate records of payroll documentation and transactions

Generate payroll reports once approved by team lead will upload reports to client.

Handle employee inquiries and resolve pay-related issues.

Prepare and distribute pay slips

Maintenance Junior Planner Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA) – Al Taweelah, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

June 2015 – June 2023

Maintenance Scheduling and Coordination:

Played a key role in major and minor outage planning, delivering projects on time and within budget using MS Project & SAP PM.

Led cross-functional collaboration with Operations, Procurement, and OEMs to ensure smooth and compliant outage executions.

Ensured regulatory compliance & safety standards while supporting shutdowns & risk assessments.

Managed spare part logistics, procurement submissions, and team coordination for smooth operation continuity.

Coordinated with maintenance technicians, production teams, and external vendors to ensure the timely execution of planned maintenance activities.

Planned and co ordinate major and minor maintenance activities by processing work orders to completion and determining priority scope of work, start and completion dates, manpower, materials, and special resources requirements.

Contractor management for the planned and unplanned outages are effectively tracked with

records of trainings and gate pass to execute the works in safe and efficient manner.

Training records for the employee & contractor are monitored for safe operations.

Support outage team with Emergency response organization to ensure safe, reliable, and

continued operations.

Ensuring timely and accurate preparation of reports and invoices in accordance with company

policy, government regulations, and contract requirements.

Maintained accurate records of equipment specifications, maintenance histories, and inventory levels of spare parts in a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

Collaborated with procurement teams to ensure the availability of critical spares parts & also optimize spare parts inventory, resulting in a 20% reduction in stockouts and improved repair turnaround time.

Review equipment stocks to keep levels by raising MMAF and continually review components for wear & tear and determine whether spare parts and quantities are sufficient to maintain equipment for the plant areas.

Creating MMAF in SAP as per end users & also tracking the MMAF (Material master authorization form) provided monthly status dashboard.

Creating Purchase requisition in SAP material maintenance module & send for approvals.

Involved with supply chain management from RFQ to PO issues & GRN.

Coordinated new vendors introduction & plant familiarization for Power Plant

Mobilizing service providers on time to address the plant requirements in line with EHS requirements

Projected the required cash flows, accruals, reviewing statement of accounts clearing outstanding invoices from the service providers, ensured the payment due dates were adhered.

Involvement in the invoice and payment process of vendors.

Evaluating the quotes as per the specifications and finalization of quotes with area approvals as per standard operating procedure.

Assigning the Min/max levels, ROP, criticality criteria & Safety stock as per Standard Maintenance Planning procedure

Coordinated & communicated with maintenance end users to get additional details for new materials

Coordinate with Area engineers for Quality inspection once materials are received

Ensure compliance to HSES & QAQC policies and procedures as applicable

Warehouse Management:

Cataloguing & Maintaining standards as per global data dictionary class & characteristics using EOTD dictionary as per UNSPSC standards for spares (Electrical, Mechanical & Control Instrumentation spares) of Power and Desalination of 2300MW installed Capacity

Updating of master data in a plant maintenance module.

Collecting information such as name plate details during project phase with few material specs available for ordering.

Hands on experience in refresh taxonomy for the Noun, modifier and attributes spares. Data entry in tables as per Noun, Modifier and multiple attributes templates.

Total of 200 K items cleansing & standardization completed & successfully integrated in SAP as well. Reviewed 3101 material along with team of 4 in Jebel Ali site & identified correct duplicate material are 1280 worth of 2.09 M USD which need further assessment. Reviewed 4174 material along with team of 3 in Taweelah site & identified correct duplicate material are 2246 worth of 2.413 M USD.

Identified OEM part # details for 537 materials which have only vendor part #.

Identified correct OEM part details for 995 materials whose part details are in correct / not available.

Identified correct Noun-Modifiers for 129 materials whose present Noun-Modifiers were wrong.

Advised management what is the High-cost difference between Vendors supplied item & OEM supplied items.

Enriched the materials database visual communication collected & uploaded in SAP which is very much useful for the users.

Day-to-day physical receipt of materials, create material no’s tag them & place them in proper location.

Physically issuing materials and updating them in the SAP system to match.

Maintain the Stock inventory, Sustaining a high level of Customer support to both internal users and

external suppliers.

Maintain good relationship with warehouse team leader, supervisor, inter departments and different facilities of EGA.

Entering all received materials with proper traceability,

March 2006 to Feb 2015 – Supreme Group – Dubai – Main supplier for Fuel, Logistics, Food & Beverage and other operational services to military servicemen in Afghanistan for over 20 countries.

Accounts Officer:

Responsible for handling Accounts Receivables for (UK Ministry of Defence Business) Kabul, Kuwait, Oman, Bosnia, Iraq, Ascension & Falkland.

Maintenance of customer accounts, billing, invoices charged and dispatched on time.

Review Debtors collection reports ascertained the status of collection and balance outstanding, with the financial controller.

Ensured Receivable accounts are reconciled & updated. Generating A/R ageing reports on a weekly basis.

Professionally Investigated circumstances of non-payment, negotiated and resolved conflicts.

Managed Month End & Year End closing of Accounts Receivables.

Responsible for handling Accounts payable, checking of supplier invoices as per company polices, posting of supplier invoices in the right vendor code and processing payments to suppliers as per company’s protocol.

Reconciliation and submission of supplier accounts on monthly basis to management.

Managing petty cash entries weekly for 7 locations & cash reconciliation on weekly basis

Weekly Bank reconciliations and posting of Intercompany charges to the correct General Ledger Codes on monthly basis.

Responsible for month end & year-end closings alongside while training and supervising other staff.

Involved in quarterly audit by providing all the necessary documents to the Auditors.

December 1999 to February 2006 – As Finance Assistant - The Jumeirah Beach Hotel-(Dubai Holding)

Finance Assistant-Accounts Receivable, responsible for the daily credit card sales reconciliation.

Assisting with debtors invoicing and collection, internal and external financial audits.

Handling corporate company’ accounts for UAE & GCC countries.

Handling Government, Ministries, Schools & University Accounts.

Preparing per forma invoices and following up on pre-payment schedules.

Preparing group final invoices and maintaining actual revenues earned per group.

Maintain the lowest level of bad debts.

Delivered excellent communication skills to every valued customer and professional interaction with my colleagues on a day-to-day basis.

Training colleagues in Accounts Receivable and collection according to company guidelines.

Able to handle and identify all types’ foreign currencies.

Professional Training in Jumeirah International Group-(Dubai Holding)

Professional telephonic skills to interact with guests/Customers

Fire & Safety training & Performance Management

Computer Skills

MS – Word & Excel Advanced & Fidelio - Front Office Package

Accounting Software -Wings,Focus,Tally, Ace, Profit,Solomon, Axapta, Buroware, Teams Spirit and Staffology.

SAP Plant Maintenance, Material Maintenance Module and Accounting.

Languages Skills

Spoken & written fluently: English, Hindi & Telugu.

Personal Details

Nationality: Indian

Marital status: Married

Driving License: UAE (Automatic)

Visa Status: Residence Visa

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