1. Career Milestones
Shell India Markets Private Limited (Jun’97 – Apr’16)
(Shell is a multinational Oil & gas company. Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas
industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation
and trading.)
Tax Specialist (US), Chennai - Jan 2014 – Apr’16
 Computation & filling of advance US state income tax, Extension to file annual income tax
returns, Payments and Annual US State Income tax returns as per statutory US State tax
deadlines.
 Computation of Quarterly provisions based on the quarterly income package.
 Managing the complete Payment process in various SAPs for the payments request raised by
the team members for the US states tax payments.
 Awarded Special Recognition Award for picking up the payment process in a quick span of time
and successfully handled volumes expected for compliance
Demand Planner–India Mumbai, Nov’09 – Dec’13
 Build demand forecast for lubricants business in India using advanced forecasting tools and
inputs from All India sales teams, OEMs & BDMs on markets and specific customer
requirements. Provide precise forecasts for manufacturing plant in Maharashtra & across 12
Depots, 4 regional depot centers at stock keeping units & employee level across all regions in
India.
 Improved forecast accuracy from 55% to 65%
 Ensure sudden demand supply gaps are met in the shortest possible time by generating options
to balance demand and supply.
 Improved integration between demand and supply teams by coordinating for resolution of
issues between the teams.
 Ensure cross function integration by regularly updating forecasted volumes to finance,
marketing, sales leaders, and supply chain for their respective planning, budgeting and
forecasting activities.
Business Finance Executive Mumbai, Mar’07 - Oct’09
 Played a key role in streamlining information flow between sales, marketing and finance to
ensure proper accounting and MIS creation within specified deadlines.
 Standardized accounting /financial data during merger. Addressed & resolved complexities
involving software hitches and master data disparity.
 Advise deviations from budgets in marketing schemes and facilitating marketing to identify
non-operating schemes by analyzing scheme profitability and volume achievements.
 Facilitated supply chain to optimize distribution expenditure without affecting business
continuity by identifying loss making distribution routes.
 Derived target achievements vis a vis budgeted target of sales team and provide variable pay
calculation to the payroll.

2.  Prepare management control dashboards and presentations for Management Team to facilitate
Leadership meetings. Provide strategic flags on region-wise performance and KPI achievements.
 Successfully managed to arrive at Business performance up to C3 Margin by arriving at
distributor wise margin achievement.
 Analysis of various distributor schemes implemented and advises any deviations from budget.
 Analysis of sales promotion & advertisement costs implemented under various schemes, and
put forward deviations to business, and challenge on costs drive.
Pennzoil-Quaker State India Ltd, Mumbai: Jun’97 - Feb’07, Accounts Executive - Western Region
(Now merged with Shell)
 Managed entire regional sales accounting, MIS & taxation which includes credit management,
sales invoicing, and reconciliation of bank accounts & inter region accounts, imperest control,
Customer sales data and its analysis. Expenses statement & its analysis, reporting on Margins,
discounts etc.
 Interface with corporate office for cash flows.
 Ensuring sales invoicing from all regional depots, plants & offices.
 Reconciliation of all bank transactions, stock transfers and inter-Region accounts & general
ledger, passing the journal entries for provision, pre-paid expenses & depreciation.
 Ensure timely disbursement of payment against travel expenses and effective management of
imperest control system
 Reconcile debtor’s accounts by coordinating with area offices, monitoring and controlling
debtors through MIS reports and analysis Preparation of debit and credit notes to customers
for the various schemes offered under sales & promotion & deviations of credit limit.
 Preparation of monthly sales–purchase statement to facilitate filling of Sales tax returns,
Preparation of assessment case for verification & assessment by Sales tax authorities.
Preparation of all statutory reports for tax & statutory audit.
 Worked as-Officiating Regional Accounts Manager for 10 months & achieved Extra Miller
Award for the same.
 Led successful implementation of the pilot for introduction of Platinum Accounting Software
in Western Region and facilitated the implementation activity across regions in the country.
 Cracked old pending corporate office bank account reconciliation, though not being part of
my responsibility, and done with in very short time. Country Controller has acknowledged the
efforts & in speed at which executed.
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