Finance Controller
Ecolab
Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months
Responsibilities: Supporting $250M Business operations covering Middle East and North Africa with manufacturing plants in UAE, Saudi & Egypt and multiple toll & 3PL operations.
• Promoted to Regional Controller role in 2018 for consistently delivering results exceeding expectations.
• Business Advisor and Controller of Total Delivered Costs $120M (Standard Costs, Purchase Price Variances, Plant Labor Overhead Absorptions, Logistics, Operational Admin Costs).
• Prepare Annual Supply Chain Operations Business Plan and set financial KPI targets.
• Lead Excess & Obsolete Inventory Cost reduction (Delivered $1M help to P&L).
• Financial lead for Loss Elimination, Saving, & Rationalization projects (Delivered $0.5M help to P&L) and capital investment projects ($20M worth of growth & productivity projects).
• Lead and improved Month-end closing activities, COGS variances analysis & plant management reporting with actions driven commentary, produced & delivered forecasts.
• Implemented standard cost setup, automation reports, cycle count process, process improvements & ensured strong financial controls.
GCC Services - is the portfolios of companies offering supply chain solutions, remote site infrastructure development, Construction, Facilities Management & Food supply.
Key Responsibilities include
Perform planning process & develop annual budget, produce periodic forecasts.
In-depth Analysis & reporting of financial/operational results in relation to budget/forecast/prior period results.
Perform monthly closing, Group consolidation (HFM), review, finalize and deliver monthly MIS reporting pack to Management & operations team.
Perform Working Capital analysis, track & report Inventory levels.
Produce Sales forecasts & cash flow projections.
Manage funding requirements & monitor bank facilities.
Support Operations KPI development, monitoring & reporting.
Develop project models, analyze profitability & challenge operational assumptions. Perform Capital budgeting and monitor & report capital spending.
Implement accounting procedures, develop reporting systems, budgetary controls and continuous monitoring & report spending profile.
Support complex financial/operational projects related to accounting policy, pricing & evaluate the impact to stakeholders.
Ma’aden Aluminium (Ma’aden - Alcoa Joint Venture) is the largest and most efficient vertically integrated aluminium complex in the world - Ras Al Khair
FP&A, MIS Reporting, Accounts Closing, Financial Reporting
Detailed Responsibilities include
Budgeting and forecasting: Interact with the business team to develop and ensure efficient annual budgets, monthly forecasts and rolling plans.
Perform periodic MIS Reports, presentations to Management committee.
Track & report departmental spending profile, performance analysis against plan, variance analysis, expenditure trends, budget availability on monthly basis.
Implement and Develop Business Intelligence tools (Hyperion Planning, OBIEE), EPR Systems to support and simplify financial analysis and reporting.
Support business team in KPI development, monitoring & reporting on timely basis and assist leadership team in decision making.
Prepare monthly accruals & perform monthly accounts closing process, analyze and review of ledger accounts.
Track & review sustaining capex & project capex.
Review of Financials & Analyse Cash Flow.
Perform product costing and analyze elements of cost & product profitability.
Manage the inventory control process & support the operational team in optimizing inventory management.
Coordinate with audit team for smooth audit closure.
Vedanta Resources Plc, London Stock Exchange listed & FTSE 100 Global Metals & Mining Group having Aluminium Smelter (1.75MTPA) - Orissa.
MIS Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Reporting, Costing, Accounts & Audit
Key Responsibilities included:
Develop annual Budget, Rolling Plans and perform monthly Forecast.
Perform periodic MIS Reports, Monthly presentations and report on timely to ensure this assists in decision making.
Review & Analyze Variances & Achievements against Budget Plan.
Track & Monitor Key parameters (KPI) and analyze the deviations against targets.
Review of Financials & Analyse Cash Flow.
Perform product cost accounting and profitability analysis & analyse different elements of cost against budged cost.
Implement and Develop Hyperion Planning, HFM and EPR Systems to support in financial planning, analysis and reporting.
Review of Inventory, Working Capital & Analyse Funds Flow.
Coordinate with Internal Audit team & External Audit team for monthly MIS signoff & quarterly accounts closure.
Exposed to Currency hedging, ECB & Foreign Currency Loans.
Exposed to Foreign trade policy, Central Excise, Value added taxes
Accounting, Financial Reporting, Auditing, Taxation, Financial Management
Performed Internal Audits & Statutory Audits for Manufacturing Industries (Fertilizers, Plastics, Metal, Power, Textile etc.) lead the Audit Team & Review and finalization of Audit Reports.
Finalization of Accounts, Review of Financials & Preparation of financial statements.
Review of Financials, Analyse Cash Flow and Ration Analysis.
Working Capital Analysis& Projections, Debtors Aging Analysis.
Indirect Taxation - Central Excise, Service tax, Customs & Sales Tax.
Export & Import Procedures, RBI&FEMA Regulations.
Taxation for Companies, Firms & Individuals under the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Requirements of Employee & Labor related Laws.
Ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and provisions.
Secured Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting. Cleared Financial Strategy paper in Strategy level. CMA finalist.
Associate Member of Chartered Accountant(ACA). Cleared all levels in single attempt. CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT,Financial Analysis,Financial Reporting,Cost Analysis,Auditing,Taxation
Secured All India 13th Rank in CMA final level examinations.
B.Com graduated in March'2008
