
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 |
[email protected] | |
Phone Number | +971581764654 |
Experience
Manager – Finance and Operations
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
Assistant Manager Finance
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
Team Lead Finance
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
Assistant Manager - Finance
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
Assistant Manager – Finance
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
Article Assistant (CA)
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
Bachelor of Commerce – Finance
Chartered Accountancy – Intermediate