John Gordon Isaac

is a leading shipping organization offering global port and hub agency services with more than 50yrs experience in shipping industry. In more than 1, 000 locations around the globe, GAC provides high-quality shipping, logistics and marine services.

Job Profile:

To assist the Business Units in managing their Credit risk and ensure timely collection of receivables as per agreed Credit terms, reduce overdue balances and avoid Credit losses.
Forward SOA to all Customers and Agents, follow up regularly and sort issues with concerned Department Coordinators/Manager.
Visit customers to keep good relationship, resolve disputes and accounting issues and arrange for collection from customers.
Prepare credit evaluation report for new customers.
Prepare ageing reports and arrange monthly ageing meetings with MD and respective Department Managers.
Prepare monthly collection forecast and Monitor Spot Credits.
Managing Payables - Reviewing vendor invoices, intercompany invoices and assigning cost codes for booking.
Reviewing Bank Reconciliation Statements.
Monitoring and processing Pay roll deductions, Periodical Amortization of Payroll elements, Special allowances, Preparing Final settlements etc.
Researches and resolves accounting issues, conduct Interim check on the books of accounts
Coordinating and providing relevant information for monthly cash forecasts.
Reconciliation & adjustments of key Cost centers and providing reports on Variance analysis to management with respective explanations.
Managing and Amortizing prepaid expenses, Employee Advances, Accruals/ Prepayments etc.
General Ledger Scrutiny on a monthly basis. Compile, enter and post monthly adjusting journal entries.
Month Closing Reports - Key Contributor to drive the monthly closing activities and ensure books are closed within the deadlines set globally.
Maintaining and updating changes implemented to the Integrated Management System followed by the Finance Department for various accounting procedures. Set up standard templates and processes and executing the task and ensuring compliance of accounting. Contributing to develop Operating Procedure Manuals.
Support in Developing Financial Systems - Coordinating with Global IT Team acting as the point of contact for testing various new process in Oracle Financial System up to implementation.
Key Contributor for Company Audits. Closely associated with Auditors during Company Interim Audits and Annual Audits.
Assist in preparing financial statements/ Business Strategic Plans/Forecasting reports etc. as and when required by Management/ Maintain agenda. Training New Joiners in the team and ad hoc assignments.

Execute daily downloads of cash/bank receipts from operational module in accounting software to ensure all cheques/cash collected at the D.O counters are received for deposit to bank or with the main cashier.
Generate deposit slips after verifying accuracy of downloaded data and ensure that same along with cheques is sent to the bank on the same day.
Generate bank statement from EBIL.net, coordinate with other departments, related staff, banks etc. to ensure that each entry on the bank statement is supported with adequate information to enable postings to Dolphin and reconcile the same with bank statement on daily basis.
Monitor cheques dishonoured by banks and ensure that every case of returned cheque is intimated to the concerned staff, credit controllers and related dept. heads.
Review shipping services job on a continuous basis to ensure the number of open jobs is within the limits.
Ensure jobs are closed only on approval from the authorized signatories

Co-ordinate with operation staffs in Tanker department and obtain the job files in time, prepare invoices according to the agreed tariff.
Inspect, authorize and approve for payment of third party invoices.
Preparation of monthly Supply service and present to the senior supervisor.
Preparation of monthly Lead time report for jobs and inform the supervisor regarding unclosed files.
Providing assistance in tariff revisions.
Review all jobs on a continuous basis to ensure all costs are billed and find unbilled jobs for the month.
Preparing monthly report for billed and unbilled cost.

Complete in-charge of sales and operations in satellite branch and network support.

Fully in-charge of the Branch and accounts.