GERLINDA RODRIGUES, Financial Accountant

GERLINDA RODRIGUES

Financial Accountant

Drops Group Holding

Location
Kuwait - Al Kuwait
Education
Master's degree, Finance
Experience
5 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 11 Months

Financial Accountant at Drops Group Holding
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • My current job since July 2021

Daily, weekly & monthly sales reports with analysis
Supplier payments with planning/creation/execution & supplier reconciliation
for multi-country suppliers (KWT & UAE) & timely emails to suppliers
Bank reconciliations (7 banks - KWT & UAE)
Execution of customer service refunds with addressing concerns & queries
while dealing with banks
Assisting in 2024 budget creation & meetings
Rectification of app-based errors/issues related to inventory (3 Warehouses)
KNET, Credit Card & COD sales recognition
Month end tasks with report analysis, reconciliation & system updation,
GCC dashboard for 3 related countries
App based category analysis for GP/sales/growth
Assisting in creation of improvements in gateway system eg. adding customer
details for effective tracking of transactions
Understanding payment gateway for customers successful refundsDaily, weekly & monthly sales reports with analysis
Supplier payments with planning/creation/execution & supplier reconciliation
for multi-country suppliers (KWT & UAE) & timely emails to suppliers
Bank reconciliations (7 banks - KWT & UAE)
Execution of customer service refunds with addressing concerns & queries
while dealing with banks
Assisting in 2024 budget creation & meetings
Rectification of app-based errors/issues related to inventory (3 Warehouses)
KNET, Credit Card & COD sales recognition
Month end tasks with report analysis, reconciliation & system updation,
GCC dashboard for 3 related countries
App based category analysis for GP/sales/growth
Assisting in creation of improvements in gateway system eg. adding customer
details for effective tracking of transactions
Understanding payment gateway for customers successful refunds

Financial Accountant at Al Hasawi Group
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • November 2020 to July 2021

Handling Sears related sales activities- Sears Farwaniya, Boulevard & TSCSharq
Intercompany reconciliation between different subsidiaries of Al-Hasawi
Bank & COD reconciliation. Daily sales- Sears and Ace Hardware
Write off and write back of inventory
Preparing schedules for Audit along GL accounting & month end closing
activities
Journal entries & closing run sheets for the orders delivered to customers
Assisting the line manager with audit related activities- audit schedules
Basic understanding of costing/MIS/Budgeting,
Dealing with run sheets - Ace E-Commerce
Costing: Ace and Sears
Supplier payments in AP module
Invoice booking, payments, AP transfer, clear accounting
Basic understanding of internal audit & compliance audit
Active participation in company year end audit

Audit Assistant at Ernst & Young
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • January 2020 to March 2020

Audit work programme conducted by EY from Jan 2020 to March 2020
Analyzing the OAR (Overall Analytical Review) & SRM in audit
Casting of financial statements to check the accuracy of the financial
statements
Dealt with related party transactions for a client for audit that had many
subsidiaries
Dealt with cash & bank statements, reconciliation & confirmation
Trend reasonability analysis (Prospective Financial Information) - Comparison
between 5 audited years & 5 projected (forecasted) years
Data analysis
Research procedures (ABK Bank).
Assisting senior auditors with audit schedules
Studying & analysing annual reports & financial statements for any numerical
differences in formula or numerical data
Assisting the senior auditors with deadline tasks such as final check on annual
reports, rolling forward in company canvas, to prepare working papers on
employee file testing, P&L and BS items
Audit for companies such as AEPC, KIPCO, UBC, UFM & AMAKEN

Finance Executive at IFB Industries Ltd. Home Appliances
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2018 to December 2019

HDFC Bank online remittance requests for international vendor payments
•HDFC Bank international import payment entries in SAP
•HDFC Bank International Export Receipt entries in SAP
•HDFC LC acceptance export related documentation preparation. Export between IFB Industries Ltd. Goa and Sagatani Exim Nepal Ltd.
•Standard Chartered Bank LC issuance for IFB.
•Standard Chartered Bank documentation for forward rate booking done by IFB.
•Generation of Forms 15 CA and A2 for the purpose of making international Service payments such as advisory, professional, technological, maintenance and consultancy fees to vendors.
•IFB Branch Collection entries- Branch remittances made by IFB’s Customers (Debtors)
•IFB Branch Overdue Report to keep a track of IFB debtors/customers and their aging- Accounts Receivable
•IFB Branch Overdue Analysis Report.
•IFB Loss Funding Report- Keeping a track of effective overdue. i.e. Overdue minus the Loss Funding which derives the effective overdue.

Education

Master's degree, Finance
  • at Goa University
  • April 2019
High school or equivalent, Finance
  • at Goa University
  • April 2019

High school or equivalent, Finance
  • at Shree Damodar College of Commerce and Economics
  • April 2019

High school or equivalent, Finance
  • at Fatima Convent High School
  • April 2019

Master's degree, Finance
  • at Goa University
  • April 2018

MBA PART 1, Department of Management Studies, Goa University 1 Month Organizational Study at Sattvic Innovations, Chimbel, Goa from 11th December 2017 to 11th January 2018 MBA part 1 and 2 Internship (majoring in Finance) at IFB Industries Ltd, Home Appliances Division, Verna. Participated in German Student Exchange Programme between Goa University and Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany from March 2017 to June 2017. Hosted a talk on Angel Investing by Mr. Govind Raj Dempo at Goa University, Department of Management Studies. Awarded Outstanding Student Entrepreneurship Award for being Financial Perfectionist for the year 2017. Presented this award at the Department of Management Studies, Goa University.

High school or equivalent, Finance
  • at Goa University
  • January 2013

High school or equivalent, Finance
  • at Goa Board
  • January 2011

Specialties & Skills

Financial Accounting
Accounts Receivable
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
Public Speaking
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
COMPUTER ASSOCIATES PAQUETES
DOCUMENTATION
ACCOUNTANCY
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
GESTIóN
LANGUAGES
Microsoft PowerPoint
Teamwork
Auditing
Payments
Reconciliation
Accounting

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
German
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Cybersecurity & Data Practices (Training)
Training Institute:
IMA
Date Attended:
January 2024
CMA (Training)
Training Institute:
IMA
Date Attended:
January 2024
Tally ERP 9 (Training)
Training Institute:
Digicom
Date Attended:
July 2016
German Student Exchange Programme/Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany

Hobbies

  • Traveling, Music, Zumba, Reading, Meseums, Libraries
    The accomplishment of having travelled to the following countries and experiencing different global cultures and traditions while on German Student Exchange Programme: Oman( Muscat), Germany (Ingolstadt, Freiburg, Berlin), France (Paris), Amsterdam, Austria ( Salzburg), Italy (Rome, Venice, Padua, Pisa), Spain (Madrid, Barcelona)