Senior Finance Executive
G4S Secure Solutions Int’l
Total years of experience :17 years, 8 Months
G4S is listed in London Stock Exchange and is the world’s leading international security solutions group, having its footprint in more than 120 countries around the globe and specializes in secure outsourcing in countries & sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat.
Reporting to Finance Controller & Director Finance for the following activities:
•Working as a Lead Shared-Service Contact for Off-shore Team of Accountants and guiding and leading them for Monthly and Yearly Financial Close.
•Supervising Financial Close for 10 Legal entities of the Group.
•Responsible for the scheduling and management of complete month-end accounting through the shared service center in India and making sure all the activities are executed in prescribed deadlines for all the business units and legal entities.
•Reviewing all the accruals and provisions, and other adjustments making sure the correctness of expenditure incurred.
•Review all the Balance sheet reconciliations to identify and mitigate risks.
•Guidance to Shared SSC (India) on queries related to ‘Procure to pay’ (P2P), ‘Order to cash’ (O2C) and ‘Record to report’ (R2R) as and when required by providing knowledge.
• Critical analysis on business units performance for management reporting, comparison of actual expenditures with Budgets & Forecast and provide necessary inputs for the management.
•Responsible for cost control through analysis of Purchase Requisition from various sections of business unit and ensuring that request is in line with Budgets.
•Support in external, internal audits and group internal financial review.
•Review the execution of group’s minimum financial controls listings and ensure the compliance.
•Review accounting for work in progress, percentage of completion procedures, revenue recognition, projects costing and ensure the validity of inputs from operations.
•Keen in identifying major risks and exposures in the all areas of the balance sheet.
•Manage the yearly stock count and identify risks in inventory management and provide recommendations.
•Managing the affairs of inter-group settlements in line with Group’s disclosure requirements with Middle-east and North Africa, Europe and other business regions to reconcile with their balances as per the SOP.
•Monthly value added tax reconciliation and filing.
Achievements
•Improved the quality of information for materials inventory, accrued income and WIP reporting of various multi-million dollars project for Electronic Security Services.
•Acted as Lead GL Trainer for the Off-Shore Shared Service Centre and successfully implemented the SSC in India through “Lift and Shift” approach to SOP. The project resulted in a saving of GBP 40K per month.
of almost a century and its fortune 500 Trading house which is a broad spectrum of Trading and Joint venture activities throughout the globe such as metal production, transportation, infrastructure, and energy etc.
Reporting to Country Head for the following activities:
•Managing General Accounting, Payments, Treasury, Company Assets, Corporate Taxation, month end reporting, Internal Audit with Singapore Region & External Audit.
•Administrative & General Affairs, liaison with Government Department such as Board of Investment, Security & Exchange Commission, Chamber of commerce, Interior & Labor Department.
•Arrangements for Foreign delegations, Management of Vehicles, Premises, Security, Insurance and company Assets.
•Maintaining company rules in the light of Global Human Resource and legal department.
Close coordination with Singapore and Tokyo Tax teams.
•Having accomplished all the financial, legal, tax and other critical corporate matters related to change of regional office from Tokyo to Singapore.
•Acting as an authorized representative of the Sumitomo Corporation Japan in CDC Pakistan with respect to issues related to company investor account in a joint venture of steel business.
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