Arun Kulkarni, Head - Operation

Arun Kulkarni

Head - Operation

CorpAge Investor Services Pvt. Ltd.

Location
India
Education
Master's degree, Advance Accounting, Marketing Management, Personnel Management
Experience
34 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :34 years, 1 Months

Head - Operation at CorpAge Investor Services Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Pune
  • My current job since September 2013

• Set up a startup company to provide services like process corporate actions, shareholder request, process KYC.
• Raised funding for the start-up through angel investor / private equity platform.
• Coordinated with IT vendor in software design & implementation.
• Built up a team to build & maintain clients’ shareholder records, process corporate actions, shareholders' requests and ensure statutory compliances.

Divisional Manager - Accounts & Finance at Kirloskar Brothers Limited, www.kirloskarpumps.com
  • India
  • September 2009 to August 2013

• Led a high performing F & A team to drive business performance for a pumps & turbine manufacturing plant with annual turnover of INR 6 Billion. Delivered high quality, timely and accurate financial analysis and reporting and develop strong collaborative relationships with organizational leaders to drive performance and facilitate effective decision making by senior management team.
• Prepared annual operating plan and cost centre budgets by closely monitoring expenses against budget, and presented weekly updates & dashboard reports to the management.
• Successfully implemented customer credit control system & recovered INR 300 Million from overdue receivables.
• Achieved 18% of reduction in Inventory by conducting a detailed analysis such as FSN, ABC, and VED.
• Sales tax saved by collecting sales tax forms of INR 160 Million and implemented a Form Management System.
• Improved profitability by providing product wise contribution analysis, project wise cost analysis, to the marketing team to improve sales mix and margin.
• Effectively managed funds by monitoring collections and weekly cash flows, utilized non-funding credit limits, closely monitoring letter of credit, handled funding for the projects, based on the contracts.
• Played a vital role in implementing SAP and provided day-to-day support to users.
• Established project wise rolling forecast for cash, revenue, and expenditure. And forecast of cost-of-completion report periodically for key project.

General Manager - Accounts & Costing at Grauer & Weil (India) Limited, www.growel.com.
  • India - Pune
  • May 2004 to September 2009

• Managed finalization of accounts, Profit & Loss, Balance sheet, audits, filling of tax returns.
• Successfully conducted a review of project performance and status on a monthly basis, managed project wise cash flows, adhere to project commitment and expenditure budgets.
• Successfully implemented SAP improvement initiatives to improve quality of reports, recommended training plans/initiatives for the user are abreast with latest SAP processes and functionality.
• Set up 15 profit centers/franchisee networks across the country fully satisfying the management, implemented profit center accounting, and established internal audit system.

Manager - Finance at Telesuprecon Limited (A Telecom Projects & consult. co. providing Turnkey Telecom project solution)
  • South Africa
  • April 2003 to December 2003
Manager - Accounts at Al Fassil General Trading & Contracting Co (A Kuwait based Construction Company)
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • September 2002 to March 2003
Manager - Accounts & Administration at Grind Master Machines Pvt Ltd (www.grindmaster.co.in)
  • India
  • September 1998 to September 2002

• Successfully handled Finance and HR function, including treasury, term loan, working capital, bank guarantees, and letter of credits.
• Vital role in setting up a joint venture company with Lippert Unipol GmbH.
• Handled in-house software development, this includes case study, system analysis, data tables, system flow and controls, user requirement, MIS report designing and ensured implementation of the system.

Senior Accounts Officer at Goodyear's South Asia Tyres Ltd (A Goodyear USA group of companies, www.goodyear.co.in)
  • India
  • January 1993 to April 1997

• Successfully assisted in preparation of the due - diligence report, building fixed asset records, and compliance of due-diligence audit with M/s AF Fergusson.
• Raised INR 200 Million in cash crisis by way of “Sale and Lease Back” from a financial institution.
• Successfully handled capitalization of INR 4 Billion of a joint venture of CEAT & GOODYEAR.
• Coordinated the implementation of ERP - JD Edward Financial & PRISM Resource management.
• Successfully handled payroll & benefits administration for 1000 plus employees.

Systems Accountant at Crompton Greaves Limited, www.cgglobal.com
  • India
  • September 1988 to December 1992

• Independently handled customer invoicing, receivable accounting, debtors ageing and reconciliation.
• Prepared MIS reports, cash flow statements and submitted to corporate.
• Handled accounts payable, bill passing, posting, payments and vendor reconciliation.
• Handled Bank, petty cash, and monthly bank reconciliation statements.
• Handled Excise, dispatches, export, RG23 Part I & II, PLA, RT12, audit and compliance.
• Handled inventory, GRN/GIR preparation, inward register, stock register, imports.
• Handled Employee Master Records, recruitment, leave & attendance, PF & Gratuity and payroll.

Education

Master's degree, Advance Accounting, Marketing Management, Personnel Management
  • at Marathwada University,
  • April 1991
Diploma, System Analysis, Programming, Cobol, Basic
  • at Institute of Chartered Computer Professionals of India
  • March 1991
Diploma, COBOL Programming
  • at Marathwada University,
  • October 1990

Certificate In COBOL Programming

Bachelor's degree, Advance Accounting, Auditing, Management
  • at Marathwada University,
  • April 1986

Specialties & Skills

Fundraising
Margin Enhancement
Project Accounting
Annual Budgets
SAP ERP
Project Accounting
SAP Implementation
Taxation & Compliance
Budgeting & Auditing
Cash Flow & Working Capital
Payroll Management
Cost Reduction & Cost Control
Financial Planning & Control
MIS & Dashboards

Languages

Hindi
Intermediate
English
Expert
Marathi
Expert

Hobbies

  • Travelling