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Avinash Rajan, Finance Specialist

Avinash Rajan

Finance Specialist·Majid Al Futtaim

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, Finance and Auditing

Work experience

Total years of experience: 13 years, 3 months

Finance Specialist

September 2019 - Present

Majid Al Futtaim

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

September 2019 - Present

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Senior Associate - Audit & Assurance

October 2018 - August 2020

Khalid Mohd Auditing & Tax Consultancy

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

October 2018 - August 2020

• Managing all day-to-day things for the company. (Startup)
• Responsible for carrying Internal and External Audit procedures starting from planning until reporting.
• Responsible for supervising the team and ensuring due completion of work.
• Developing financial policies and procedures tailor made for clients.
• Performing business development for the company.
• Ensure the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for clients.
• Conducting special assignments such as fraud audit, feasibility study, etc for clients.
• Ensure all the audits follow a process map and diligent planning.
• Complied and verified all the VAT filing for our clients.

Achievements
• Conducting assignment as a Finance Manager for our client and managed their Finance Team for 5-6 months. Sharply and significantly improved the finance function to match the requirements of the company.d the finance function to match the requirements of the company.

Company industry:
Financial Auditing
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Senior Finance Executive

August 2017 - August 2018

Nitara Trading DMCC

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

August 2017 - August 2018

1. Developing and formulating long-term forecasts and leading the company’s budgeting process.
2. Review the accounting reports and analysis of the actual versus the budget.
3. Review and verification of costs incurred and ensure completeness of documentation.
4. Developing and formulating long-term forecasts and leading the company’s budgeting process.
5. Consolidation of accounts on a Group level.
6. Keeping track of all payments and expenditures, including payroll, purchase orders, invoices, statements, etc.
7. Supervise and Improvise on projects initiated by the Group.
8. Managed the accurate and timely processing of all the invoices on a monthly basis, validated content and resolved all issues.
9. Reconcile vendor statements, research and correct discrepancies.
10. Implemented internal control and process checks to improve the payment process
11. Monitor vendor accounts to ensure payments are up to date and compliant with the agreed vendor payment terms.
12. Furnished the CFO with A/P liability summaries and cash flow reports that were consistently praised for their accuracy, user-friendliness and timeliness.
13. Assisting the Group CFO with month end and year end closing.
14. Supervise preparation of KPI’s which includes management of risk and analysis based on trends.
15. Facilitated “No Fault” internal and external audits as a result of sound recordkeeping and thorough documentation.
16. Maintaining relationship with the bankers through co-ordination and financial management of funds.
17. Handling invoice generation based on the customer requirements.
18. Leading the team and developing objectives for team and individual performance and monitor their achievement.
19. Implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT) in the firm.
20. Preparation and periodical filing of VAT returns to the Federal Tax Authority (FTA).
21. Development and monitoring of internal controls pertaining to financial management.

Company industry:
Other Business Support Services
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Auditor

July 2015 - July 2017

PKF Chartered Accountants

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

July 2015 - July 2017

1. Planning, organizing and performing audits including risk assessments.
2. Handling audits with clients in diversified industries.
3. Understand, evaluate and test the design and operation of accounting and internal control systems, offering recommendation for any weaknesses noted.
4. Review the accounting ledgers of the client including payables and receivables and analyzing the transactions based on the set materiality level and communicating discrepancy if any to the management
5. As part of the audit process, conducted meetings with client’s senior management, planned and designed procedures, trained interns, discussed issues with the firm’s senior partners and ensured overall quality and timely delivery of the project;
6. Preparation of management improvement report which details all the process improvement points identified as part of the audit.
7. Ensure compliance to Group accounting policies and local law in transaction processing.
8. Assess any changes in accounting standards (IFRS) and its implication on financial and disclosure reporting.
9. Preparation, completion and timely issuance of financial reports, meeting the client deadlines.
10. Conducted special assignments which includes fraud audit, royalty audit and performance analysis and organization restructure evaluation.

Company industry:
Accounting
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

PKF UAE

March 2012 - July 2014

PKF UAE

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

March 2012 - July 2014

• Planning, organizing and performing audits including risk assessments.
• Handling audits with clients in diversified industries.
• Understand, evaluate and test the design and operation of accounting and internal control systems,
offering recommendation for any weaknesses noted.
• Review the accounting ledgers of the client including payables and receivables and analyzing the
transactions based on the set materiality level and communicating discrepancy if any to the
management
• As part of the audit process, conducted meetings with client’s senior management, planned and
designed procedures, trained interns, discussed issues with the firm’s senior partners and ensured
overall quality and timely delivery of the project;
• Preparation of management improvement report which details all the process improvement points
identified as part of the audit.
• Ensure compliance to Group accounting policies and local law in transaction processing.
• Assess any changes in accounting standards (IFRS) and its implication on financial and disclosure
reporting.
• Preparation, completion and timely issuance of financial reports, meeting the client deadlines.

• Conducted special assignments which includes fraud audit, royalty audit, performance analysis and organization restructure evaluation.

Company industry:
Financial Auditing
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Education

ACCA

October 2017

October 2017

Master's degree, Finance and Auditing

United Arab Emirates

ACCA

October 2016

October 2016

Diploma, Finance

United Arab Emirates

Skills

QuickBooks
Expert
QuickBooks
Expert
Financial Management
Expert
Financial Management
Expert
Auditing
Expert
Auditing
Expert
Microsoft Office
Expert
Microsoft Office
Expert
IFRS
Expert
IFRS
Expert
marketing
Intermediate
marketing
Intermediate
accounting
Expert
accounting
Expert
tax
Intermediate
tax
Intermediate
planning
Intermediate
planning
Intermediate
Microsoft Office
Intermediate
Microsoft Office
Intermediate
Auditing
Expert
Auditing
Expert
Quickbooks
Expert
Quickbooks
Expert
Tally
Intermediate
Tally
Intermediate
Teamwork
Expert
Teamwork
Expert
Microsoft Excel
Expert
Microsoft Excel
Expert
Organization of work
Expert
Organization of work
Expert
Sage
Intermediate
Sage
Intermediate
JD Edwards
Intermediate
JD Edwards
Intermediate
Business Objects
Intermediate
Business Objects
Intermediate
QuickBooks
Expert
QuickBooks
Expert
Financial Management
Expert
Financial Management
Expert
IFRS
Expert
IFRS
Expert

Languages

English

Expert

Hindi

Expert

Tamil

Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Certifications
ACCA
Mar 2018

Hobbies and interests

Mobile Application Development

Have been working on Swift programming language with MacOS

Singing

Have been part of numerous signing competitions

Blogging

Create a website and have been blogging website - www.syncwithlife.com

Football

Have been part of school football team