Senior Accounting Supervisor
Kirby Building systems, Kuwait – A subsidiary of Alghanim Industries
Total years of experience :21 years, 10 Months
Role: General ledger, Accounts Payable, Treasury and Risk Management Controls.
Supervising a team of 6 employees.
Monthly Hyperion Reporting
KPI reporting
Input for yearly Budgeting and subsequent reforecasts.
Risk Management control test reviews and implementing new controls in place.
Fund management and approving deals
Approval of all types of Payments, LC opening and accounting of Journal entries.
Balance Sheet Reconciliations
Approving any changes in Master data in SAP (GL accounts, Cost centre, Fixed Assets, Vendor accounts)
Review Payroll and Bank activities.
Preparation of yearly financials in accordance with IFRS for Ernst and Young Audit.
Draft policies and Standard operating procedures to improve productivity and compliance.
SAP Power user and trainer.
Automations and stream lining of SAP Process
Process: SAP Migration for Downstream business in India (Jan 2011 till date)
Primary Responsibilities:
Conversion of General Ledger data from Legacy SUN system to SAP.
Validation of data submitted for Fixed Assets, Inventory, Account Receivable, Account payable.
Preparation of mapping tables for GL Accounts, Profit Centre & Cost Centre.
Validation of data after upload of trial conversion data to SAP quality assurance system.
Confirmation Acceptance testing for SAP and BW activities.
Training of End users on General Ledger processes.
General Ledger Super User.
Process: General Accounting (Manage Close team) (April 2008 - Dec 2010)
Primary responsibilities:
Monitoring monthly billing and analyzing Intra Group billing.
Analysis and reviewing of Balance sheet accounts and preparation of Balance Sheet reconciliations.
Reviewing and supervising the activities of Inter Group team.
Calculating and processing Revenue and Cost Accruals.
Reviewing monthly Tax provisions.
Recording and Approving of necessary period close Journal entries for Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly book close.
Submission of Balance Sheet and P&L Quarterly to group based on Group Chart of Accounts, analyzing the variance and submission of necessary supplementary information.
Preparation and Management of all classified records for control purposes.
Monthly feedback discussion with team members.
Additional responsibilities
Monthly KPI (Key Performance Indicator) reporting for all Manage close activities performed from SBSC Chennai for all entities.
SAP ERP Migration responsibilities:
Part of the Business Impact Assessment team for the ERP migration happened in Jan 2010 (from JD Edwards to SAP (ECC 6.0)).
Data cleansing and conversion of closing balance for Balance Sheet accounts and Sub ledgers.
Process : General Accounting (Inter Co. Accounting)
Responsibilities:
Process lead for the Inter Company team for UK, Nordics and Central Europe regions.
Preparation of Sub ledger Reconciliations & Balance Sheet reconciliations.
Calculation of Provisions and Accruals.
Preparation of Aging Report with specific comments on aged items for the Group reporting.
Additional responsibilities:
Processing of Manual as well as Automatic Journals as a part of the period end activity in SAP.
BCP (Business Continuity Program) SPOC
Process : Accounts Receivable
Responsibilities:
Execute billing program and correction of errors.
Month end reporting on Outstanding.
Creation of Quarterly provisions.
Reconciliation of Receivable accounts.
Cash allocation to respective customer accounts from Bank statements and Cheques received.
Credit Management.
Responsibilities:
Maintaining books of accounts.
Maintaining inventories.
Calculating incentives on the basis of orders.
Preparation of salary statements.
Preparation of Financial Statements.
Responsibilities.
Done auditing work of various Private, Public and Semi-Government Companies.
Assisted in Statutory Bank Audits conducted by the firm in the above years.
Worked as Accountant for Kulathunkal Automobiles & Kulathunkal Electronics on behalf of M/s Mathew Philip Chartered Accountant.
o Responsibilities:
Verification of cash vouchers, bank transactions, Sales Invoices, Accounts receivables, Purchase Invoices, Accounts Payables.
Verification of Stock.
Preparation of Final Accounts and its Schedules.