karunakaran Rethinam, Manager - Finance & accounts

karunakaran Rethinam

Manager - Finance & accounts

Better Homes LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Finance
Experience
19 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 1 Months

Manager - Finance & accounts at Better Homes LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2011 to June 2017

Manager - Finance & Accounts at Better Homes LLC

Financial Reporting: Consolidated financial statement preparation of various departments & divisions, analysis of variance on monthly basis.Ensure that all transactions/reports are in line with IFRS and auditor's recommendation.

Executive Management Reporting: Monthly MIS Reports to Top Level management (Chairman/CEO) for better planning and decisions for further growth of business and bottom line. Advice on Financial issues of Sister Corporates to Top Management.Effective personal fund management assistance to Top Management

Personnel
Finance & Accounts's duties: Overseeing a head count of 6 who are accountants, Senior Accountants.
Guidance/training and monitoring their daily routines are perfomed well and in time.Daily anaylsis of cashflow and banking procedures.Monitoring payables and receivables regularly.Reconciling monthly ledger
activities.

Interdepartments: Ensure sales department's payment request are made on time daily and guidance to them in legal requirements, documentation.To ensure Short term, Property Management division's payment requests
are processed and made timely on daily basis.
Internal Department reporting: Monthly Profit&Loss, Customer Reports, Micro analysis of revenue and expenses to Sales Departments, Property Management department, Short Term rental department,
commercial revenue departments, Marketing, IT, Administration, CRM, Data management, Analysis of
Income & Exps of Mall Management.
Liasing with External Parties: Strong relationship with Banks for smooth functioning of daily routines. Such as daily cheque requests and deposits and funds fransfers, etc in huge volume. Better negotiation on Interest
rates based on EIBOR. Strong negotiation on bank charges levied on transactions. Advice and comments to them on forms and documentation.
Coordinate with external auditors on interim and annual audits, compliance/inspection departments from government such as Statistics Department, Economic department, etc.

Senior Accountant at Better Homes LLC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2005 to November 2011

Senior Accountant at Better Homes LLC
May 2005 - November 2011 (6 years 7 months)
Supervise and guide accountants, accounts assistants.
Monthly reconciliation of ledger for updation and variance analysis
Assist Finance director to prepare monthly MIS
Daily banking routines
Recording of transactions daily on computerised system and ensure the correctness of the same
Staff payments such as advances, monthly commissions, final settlements
supervising the division in the absense of HOD
Interdepartmental fund requests are processed and made on time.
Joined as an Accounts assistant in the division and promoted as an Accountant and then to Senior Accountant in short span of time due to Accuracy, Sincerity, Hard & Smart Work.

Audit/Accounts Executive (Client based assignment) at ASP Auditing,Chartered Accountants
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2004 to April 2005

On Behalf of ASP Auditing, worked at clients' site for their audit/accounting need. Full time based assignment to client M/S Home Pride Gen.Trdg, Dubai for their daily accounting work, banking, finance planning ( LC, OD, etc).

Accountant/Cashier/Senior Accountant/Branch Incharge at Al Haramain Perfumes
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • December 2001 to August 2004

Accountant/Cashier/Senior Accountant/Branch Incharge at Al Haramain Perfumes
December 2001 - August 2004 (2 years 9 months)
Implementation and maintenance of Computerized Accounts
Daily & monthly accounts, Finance reports to Head office through internet
Implementation of POS for the Showrooms
Administration of all Staffs & Showroom
Computerized Inventory Control & Supervision
Periodic Purchase & verification of inventory
Daily cash collection from showrooms & daily banking activities
Daily reporting to directors at Dubai
Daily accounting routines
Daily banking routines
Cash flow analysis and budgeting and management
Handled 3 showrooms' accounting/cashflow/ payments/revenue as a one man accounts department
Monthly reports to Head Office Finance Controller as well as worked as Cashier in the showrooms
Acted as Superviser/Incharge of 3 showrooms after branch manager left the company (almost 1.5 years)

Audit Executive at Suriya Prabha & Co, Chartered Accountants
  • India - Chennai
  • June 1998 to November 2001

Audit Executive at Suriya Prabha & Co, Chartered Accountants
June 1998 - November 2001 (3 years 6 months)
Joined as Articled Clerk
Bank Audits: Statutory audit, Revenue Audit, Concurrent Audit of Many banks such as IOB, Indian Bank,
Punjab national Bank, Corporation Bank, state bank of Travancore, etc
Audit of Trusts, Charities, Private limited companies, etc
•Accounts maintenance in accordance with IAS (Indian accounting standards) for clients.
•Accounts finalization in compliance with Accounting Standards by ICAI.
•Statutory, Internal, Concurrent Audit, Revenue Audit, Income& expenditure Audit, etc.,
•Sales Tax matters
•Hearings by & explanations to Income tax authorities on behalf of clients
•As a Accounts & Tax consultant for Clients ( Pvt.Companies, Firms, Individuals)
•Project preparation for finance
•Tax planning for various corporate bodies
•Company formation & Registration
•Import & Export Code registration

Education

Master's degree, Finance
  • at S P Jain School of Global Management
  • December 2009

S P Jain school of Global management (Previously known as SP Jain Center of Management) MBA, Finance, 2007 - 2009. Courses:Financial statement analysis,International finance, Derivatives,business valuations,mergers& acquisitions,risk management,Private Equity,,Portfolio management,Financial Accounting,Project Financing,Employee Relations,Operations Management,Business Analytics,Business Strategy,Information technology,Marketing Management,Business & Managerial Communication,etc

Bachelor's degree, Commerce,Accountancy
  • at Bharathidasa University(Tranquebar Bishop Manickam Lutheran College)
  • April 1998

Financial Accounting,Business Economics,Business Statistics,Management Accounting,Marketing,Financial Accounting II,Business Communication,Business LawsmIncome Tax Law & Practice,Company Law & Practice,Labour Laws,Cost Accounting,Banking and Currency,Business Management,Corporate Accounting,Auditing,Personnel Management,Financial Management

High school or equivalent, Commerce,Accountancy
  • at Govt Higher Secondary School Sankaranapandal,TamilNadu
  • May 1995

Mathematics, Economics, Commerce & Accountancy

Specialties & Skills

Management Presentations
Auditing
Bookkeeping
Staff Management
Financial Accounting
COMPUTER SKILLS
CORPORATE ACCOUNTS
AUDITING
MANAGEMENT REPORTING
BANKING
FINANCE
ERP COORDINATION
TEAM LEADERSHIP
RECONCILIATION
FINANCIAL PROJECTION & MODELING
VARIANCE ANALYSIS
Real Estate Accounting

Languages

Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Beginner
Arabic
Beginner
English
Expert
Tamil
Expert

Hobbies

  • Reading
  • Social Welfare
  • Writing
  • Photography
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