Praveen Das

Manager – Finance and Operations

 Skilled and dynamic ‘Manager – Finance and Operations’ with a total of 11+ years work experience in the field of
Finance, General Accounting, Audit, Tax Compliance and UAE VAT. Having worked in SAP FI, People Soft,
Quick Books, Hyperion, Tally 9 and MS Office.
 Chartered Accountancy (CA) - Inter and Bachelor in Commerce - Finance.

Last Resume Update May 12, 2019
Address Dubai, United Arab Emirates
E-mail [email protected]
Phone Number +971581764654

Experience

Omar Al Ali Auditing LLC (RBS Accounting and Auditing)
Manager – Finance and Operations
Feb 2018 - Current

Strategic Management
 Monitor and control the quality and cost-effectiveness of services provided by the firm to ensure high standards
and value for money
 Managing financial services assurance of portfolio of international and local clients
 Business development by meeting the prospective clients and growing the business of the firm
 Forward planning and the effective daily organization activities, including resource planning, firm’s internal policy
setting, financial forecasting and strategic decision making
 Managing cash flows of the firm, using leading and lagging methods to improve the cash flows
Staff Management/Deployment
 Leading audit teams during field work and managing internal and external audits of companies and soleestablishments
 Coach, train, mentor and develop staffs to upgrade their skills
 To liaise with the Managing Partners to ensure staffing levels are maintained, recruiting effective staff as
necessary, in line with relevant client expectations and deliverable requirements
 To effectively manage the performance of the team by carrying out progress reviews and ensuring objectives and
key performance indicators are met
Client Relationship Management
 Engaging with clients and transfer of knowledge acquired with the staff to continue the deliverables
 Building business partnerships
 Maintaining client relationships and escalations
 Conducting business reviews to ensure clients are satisfied with the services
VAT Consulting
 Ensuring VAT compliance checks for clients and review of tax returns
 Conducting VAT reviews and client visits, providing opinions on VAT scenarios for clients
 Interpreting VAT act, planning and providing VAT opinions. Interacting with Federal Tax Authority
 Conducting VAT training workshops for clients
Acting CFO for clients
 Provide ad-hoc financial planning and analysis, business cases and commercial decision support to the clients
 Performing CFO responsibilities for clients, leading monthly performance management meetings
 Effective financial control, reporting and consolidation
Other roles
 Valuation of businesses for divesture, sale and mergers
 Project valuations and MIS reporting
 Providing transaction advisory services

IQVIA (Quintiles Research India Pvt Ltd)
Assistant Manager Finance
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018

Preparation of Balance sheet and bank reconciliations including assignment of reconciliations to preparers for
European and African region
 Providing technical assistance to KPI dashboards to the management and preparing KPIs for banking and GL
team
 Power user role (PeopleSoft): As a technical-finance role, providing solutions to accounting issues to users across
all global entity:
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 Setting up accounting coding, updating or amending accounting combinations such as department, SBUs, regions
and projects based on tickets.
 Resolving errors that may arise on journals across AP, EX, GL, AM modules and posting them.
 Performing month end revaluation runs, opening and closing periods for all modules.
 Working with asset management team in resolution of queries
 Robotic Process Automation: Performing tests to automate banking processes

Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
Team Lead Finance
Aug 2015 - Apr 2019

Computing depreciations, cost allocation workings, decommissioning calculations and joint venture operation
results
 Review and processing of journal entries in SAP
 Preparation and publishing of Month end reports
 Review of balance sheet reconciliations and following up and managing open Items
 Allocating and supervising the activities of the team and managing the capacity and productivity of the team
 Preparation of management reports such as profit and loss analysis, investment analysis, general and
administrative expenditure analysis and other ad hoc reports
 Member of interview panelist for the project and responsible for managing recruits
 Single point of contact for operational excellence reporting

ITC InfoTech India Limited,
Assistant Manager - Finance
Oct 2014 - Aug 2015

Review and approval of purchase orders for compliance with company accounting policies and standard
operating procedures
 Ensuring correct and appropriate accounting ledger, project and resource allocations for revenue and capital
expenditure
 Tracking capital expenditure against budgets and reviewing the feasibility of asset acquisition
 Coordinating and review of asset write-off justification from various departments within the company
 Overview of assets created in the accounting system by integrating purchasing module and payable module
 Compliance of Schedule II of Companies act, 2013 and reporting of assets as per AS-10
 Computing depreciation as per company law and Indian GAAP and matching with accounting system and
reconciliations
 Supporting and coordinating of internal and statutory audits in areas concerning fixed assets.
 Preparation of financial reports
 Payroll uploads into the accounting system and monthly reconciliations
 Collating data for support documentation for insurance of capex items and sending to insurance team

Veyance Technologies Inc
Assistant Manager – Finance
May 2012 - Oct 2014

Handling accounting and allied activities for 3 entities within Asian region (Singapore, Japan and India)
 Record keeping, retention, retrieval in general and particularly for audits and statutory book keeping requirements
 Accounting in SAP for Japan and India including monthly reconciliations, month end forex run, profit and cost
center analysis and reconciliations
 Reporting business-wise weekly sales forecast and three months rolling sales forecast to regional leadership
finance team
 Month end financial statement review and analysis and report on monthly business review for monthly results
including working with multiple teams for inputs and consolidation
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 Assisting in annual audit, tax preparation and filing and monthly regulatory compliance for India, Singapore and
Japan which includes
- Assist with any state sales tax; consumption tax and value added tax (VAT) audit needs
- Preparation, review and filing of returns with Central Bank for India
- Preparation, review and filing of returns with service taxes, excise duties, custom and additional excise
duties and income taxes
- Preparation, review and compliance to Indian transfer pricing requirement
- Assisting in quarterly tax accounting and annual reporting under US – GAAP
 Co-ordination with local book-keeping consultants and review of SG&A department expense for Japan and
Singapore
 Engage with customers and the sales team as appropriate to address accounts receivable situations for Japan,
Singapore and Korea and maximizing cash flows for the region
 Ensuring policies and procedures for timely and accurate compliance with local regulatory requirements

H. R. Suresh and Co, Chartered Accountants
Article Assistant (CA)
Jul 2007 - Jan 2011

Due diligence of a company. Analyzing the vendor company’s future prospects and reporting on the financial
feasibility of the takeover
 Preparation of computation and filing of returns under income tax, service tax and state level value added tax
including central sales tax
 Statutory audits of company trust including finalization of books of accounts, preparation of audit reports and filing
of tax returns
 Internal audit and Company law compliance
 Tax audits of companies, trusts, partnership firms and personal taxations of Individuals
 Handling direct taxation matters of companies, partnership firms, and trusts

Education

Bangalore University
Bachelor of Commerce – Finance
Jun 2006 - May 2009
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Chartered Accountancy – Intermediate
Jun 2006 - Dec 2012

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