RAJESH DESHKULKARNI GOPAL

• Control Group of Company’s Accounting and month-end closing under newly implemented ERP system
• Lead ERP implementation including closing in previous Accounting System and migration of data into new ERP system. Designed, tested the requirements and proactively initiated effective ERP environment across the Group of Companies. Guided ERP development team to ensure all Accounting/Finance, Operations, Procurement & HR divisions requirements are fulfilled in line with Company’s vision.
• Achieved maximum INPUT credit by maintaining appropriate documents in line with VAT law compliance
• Lead Group of Company’s VAT implementation and successfully filed VAT returns for all 6 individual entities
• Guided various Subcontractors & suppliers to issue an appropriate Tax Invoices to ease our INPUT credit claims
• Designed Tax-Invoice and guided team members to issue Tax Invoices as per VAT law requirements
• Encouraged team members and other division members to ensure VAT law requirements are strictly adhered
• Presentation and training provided on basic requirements of VAT law
• Designed Chart of Accounts and Job Cost Centers including Inter-Company Accounting
• Achieved recovery of Accounts receivables AED 1 Million + which are aged 150+ days
• Control & track day-to-day Groups Bank balance position of 10+ Bank Accounts including PDC management
• Dealt parallel accounting and migrated Accounting data into ERP system without hindering day-to-day activities
• Negotiated various major payment terms with Vendors to maintain optimum Cash-flow to match with receivables
• Designed & introduced effective Petty Cash control worksheet and reduced 2-3 hours/day in maintaining day-to-day Group’s complex Centralized Petty-Cash control tracking sheet. It also replaced previous 100+ individual employee’s petty cash transaction history worksheets.

Control overall Accounting, Banking, Financial & Operations of RETAIL division

 Multi-brand retail segment accounting & month-end closing using ERP (Microsoft Dynamics-GP)
 Inter-Company Accounting, Reconciliation & Consolidation
 Handle treasury operations, Bank Reconciliation
 Insurance policies of Stores and Properties
 Point of Sales (PoS), Cash/Card Sales collections & reconciliations
 Invoicing & account receivables
 Multi-currency payments to Vendors
 Review monthly purchase orders & intra-store inventory transfers
 Handle property management, Accounting, PDC cheques, Service-Charges & Property Insurance