Abhishek Karnad, Assistant Manager

Abhishek Karnad

Assistant Manager

Citi Corp Services India Ltd

Location
India - Mumbai
Education
Master's degree, Chartered Accountant
Experience
13 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 0 Months

Assistant Manager at Citi Corp Services India Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since February 2014

Part of 4 member team working as a LEM for 11 Great Britain (UK) small Citi BUs. We are end to end responsible for all the numbers flowing into the allotted 11 entities under US & UK GAAP. This constitutes a reviewer function involving interpretation, analysis and validation of all financial balances.

Manager Finance at Ferring Pharmaceuticals
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since January 2015

Financial Reporting & Business planning and Analysis.
• Responsible for Monthly Financial Reporting as per group requirements (IFRS).
• Leading the team involved in Budgeting and Forecasting for Ferring India.
• Analyzing sales, gross margins and EBIT. Highlighting areas of concern and suggesting plans for improvement.
• Responsible for MIS (which includes presentations to be presented to APAC by the MD/ CFO).
• Responsible for cost and credit control measures.

Leading ERP implementation (Navision) :
• Involves end to end planning and implementation of migration process.
• Liaison with ERP consultants and responsible for in-house consensus.
• Creation of Dimensions (Group markets, profit centres, cost centres, General ledgers, Locations etc) basis discussions with MD/ CFO.
• Finalization of Masters and mappings (Chart of accounts, Inventory, Customer, Vendor, Fixed Asset, price list etc).
• Finalization of Migration data (Trial balance, open customer /vendor items, sales, inventory, deciding accounts with auto post, sub ledger status, mapping general ledger directly to cost centres e.g. advertising and promotion expense).
• Devising cut over strategy before go live.

Executive Finance at Sandoz Private Limited
  • India - Mumbai
  • April 2012 to February 2014

MIS Consolidation of Financials (IFRS) using SAP
GL reconciliation (ensure that balances do not show open items for more than two months without satisfactory explanation).
Managing Fixed Assets accounting, handled Fixed Assets rationalisation project.
Raising of service invoices on group companies based on the SLA.
Inventorisation and release of variances to appropriate market based on Stock turnover ratio.
Reviewing accounting of Goods In Transit.
Preparing and analysing Incontrol / exception report as a part of compliance and internal control system.
Consolidation of financials and liasion with auditors as part of statutory audit exercise.
Analysis of EBIT post reporting.
Played key role in handling end to end closure activities of one of the BUs which included arrangement of valuation / sale of assets, its accounting and reporting key updates to the management.

Industrial Trainee at Sandoz Private Limited
  • India - Mumbai
  • February 2010 to January 2011

Worked on MIS Consolidation of Financials (IFRS), GL reconciliation (ensure that balances do not show open items for more than two months without satisfactory explanation).
Fixed Assets accounting, raising of service invoices on group companies based on the SLA, reviewing accounting of Goods In Transit.

Education

Master's degree, Chartered Accountant
  • at Mumbai University
  • November 2011
Bachelor's degree, Accounts & Economics
  • at Mumbai University
  • February 2010
High school or equivalent, Accounts
  • at Maharashtra Board
  • April 2007

Specialties & Skills

Accountancy
sap fico
Navision
Business Planning
Financial Reporting
ADVANCED EXCEL
SAP FI & CO Module
ACCOUNTING
FINANCIAL REPORTING IFRS
MS Powerpoint

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Marathi
Expert

Memberships

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
  • Associate
  • November 2011

Hobbies

  • Playing volley ball, Badminton, Travelling
    Was awarded the Best Student of the school in 2004 and bagged the NIE- Times of India Best Student award in 2005. Bagged the Best Student award in 2006 and 2007 (college). Played Volleyball (Captain) at State and National level- (2001-2007)