Senior Accountant

Seeking a long-term opportunity within the business community, where my professional experience, education, and abilities would be advantageous to the growth of my employer and myself.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Sr Accountant – Treasury & Credit Management, Dubai & Northern Emirates
March 2008 –Till date
Inchcape Shipping Services LLC.
ISS is the world's largest independent shipping agency network, with a world-wide network over 255 offices spread across 47 countries, and brings together more than ten decades of cumulative experience of professionals with profound knowledge of shipping, freight forwarding and logistics from their respective backgrounds like Port Agency (Ship Services), Defenses Services, Liner Services, Cargo Services (International Freight Forwarding, Air & Sea Cargo, Warehousing & Distribution) & Lloyds Agents and P&I Club's Correspondents.
Responsibilities
Handle the treasury, capital expenditure, credit control, etc. Prepare financial reports for Senior Management decision making Review and improve the current reporting and documentation processes and systems. Controlled credit limits. Obtained on-line credit references. Applied credit limits & Applied court action where necessary.Cash management accounting with the banking functions. Preparation of financial analysis to cash master for both defenses & port agency services. Presentation of cash flow & customer analysis with credit limits -weekly and monthly variance analysis to Sales team & Senior management.

Senior Accountant
April 2003 – March 2008
Bridgeway Shipping & Clearing LLC, Dubai

Responsibilities:
Compiling and analyzing the daily sales revenue. Creating and maintaining daily and monthly financial reports – MIS, sales, purchases, overheads, reconciliation statements, profit & loss, profitability analysis, etc. Monitoring credit balances of debtors and creditors on a regular basis. Evaluating and approving of credit applications from customers, suppliers and dealers negotiating with banks for credit facilities, processing of bank loans and other facilities.Internal yearly auditing Administering payroll, bonuses, incentives to company staff Involvement in sourcing, procurement, purchase and inventory control Ensuring compliant with internal controls and accounting standards Quarterly planning and budgetary control and variance analysis

Certified Accountant
Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA)UK Status: Currently pursuing

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com)
University of Madras, Chennai, India
Specialization in Accounting March 2001

PROFICIENCIES

Accounting: EX-NGN (Business Accounting Software) – Trained at Tata Consulting Services
E-Commerce: SQL Server, Oracle Businesses, HTML, JAVA, JavaScript, VbScript, DHTML, XML, ASP, IIS, BIZ Stock, Site servers
Technical: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Outlook
Linguistic: English, Hindi