OBJECTIVE
To obtain a challenging financial management position in a competitive organization where I can apply my financial, technical and managerial skills and knowledge.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Financial Planning & Analysis – Internal Controls & Compliance - Financial Budgeting & Forecasting – Finance & Accounts Management – Treasury Management – Working Capital Management – Accounts Receivable – Accounts Payable– Internal Audit & Control – Taxation – MIS - Statutory Compliance and Legal Matters – SAP FICO & ERP (AR, AP & CM modules)-Bank Reconciliation- IATA Airline Revenue Accounting (BSP)
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
- MBA (Finance & Marketing) with over 7 years of experience in achieving revenue, profit and business growth objectives within turnaround and rapid change environments.
- Managed entire finance operations of Air India and Air India Express region.
- Proficient in recommending procedures with proven ability to achieve financial discipline to enhance the overall efficiency of the organization.
- Deft in overall funds management coupled with distinguished ability in conducting Financial Audit / Assessment and handling Direct Tax & Service Tax related matters.
- Expertise at designing and implementing systems / procedures with proven ability to achieve financial discipline and enhancing overall efficiency of the organization.
- Team leader to effectively meet goals through leadership, interpersonal communication and analytical abilities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Air India Express 2008 – 2015
Air India Express is a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India Limited, the national carrier of India.
Role
- Finance Officer (AR & AP ), Reporting to CFO
Responsibilities
Accounts Receivables:
- Liaise with customers on daily basis, execute collection activities, reconcile and track weekly/monthly AR balance accounts with customer records
- Timely update of receipt to client account and proper control over collections.
- Prepare weekly and monthly invoices, AR and cash sales report on a timely basis.
- Reconcile customer accounts in order to clear discrepancies/queries thus have a clear position of payments and out standings.
- Work closely with customers and other key departments within company for billing and also mitigating collection risk
- Calculating recovering legitimate dues from Agents by raising Debit Memos (ADMs in BSP)
- Ensure proper accounting and reporting of AR transactions on daily basis, receive monthly reports from the offline offices and record transactions in SAP.
- Revenue Cash Collection Management and complete management of Petty Cash for the Station.
Accounts Payables:
- Accounts Payable function including processing vendor invoices, inter-company invoices and billing, staff expense claim, miscellaneous payment requests etc.
- Remitting TDS within due dates and issuing TDS certificates on annual basis.
- Reconcile vendor accounts in order to clear discrepancies/queries thus have a clear position of payments and out standings.
- Ensuring all AP invoices are posted in accounting systems with appropriate account number assigned and with detailed descriptions on a daily basis
- Responsible in liaising with vendors on discrepancies on Invoices or Statement of Account.
- Calculating and disbursing Agent’s incentives by raising credit Memos(ACM in BSP).
General Responsibilities
- Monitor daily bank position.
- Recruiting and inducting the accounts assistants by conducting training and providing proper guidance.
- Supervise and managing account assistants to adhere timeline and ensuring all reporting deadlines are met.
- Works with other departments or employees and ensure that finance guidelines are followed.
- Ensuring proper accounting of all types of financial transactions in SAP.
- Prepare monthly GL, bank reconciliations, other MIS reports and follow up on outstanding item.
- Support audit, tax, other statutory requirements and ad-hoc Finance/Accounting related projects/initiatives.
- Manage general accounting and reporting, recording of accounting transaction on daily basis, receive monthly reports from the offline offices and record transactions in SAP.
- Compliance with financial accounting standards as well as taxation and other statutory rules and regulations.
Achievements
- Proficiently managed an online office and three offline offices that generated around $ 95 million of revenues per annum. Calicut region is rated amongst the top-5 revenue earning regions for Air India Express and Air India globally.
- Successfully headed finance department as the in-charge by taking over leadership of all finance operations after just 1.5 years after joining.
- Proactively controlled on board sales revenue leakage 100% by implementing new method and guidelines.
- Gained expertise to the level of managing the whole station financial operations in ERP / SAP.
- Undertook the first ever initiative to turn the entire station fully online in SAP Accounts Payable module.
- Introduced fully online reconciliation of Air-India Express revenue.
- Ranked first in the initial training given by Air India Express.
JRG Securities, Cochin Oct 2007 – Jun 2008
Role
- Team Leader.
Responsibilities
- Recruiting and training the telemarketers and achieving the sales targets for financial products.
Achievements
- Successfully achieved sales target for company’s financial products.
- Bagged the top performer award for 2 months.
EDUCATION
● MBA (Finance Management & Marketing Management) from University of Calicut, Kerala (University second rank holder) – 2007
● B.Tech (Computer Science) from N.S.S College of Engineering, University of Calicut, Kerala – 2005
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Airline / Accounting:
● SAP FI-(AP, AR, CM and Payroll Module) & ERP (Oracle 11i-AR, AP & CM Module) SITA Reservation and Check-in, BSP (IATA), Radixx.
IT SKILLS:
● MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint).
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Date of Birth: 15th February 1983
Address: #13-387, Blk 637D, Punggol Drive, Singapore 824637
Linguistic Abilities: English, Hindi and Malayalam
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a challenging financial management position in a competitive organization where I can apply my financial, technical and managerial skills and knowledge.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Financial Planning & Analysis – Internal Controls & Compliance - Financial Budgeting & Forecasting – Finance & Accounts Management – Treasury Management – Working Capital Management – Accounts Receivable – Accounts Payable– Internal Audit & Control – Taxation – MIS - Statutory Compliance and Legal Matters – SAP FICO & ERP (AR, AP & CM modules)-Bank Reconciliation- IATA Airline Revenue Accounting (BSP)
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
- MBA (Finance & Marketing) with over 7 years of experience in achieving revenue, profit and business growth objectives within turnaround and rapid change environments.
- Managed entire finance operations of Air India and Air India Express region.
- Proficient in recommending procedures with proven ability to achieve financial discipline to enhance the overall efficiency of the organization.
- Deft in overall funds management coupled with distinguished ability in conducting Financial Audit / Assessment and handling Direct Tax & Service Tax related matters.
- Expertise at designing and implementing systems / procedures with proven ability to achieve financial discipline and enhancing overall efficiency of the organization.
- Team leader to effectively meet goals through leadership, interpersonal communication and analytical abilities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Air India Express 2008 – 2015
Air India Express is a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India Limited, the national carrier of India.
Role
- Finance Officer (AR & AP ), Reporting to CFO
Responsibilities
Accounts Receivables:
- Liaise with customers on daily basis, execute collection activities, reconcile and track weekly/monthly AR balance accounts with customer records
- Timely update of receipt to client account and proper control over collections.
- Prepare weekly and monthly invoices, AR and cash sales report on a timely basis.
- Reconcile customer accounts in order to clear discrepancies/queries thus have a clear position of payments and out standings.
- Work closely with customers and other key departments within company for billing and also mitigating collection risk
- Calculating recovering legitimate dues from Agents by raising Debit Memos (ADMs in BSP)
- Ensure proper accounting and reporting of AR transactions on daily basis, receive monthly reports from the offline offices and record transactions in SAP.
- Revenue Cash Collection Management and complete management of Petty Cash for the Station.
Accounts Payables:
- Accounts Payable function including processing vendor invoices, inter-company invoices and billing, staff expense claim, miscellaneous payment requests etc.
- Remitting TDS within due dates and issuing TDS certificates on annual basis.
- Reconcile vendor accounts in order to clear discrepancies/queries thus have a clear position of payments and out standings.
- Ensuring all AP invoices are posted in accounting systems with appropriate account number assigned and with detailed descriptions on a daily basis
- Responsible in liaising with vendors on discrepancies on Invoices or Statement of Account.
- Calculating and disbursing Agent’s incentives by raising credit Memos(ACM in BSP).
General Responsibilities
- Monitor daily bank position.
- Recruiting and inducting the accounts assistants by conducting training and providing proper guidance.
- Supervise and managing account assistants to adhere timeline and ensuring all reporting deadlines are met.
- Works with other departments or employees and ensure that finance guidelines are followed.
- Ensuring proper accounting of all types of financial transactions in SAP.
- Prepare monthly GL, bank reconciliations, other MIS reports and follow up on outstanding item.
- Support audit, tax, other statutory requirements and ad-hoc Finance/Accounting related projects/initiatives.
- Manage general accounting and reporting, recording of accounting transaction on daily basis, receive monthly reports from the offline offices and record transactions in SAP.
- Compliance with financial accounting standards as well as taxation and other statutory rules and regulations.
Achievements
- Proficiently managed an online office and three offline offices that generated around $ 95 million of revenues per annum. Calicut region is rated amongst the top-5 revenue earning regions for Air India Express and Air India globally.
- Successfully headed finance department as the in-charge by taking over leadership of all finance operations after just 1.5 years after joining.
- Proactively controlled on board sales revenue leakage 100% by implementing new method and guidelines.
- Gained expertise to the level of managing the whole station financial operations in ERP / SAP.
- Undertook the first ever initiative to turn the entire station fully online in SAP Accounts Payable module.
- Introduced fully online reconciliation of Air-India Express revenue.
- Ranked first in the initial training given by Air India Express.
JRG Securities, Cochin Oct 2007 – Jun 2008
Role
- Team Leader.
Responsibilities
- Recruiting and training the telemarketers and achieving the sales targets for financial products.
Achievements
- Successfully achieved sales target for company’s financial products.
- Bagged the top performer award for 2 months.
EDUCATION
● MBA (Finance Management & Marketing Management) from University of Calicut, Kerala (University second rank holder) – 2007
● B.Tech (Computer Science) from N.S.S College of Engineering, University of Calicut, Kerala – 2005
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Airline / Accounting:
● SAP FI-(AP, AR, CM and Payroll Module) & ERP (Oracle 11i-AR, AP & CM Module) SITA Reservation and Check-in, BSP (IATA), Radixx.
IT SKILLS:
● MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint).
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Date of Birth: 15th February 1983
Address: #13-387, Blk 637D, Punggol Drive, Singapore 824637
Linguistic Abilities: English, Hindi and Malayalam
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