Nagarajan Venkatesh

Finance Head at Anchor Allied Factory

• United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
• My current job since January 2021

FP&A
Stakeholders communication
Business Strategy
Compliance
Taxation
CAPEX/OPEX controlling
Lean management
Business Excellence

Finance Director at Playsmart FZC

• United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
• August 2018 to January 2021

•A Chartered and Cost Accountant with 25+ years of International exposure to all aspects of Accounting, Finance, with project management, FMCG industry and BIG-4 experience

Head Finance at Iffco Group

• United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
• November 2004 to July 2018

FP&A:
 Financial control, budgeting, MIS, M&A
 Treasury, Banking, Financial consolidation,
 IFRS compliance, internal control and audits
 Span - 10 entities, 14 operation centres, Top-line USD 1 Billion+, 1, 000+ employees

Manager at Henkel Indi

• India
• July 1995 to November 2004

Listed public company. Company law and Income tax compliance, INR 400 Crores~USD 7 Million) top-line)

Significant results:
•Led periodical reporting of group results to Henkel KGaA, Germany, and India statutory accounts.
•Completed statutory accounts and audit by PWC / KPMG in a record time.
•Coordinated interactions between the functional heads on Sales and Marketing related issues.
•Completed the product costing (Absorption Costing), cost analysis, overhead analysis and optimization.
•Member of ISO 9001 audits and leading the Bills of material and process audits.
•Compliance with Direct taxation (Income tax, Withholding taxes), Indirect taxation (Sales Tax and Excise).
•Implemented budgetary controls, cost reduction and viability studies for various initiatives
•Member of Toll Manufacturing Coordination team for financial and costing matters.
•Key User - SAP implementation team - Core - FI, CO, Ancillary - PP & MM
•Implemented web enabled sales order processing system (IPoint) across 36 direct and indirect regimes across the length and breadth of India. Includes sales controlling, credit reviews and commercial discipline
•Handled sourcing, data mining and costing information across all factories and toll production.
•Implementing Henkel costing for new entities within four months ahead of the target of six months

at American Express Bank

• India
• January 1992 to July 1992

at Article ship A.F. Ferguson and Co

• India
• July 1989 to June 1992

Participated in statutory, tax, Management and certification audits.
Auditing to KPMG standards. Clients included Multinational companies such as Unilever (India) Ltd, Glaxo, ABB, MICO Bosch, E-Merck, ANZ Grindlays, CITI, Goodyear, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Metro Goldwin Mayer productions, L&T McNeil, Sandvik Asia, and Xerox.