Finance & Control Manager
Nestle
Total years of experience :25 years, 9 Months
Worked as a Head of the Finance and Control Dept. and Co-Pilot - in charge of entire country operations in absence of General Manager.
Acted as a Controller of entire organizational standard operating procedures.
Responsible for financial reporting, profitability analysis as well as setting of budget.
Reviewed customer performance and amending periodically credit facilities and Risk Categories;
Active member of Core Decision making Team and present Monthly Operational Review.
Made decisions and implemented best practice & self-assessment periodically.
Dealt with auditors, tax authorities and internal, international & external auditors as well as with banks.
Oversaw all aspects of financial control in the business and providing financial, commercial and strategic support to the business.
Prepared management information from source data as well as produced monthly management accounts, budgets, forecasts & Corporate Tax returns.
Presented monthly results, budget variances and Adhoc analysis as well as took care of Business Planning, P&L, Balance sheet & liquidity planning.
Oversaw internal financial controls, recording monies received and paid out and produced meaningful commentary and analysis of financial data.
Prepared and reported income and expense forecasts to senior management; developed, managed and motivated a team of finance professionals.
Approver role in SAP P2P, AR& Treasury transactions.
Systematically monitored GR/IR, On Time Payment, Inventory &near Expiry Control.
Authorize Payroll/Final settlement payoff, member of appraisal and recruitment panel.
Organize Capex forecast by Department and monitor purchases as per guidelines.
Significant Highlights:
Accountable for setting-up of Nestle operations, defining budgetary control and monitoring in fixed expenses and distribution cost in 2004.
Worked as a SAP implementation project team Head for on time completion with accuracy in 2007- 2008.
Efficiently transformed FICO/AR/AP/HR to shared services on time in 2010.
Transfer price negotiation with principle supplier resulted considerable profit margin (US$ 1.4 Mio PA) as well as saved from discontinuation of product in2012.
Job Responsibilities:
Manage and Supervise Accounting Department in the Corporate Office.
Other Areas: Banking, Foreign Trade and Insurance claims, finalization & MIS of Hong Kong based subsidiary company
Achievements:
- Developed a Foreign Trade transaction module reduced/controlled OD by 10% - year 1998
- Strong Payroll policy modulated in Excel transformed into Oracle - year 2000
- New Incentive scheme to customers on achievements made 20% savings - year 2002
Job Responsibilities:
Managed entire Accounting team and it’s operation in Tally
Maintain personnel books of the Directors and their wealth records
Achievements:
Transformation from manual accounting to Tally (one of the few initial users of Tally) - year 1992
Chartered Accountant's firm
Responsibilities: Basic Principles of Accounting and Finalizing the books & Bank Auditing
Achievements: Found a critical evidence of unauthorized granting of Loans in SBI's (SSI Br. - Yr. 1989)
2009 MBA (International Business) Annamalai University, India
1986 Bachelor of Commerce Calicut University, India