Business Head & Finance Manager
BVM Transport LLC (Alrama Group)
Total years of experience :17 years, 6 Months
Heading BVM Transport LLC, a business unit of the group to self to sustain and create marginal growth along with bringing the unit completely on the auto operative mode from an unstructured work environment.
• In charge for the logistics business unit.
• Providing financial results to board members.
• Participate and drive business growth and financial management.
• Develop and design management policies to a strong business growth.
• ERP implementation and group accounting restricting to help group consolidation of financial results.
Working a diverse business system with interest in various industry & business verticals. Responsible for overall financial management, fund sourcing & investment appraisals.
• In charge for working capital management.
• Coordinate fund sourcing through banks and finance houses
• Develop policies & best practices on employee management, vendor and client management
• Migration to ERP environment from simple computer environment.
• Project appraisals and preparation of Financial feasibility for new investments
Responsibilities: Financial Control, Asset Management, Budgeting, Cash Management, Administration.
Achievements:
•In charge to bring complete accounting records to statutory compliance and all statutory payments online.
•Brought in channel management policy along with strong asset tracking for assets placed at distributors.
•Brought in significant changes in receivables and thereby bring strong liquidity position.
•Brought in overdue loan repayments to prepayments with strong focus on payment collections
•Acted direct representative for two tax audits and negotiated exemptions to bring tax backlogs online.
•Setup relationships with banks to access greater borrowing facilities.
•Develop accounting & management policies to obtained ISO certification & comply audits with KPMG.
•Additionally conducted a financial feasibility and viability study to set up a fruit juice making plant in one of the rural parts of Kenya with a project value of $5 million through external funding.
Responsibilities : Design and draft policies and process through interaction between all stakeholders of the company:
Achievements:
•Introduced policy on client service contract and receivables system.
•Coordinate system development with all departments for obtaining ISO certification.
•Draft basic guideline as ready reference guide on office processes with focus on transaction movement from start to end between various functions of the business
Responsibilities: Growing along from being first employee to Manager Finance & Administration my responsibility in this bootstrap startup offering marketing support services, the responsibilities varied from accounting to marketing & HR to administration.
Achievements:
•In charge for complete finance and accounting activities of multiple office locations.
•Developed a complete HR & Administration policy manual.
•Created a complete payroll system using MS excel and MS access to generate complete payroll including tax filing both for employee and company.
•Negotiated and established bank facilities.
•Brought in project wise profit tracking by identifying and creating profit centers and cost enters within the unit.
•Spearheaded Finance, Accounting & Admin functions team of two growing companies together for 3 years.
•Designed and coordinated MIS with investors offshore.
• MBA - Finance from University of Madurai Kamraj - November 2009 • Expert level typing & well acquainted with use of Microsoft platform.