Abdul Rasheed Cholayil, Finance Manager Corporate

Abdul Rasheed Cholayil

Finance Manager Corporate

Landmark Arabia

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, E-MBA Finance
Experience
25 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 8 Months

Finance Manager Corporate at Landmark Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since November 2018

• Managing Accounts Receivables function of Landmark Arabia @ KSA level
• Ensure proper reconciliation of sub ledger vs general ledger
• Ensure timely Month and Year end closure by finalizing the accounts
• Manage internal and statutory audit for Accounts Receivables & C2C
• Ensure the collection of due receivables on timely manner by continuous follow-up
• Supervising the C2C tower @ KSA level and assurance of revenue of the company without leakage
• Reconciliation of Cash, Cards and other tenders and ensuring the realization
• Providing MIS reports regarding Accounts Receivables & C2C
* HRDF review and preparing analysis Reports.

Finance Manager Corporate at Landmark Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2017 to October 2018

• Managing Accounts Payable function of Landmark Arabia @ KSA level
• • Managing E-Commerce finance operations and reconciliations
• Ensure E-commerce collections are received from delivery partners as per the due date
• Authorization of payment vouchers @ KSA level
• Territory spoc for new projects : S2P2P and Online batch payments
• Support to the retail and other functions with related to payments
• Ensuring on time payment to suppliers and get the additional benefits on early payment
• Ensure the company policies and compliances are adhered
• Ensuring the fulfillment of service level agreements with the business
• Ensure proper reconciliation of sub ledger vs general ledger through outsourcing partner
• Ensure timely Month and Year end closure by finalizing the accounts
• Manage internal and statutory audit for Accounts Payable
• Ensure cleanness of accounts before VAT implementation in KSA
• Ensure smooth VAT implementation and adhere the compliances as per KSA VAT law.

Regional Finance Controller at Landmark Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • October 2016 to October 2017

• Regional finance operations and management of the account functions
• Preparation of regional MIS and reviewing with regional head and concept managers
• Retail support with regard to petty cash, floats, verifone machines, customer issues etc.
• Petty cash approval and its operation as per the SOP
• Approval of common regional purchase orders
• Authorization of invoices and payment vouchers
• Liaise with banks with regard to payments, credit cards, cash pickup and fund transfers
• Regional expenses analysis and review for cost optimization
• Negotiation with suppliers for price reduction
• Assisting regional head for property management
• Regional accounts reconciliations and invoice process with outsourcing partner
• Coordinating with corporate and divisional offices for financial matters
• S2P2P (Sourcing 2 procure 2 pay) trainer for the region

Deputy Manager Corporate Finance at Landmark Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2015 to September 2016

• Management of the account functions of the group @ KSA corporate
• Management of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions for all the five regions in KSA (Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Abha & Buraidha)
• Inter-region coordination and preparing reports on Regional Finance Managers functions for KSA Corporate
• Transition spoc for P2P & C2C and adviser for R2R
• Authorizing the payments at KSA corporate level
• ERP (Oracle EBS-R12) trainer for the territory post implementation of the new chart of account and allocation.
• Advising on query resolutions of the divisional and regional finance team
• Internal and statutory audit preparation and finalization of accounts.

Deputy Manager Finance at Land Mark Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • July 2013 to September 2015

Deputy Manager Finance - Land Mark Group- Western Region Jeddah, KSA - 1 July 13 up to date
1. Review of Daily, Weekly, Monthly MIS
2. Preparation of Feasibility Studies and Capex Budgets and its comparison with actual
3. Review of Buying Budgets
4. Preparation of Financial Budgets and its comparison with actual
5. Preparation of Business plans
6. Monthly MIS review with the management
7. Review and analysis of Margin and overheads
8. Approval of trading and other procurement LPO's
9. Review and analysis of other provisions
10. Reply of statutory and internal audit reports
11. Concept reporting to head of office Dubai

Deputy Manager Accounts at Land Mark Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • July 2011 to June 2013

Deputy Manager Accounts - Land Mark Group- Western Region Jeddah, KSA - 1 July 11 to 30-Jun 13
1. Manage the functions of Accounts Department
2. Ensure accurate and timely Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Closing of the books
3. Ensure accurate and timely MIS reports
4. Supports Budgets & Five year planning activities
5. Implement necessary internal control systems
6. Implementation of the SOP from Corporate Office
7. Authorization of the payment vouchers
8. Statutory Audits Preparation
9. Co-ordination with the other Department Managers

Chief Accountant at Land Mark Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • July 2008 to June 2011

Chief Accountant - Land Mark Group- Western Region Jeddah, KSA - 1-July 08 to30-Jun 11
1. Over all Co-ordination of the Accounting Functions of Jeddah Region
2. Comply with all Group Policies & enable the development & implementation of appropriate accounting practices. Ensure that controls and procedures are established.
3. Lead the development of processes & controls to ensure a smooth & accurate Month/Year end finalization of Trial Balance & review the reconciliations
4. Training and motivating the Team Members
5. Control on monthly and Yearly Accounts Schedules
6. Preparing and reviewing monthly Management Accounts
7. Consolidation of MIS Reports to Corporate office Dubai
8. Operationally supporting the Concepts (Sales Departments)
9. ERP Coordination with Corporate office Dubai and Territory Head office Riyadh
10. Supporting the MIS office for Annual Budgets
11. Co-coordinating the Accounts functions with Head Office in Riyadh
12. Carrying out annual Internal and Statutory Audit
13. Consolidation of Regional intercompany financial reports
14. Control on Allocation of Common Expenses
15. Attending the financial queries from Corporate Office Dubai
16. Any other job functions required by the Management.

Senior Accountant at Land Mark Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2005 to June 2008

Senior Accountant - Land Mark Group- Jeddah, KSA - 20 November 05 to 30-June 08
1. Daily checking of all entries from Sub Ledgers AP, AR, FA and CM
2. Rectification of wrong coding and wrong entries
3. Sales JV Reconciliation with POS
4. Pay-Roll Accounts reconciliations with ERP
5. Finalizing the General Ledger Accounts before Audit
6. Preparation of Audit Schedules
7. Uploading of multiple Journal entries to ERP System by using ADI
8. Inventory and Non-Inventory Reconciliation EDP with ERP
9. Manual allocation of Common Expenses to Cost Centers
10. Checking of Interface entries from POS and BOSS
11. Capitalization of Assets, Retirement, Sale and Transfer among Locations
12. Generation of ad-hoc reports using ERP in house system.

Chief Accountant at Al-Ghab Trading
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • October 1998 to October 2005

Chief Accountant -1 Jan, 2002 to 31 October, 2005 (Al-Ghab Trading, Jeddah)
1. Supervision and Scrutinizing of Accounts
2. Preparation of Financial Statements
3. Preparation of Schedules for Annual audit
4. Expense Analysis and preparation of Comparative Statements
5. Profit & Loss Account Comparison with Budget & Previous Year
6. Opening of new Sets of Books of Accounts for new Stores
7. General Ledger reconciliation with Sub-Ledgers
8. Inter Company Reconciliations
9. Providing ad-hoc reports to the Management as per requirements

Education

Master's degree, E-MBA Finance
  • at Indian School of Management & Studies
  • June 2019
Master's degree, Master of Commerce (Course Completed)
  • at Calicut University
  • April 1996
Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Calicut University
  • April 1993

Specialties & Skills

Financial Accounting
Budgeting
MIS Reporting
General Ledger
Oracle Financials
ACCOUNTING
Oracle (ERP)
GENERAL LEDGER
RECONCILIATION
Accounts Payable
Fixed Assets
Accounts Receivable
Value Added Tax
Financial SOP's
Account trouble shooting
BUDGETS

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Expert

Memberships

Pranavam Arts & Sports Club
  • Executive Member (Worked as Secretary for three years)
  • January 1990

Training and Certifications

Personal and Organizational Development (Training)
Training Institute:
AIM Worldwide
Date Attended:
October 2006
Duration:
16 hours
Oracle Financials (Training)
Training Institute:
Land Mark Group
Date Attended:
March 2008
Duration:
120 hours
Train Your Brain (Training)
Training Institute:
Dr. Pon Elango, Inner Universe
Date Attended:
November 2007
Duration:
12 hours

Hobbies

  • Cricket
  • Reading
  • Football
  • Travelling