Pankaj Raj, General Manager

Pankaj Raj

General Manager

Millennium Lubricant Refinery LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Master's degree, Finance & Marketting
Experience
24 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 5 Months

General Manager at Millennium Lubricant Refinery LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Ras Al Khaimah
  • My current job since June 2017

Management

General Manager at Kamal Refinery Ltd
  • Tanzania
  • My current job since April 2016

lubricant plant/Blending, budgets, costing operation

Group Finance / Operations Manager at KENTZ International FZC
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • May 2011 to March 2016

Review and advise Unit Staff on Project Profitability, Estimate and Pricing • Analyze operational and financial data to identify opportunities and risk, determine financial and operational impact and propose recommendations for improvement of financial results. • Make regular reports to the Unit Management on Job Profitability, General Overheads including Variance in Job Estimates and Budgets • Play a lead role in the preparation and presentation of Quarterly forecasts, annual business plans and budgets, to the Unit Management and Head Office. • Serve as the Finance Operations representative to facilitate cross-market and cross-functional resolution of financial, operational, or reporting based initiatives. • Ensure proper financial reporting, analysis, cost control, credit control and Enforce financial policy and administer business rules. • Lead and direct team initiatives and resources, as assigned and Identify and implement plans for own training and development needs • Partner with the managing Director to identify opportunities to enhance or improve financial policy, business process, and share best practices. • Liaise and negotiate, as appropriate, with the Business Partners, Suppliers etc on future service delivery initiatives, Pricing, Credit Periods etc in conjunction with the Unit Management and Managing Director • Ensure timely update of accounting data, safe custody of records and periodic reconciliation of control, bank and intercompany accounts. • Ensure timely and validated settlement of Supplier Billing & Payments and Customer Invoices and Collection Monitoring the budget of all the operation department • Lead and manage the day to to day activities of the collections team. • Prepared Monthly Collections review, Quality Error Analysis Report, Scope of Improvement Report, Monthly Activity Report and devised plans to improve the efficiency and productivity of the process. • Reviewed quality reports signed by staff on Assure net and approved for clearance of Entries on a monthly basis. • Understanding of the KENTZ business and its workflow and created a high performance culture • Analyzed business trends to optimize resource utilization, ensured adherence to all Performance Level Agreement's and work with Business Partners to achieve continuous improvement. • Actively promoted teamwork and shared best practices. Created an environment which increased employee satisfaction. • Ability to interpret various MIS to identify gaps and take corrective action. • Problem solving capability on operational, customer service and HR matters.

Assistant General Manager / Financial Analysis, at Al-Khalid Group OF Companies
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • December 1999 to April 2011

Financial Planning, Management and Reporting ( IFRS)
Reviewing current and future financial status of the company, keeping control of assets, records, loan
Evaluating OPEX costs in order to plan budgets
Reviewing financial reporting systems, accounting and collection procedures, and make recommendations for changes of procedures, operating systems, budgets, and other financial control functions
Recruit staff members, and oversee training programs
Review collection reports to determine the status of collections and the amounts of outstanding balances
Cash Flow Forecast.
Check and Maintain internal controls
Reviewing Bank and other GL Reconciliations
Contractual & Other Regular Client Billing and Receivable Management
Purchase, Vendor Payables & Payroll Management
Finalisation of Accounts & liaison with auditors
Bid Pricing, Project Finance Planning & Management
Variance analysis for project P&Ls
General Accounting Management including transaction processing
Monthly Financial Statements and MIS
Foreign & Local Purchases and its applicable L/C correspondences
 Preparing Weekly Revenue analysis report
 Coordinating with department managers to find out area for improvement
Achievements in GDMC
 Instrumental in finalizing from 2002 till 2004 Books of Accounts & Audit in a short span of time.
 Finalization of new chart of accounts and MIS (Management Information System) as per the management requirement.
 Developed ERP Financial System based on SAP

Education

Master's degree, Finance & Marketting
  • at National institute management study
  • December 2008

I received best student award for my assignments

Bachelor's degree, Cost Accounting
  • at B.Com
  • March 1996

I was a leader of my college

Specialties & Skills

Financial Management
Quality Auditor
Working under windows environment and MS office
Microsoft Office
I.S.O. Internal Auditor
MS Office
Marketing
management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Internal Auditor (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
Valid Until:
January 2009

Hobbies

  • Cricket/keep update according to technology
    i like to play cricket, always keep update regrading new technology