Achievements:
• Quickly promoted from Financial Accountant to Assistant Finance Controller within 13 months, assuming 2 full-time positions without the need for hiring additional staff.
• Participated as Manager on Duty rotation, weekly for the resort, while serving as Asst. Finance Controller.
• Managed the operations of the Finance department leading a team of 8 employees for a property of 166 rooms and 120 employees.
• Trained every Individual in the Accounting department to do multiple tasks with a minimum of handling two jobs and developed onboard orientation for the new Chief Accountant.
• Introduced payroll/productivity concept (excel spreadsheets) which resulted in a 2% reduction in payroll and benefit cost.

Brief Responsibilities:
Manages the day to day operations of the Finance department, developing and implementing property-wide strategies that deliver services and financial results to meet or exceed the needs of the groups' target. Interpret Financial results and work with respective HOD to maximize operating results, providing them with tools for future planning.

• Direct, manage & develop Finance staff of 8 associates for a property of 166 Rooms and 120 employees
• Assists management in preparing annual operating and capital budgets and prepares monthly financial statements for at least 1 million dollar operations.
• Manage the accounting team and review work done by subordinates to ensure completeness & accuracy
• Support team staff including recruitment and talent development
• Prepare monthly management accounts including balance sheet, profit, and loss account, and supporting reconciliation schedules for management and regional corporate office
• Create multi-task staff by conducting continuous on the job training to each section
• Update and improve procedures, guidelines, documentation for full control, customer service and productivity improvement and provide ongoing performance and development assessments of staff
• Provide support during statutory audits as part of the interim fieldwork audit and year-end review process
• Communicates with all levels of executive management and handles all escalations and resolutions
• Provide support and advice to the accounting team, management, and department leaders
• Directly overlooks cost controls, payroll, payables, purchasing and store/receiving
• Monitors store issues by approving/amending requisitions on a daily basis
• Performs surprise internal audits in different areas within and other departments, to ensure policy compliance.

Achievements:
• Introduced departmental expenditure controls which resulted in the cost of sales drop by 3% in 6 months.
• Managed the implementation process by collaborating with Corporate Office during the transition of the ERP system from Old to New versions. (i.e, Sun System v4.3.3, Opera PMS, and Oasys Enterprise Payroll & e-Docs)
• Heightened efficiency in billing and month-end reporting, saving labor costs.
• Developed custom spreadsheets for budgeting and forecasting expenses quickly and accurately.
• Worked closely with external and internal auditors during the interim, quarterly and annual audits.
• Organized data in special formats for financial analysis.
• Mapped the ERP systems with Back office General Ledger SUN system.

Brief Responsibilities:
• Supporting the Finance manager mainly assisting in preparation and finalization of Financial statements
• Prepare financial accounts for general ledger and bank reconciliation's
• Assist in the preparation of monthly/quarterly/annual financial and budget reports
• Assist with the preparation of audit work papers, providing documentation and explanations as outlined in procedures; Assist internal & external auditors; Assist with month end process and complete payroll process.
• Lead, manage and develop team member performance and motivation by providing coaching, training, regular feedback and supporting development
• Management of the workload and prioritizing work to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Preparation of accurate management information including, statistical data, financial statement preparation, and management reports, on a timely basis
• Work closely with the Finance Manager to ensure the Annual Audit is managed within agreed deadlines
• Working with finance management to ensure improvements in internal processes, procedures, and controls and in particular balance sheet reconciliations
• Performing daily and monthly bank reconciliations; provides input during the annual external audit
• Working closely with management on major capital projects providing key financial support in negotiations, cost control, reporting, and scheduling

Achievements:
• Cleared all backlogs and wrong postings have done previously and provided the companies first near perfect Payables Ageing in its 15 years history.
• Developed a Payables Ageing report linking GL with Vision Excel Sun system tool.
• Taken over Accounts Payable Section as an additional full-time responsibility during the tenure of Cost Controller and trained and handed over the task to a Junior Accounts associate upon completing the tenure of Cost Controller.
• Implementation of the new payroll system Oasys Enterprise web-based version.
• Taken over Payroll as an additional full-time responsibility during the tenure of Cost Controller and continued throughout the tenure of my service.

Responsibilities in Payables:
• Prepare all the government, employee, and vendor related cheque payment and maintains a control sheet including the date, supplier name and amount.
• Check vendor statements as they are received and resolve all discrepancies directly with the vendor.
• Run the required reports at the month end and to close the account payable cycle.
• Charge all the expenses to correct account and cost center, petty cash by recording entry verifying documentation.
• Maintain accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.
• Maintain a proper record of the filing method which is easy for an audit purpose.
• Reconciles the supplier cheque payment with the system and S.O.A to generate payments.

Responsibilities in Payroll:
• Develop, initiate, maintain, and review policies and procedures for the general operation of the Payroll for 120 employees.
• Manages all HR functions including new hires/termination, benefits administration, maintaining employee records, safety records and incident reporting.
• Manage payroll, invoice contract labor, labor cost distribution, and labor estimates for 4 contractors. Developed reporting for senior management to include labor cost distribution, safety hours, and job cost reports.
• Created streamlined payroll processes resulting in increased accuracy and higher productivity.
• Calculated manual checks for employees, including those with weighted over time. Accurately computed and withheld voluntary payroll deductions.
• Composed payroll reports ensuring accuracy; Compiled department payroll reports for budgeting purposes.
• Preparing and posting monthly accrual journal vouchers related to employee benefits such as Annual Leave, Gratuity, Air Ticket, Health/Life Insurance, Bonus, Accommodation, Utility, Social Insurance, and other variable benefits.
• Communicated and enforced timekeeping guidelines to department managers to ensure adherence to company policies.

Achievements:
• Awarded Heart of the month for the month of February 2013.
• Reduced Food & Beverage cost by 3% by using volume purchases and by collecting more FOC stocks.
• Implemented & managed Inventory system transition from Fidelio DOS to Oracle based Fidelio Materials Control by creating all system Master data and Mapping the interface to the General Ledger system.
• Linked Micros POS to the FMC Inventory system and attached all article recipes in order and achieved an automated POT stock calculation after the daily sales run.
• Developed a manual for inventory procedures covering operational processes for returns, organization, and storage of inventory. Implementation reduced shrinkage by half.
• Managed material cost savings initiative including organizing and managing cooperation between sales, purchasing, and engineering. Achieving 3-4% of annual cost savings.

Responsibilities in Cost Controls:
• Business Control knowledge and proficiency in developing budgets and forecasts
• Conduct periodic reviews with procurement to establish and maintain forecasts for all packages including estimate at completion and expenditure forecasts
• Conduct regular spot checks on procedures for purchasing, receiving, storing, issuing
• Lead the cost changes or deviations. Alert on thresholds and enhance controls.
• Integrate with various functional disciplines as a team player ensuring the right inputs for the accurate forecasting.
• Performing analyses for product pricing, order valuation, forecasting and management decision making
• Prepares the schedule and staffing for inventory taking, directs it ensuring that stock counting is organized and accurate.
• Conducting surprise inventories in stores as well as outlets other than month end inventory
• Investigates major minibar rebates and briefs the Financial Controller & Management
• Secure robust and documented decision material for the management
• Responsible for calculating the accounting entries for production (reporting monthly for the group and quarterly for statutory)

Responsibilities in Purchasing:
• Created purchase orders and had each signed by production managers.
• Oversaw purchase order shipments by managing deadlines and cancellation dates.
• Ensured that the right amount of materials were delivered to the production pallet at the right time.
• Monitored all purchase requisitions and handled adjustments with vendors.
• Contacted each vendor and recorded information regarding price, availability, and quality of products.
• Collaborated with internal and external customers and managed all pricing and availability of all products.
• Ensured compliance with company procedures and contract requirements. Performed negotiations for contract terms and conditions.
• Mapped process activities to identify shortfalls and identify options to rectify operational inefficiencies.
• Purchased new products and oversaw all inventory to ensure merchandise was well-stocked.
• Improved inspection policies to increase the quality of raw materials and finished goods.
• Coordinated paperwork, updated spreadsheets and maintained permanent records.
• Organized receipts, purchases and the documentation of finished goods, packaging, materials, and ingredients.
• Verified the receipt of items by comparing items received to items ordered and resolved shipment order errors with suppliers.
• Performed monthly reconciliation of open purchasing orders.
• Submitted monthly reports to senior management.

Achievement:
• Cleared 7 months of Backlog and streamlined the inventory and reporting online within 2 months of joining.
• Linked IDS POS to the IDS Inventory system and attached all article recipes in order and achieved an automated POT stock calculation after the daily sales run.

Responsibilities:
• Process and receive invoices for Purchasing, Food & Beverage outlets, Property management into the IDS inventory system.
• Process & track all store/direct issues from Main stores and Purchasing to outlets.
• Calculate daily flash cost, conduct surprise outlet inventories, and month end outlet wise Inventories and prepare outlet wise food & beverage cost; Calculates and maintains the Menu Pricing, Consumption, and POS systems
• Collected and reported monthly expense variances and explanations.
• Control the Food and Beverage outlets in terms of wastage, pilferage, and efficiency
• Update and maintain receipts and recipes into the Inventory system.
• Link articles created in POS system and attach them to recipes created for POT calculation to update Stock on Hand
• Verify voids, partial guest discounts, happy hours, complimentary, staff meals, staff discounts passed in POS system
• Update selling prices in POS as per the instruction from authorized persons.
• Daily import POS sales to Inventory system for sales run which updates the outlet Stock on Hand
• Coordinate with restaurant management and finance to sort out issues pertaining to F&B
• Conducting yield test of raw, frozen, chilled items and prepare and submit proper costing

Achievements:
• Awarded Best Employee for the month of July 2009.
• Linked Micros POS to the FMC Inventory system and attached all article recipes in order and achieved an automated POT stock calculation after the daily sales run.
• Worked closely with the corporate office and IT department during the transition of the ERP system from Old to New versions. (Softwares: Fidelio Materials Control, Micros 3700).

Responsibilities:
• Preparing the costing for recipes and menus prepared by the Executive Chef
• Posting and filing inter outlet food and beverage transfers; Verifying outlet void checks on a daily basis
• Auditing the restaurant bills with KOTs for any shortages or under charges
• Verifying the outlet open item report to see that correct pricing has been applied
• Controlling and tracking steward sales issues and prepares a monthly summary for the same
• Verifies and records beverages and samples received at free of cost
• Inspecting receiving bay by cross-checking invoices with the food & beverage articles received
• Butcher yield test is done, randomly to keep a check on wastage and update costing as per new yielded rates
• Conducting surprise outlet and stores inventory and prepare and forward variance report to Cost Controller

Achievements:
• Developed a daily sales report for the head office.
• Performed Food & Beverage Inventory as the accountant was absent.
• Developed a Daily expense report and prepared a bank reconciliation for the head office.

Responsibilities:
• To receive guests and members in a friendly and attractive manner and seat the customers on their table.
• To handle complaints if possible and to refer these complaints to the café in charge if necessary.
• Attend to guest needs as per requirement.
• Open cheques as and when orders start coming.
• Post all bills immediately and return a copy of the settled bills for the guest.
• Report immediately to Café in charge for any missing cheque.
• Prepare and submit sales summary for the day, tallying cash and credit card charge bills and to hand over to the accountant.

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