N Ranganathan has over 35 years of experience in accounting, finance, taxation, and business process restructuring. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Currently he works as the Finance Controller for United Breweries Limited in Chennai, where he manages accounting, finance, and taxation functions. Previously he has held senior finance roles with various companies, implementing ERP systems and helping negotiate mergers and acquisitions.

1. VII, S&P Residency 7th Cross Street, Rajankuppam,Ayanambakkam,
Chennai,600095.
9841279159,9444961936
nranganathan40@gmail.com
N RANGANATHAN B.SC., FCA, FCMA, FCS.
OBJECTIVE To Contribute immensely to Organisation’s growth.
SKILLS & ABILITIES Accounting, Finance and Statutory compliances.
Directand Indirect Taxation
Business ProcessRestructuring
Designing and implementation of ERP
Merger
Trouble shooting
Mentoring
Negotiating
TPM(TotalProductivity Management), Kaizen
EXPERIENCE FINANCE CONTROLLER,UNITED BREWERIES LIMITED,CHENNAI
20/5/2002onwards
Complete chargeof Accounting,Finance,Taxationfunctions:
 Taken overfromEmpee Group, 2 breweries, one each in TN and Kerala.
 SavedRs.3.5crores(3% ofthe purchaseconsideration)by
renegotiatingtheincorrectterms agreedwithEmpeeGroup.
 Developedandimplemented newsystemsandprocedures and
ensured complete controlover the affairs.
 Reducedstaffstrength by threein the FinanceDepartment.
 CostControl,Budgeting,Varianceanalysis,Brandperformance
analysis.
 Workingcapital management.
 Broughtincultural changesamongemployees.
 NegotiatedwithLabourunionandbroughtina clause in the
tripartiteLT Wage settlement providing forreductioninfixed
incentiveforlessthat 80% lineefficiency.
 OfficiatedasUnit Head ofthe DharuheraplantinHaryanafora
briefstint of20 days-
Achieved highesteverproduction,
Settled 41 dismissaland disciplinary labour cases and
Unearthed fraud atmanageriallevel.
 Handledall IncomeTaxandSalestax cases (Assessmentsand
appeals)effectively.
 Mentoring inthe Total ProductiveManagementLeadershipteam.
FINANCE CONTROLLER,INERTIA INDUSTRIES LIMITED,MUMBAI

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1/7/2001 to19/5/2002
Complete chargeof Accounting,Finance,Taxationand Secretarialfunctions.
 Transferred tothe newly taken overcompany,Inertia Industries Limited
to take care of Secretarial and Financial aspects.
 ManywindinguppetitionsbyCreditors weresolved/settledtothe
advantage of the Company.
 Salestax defermentdefaultand Customsdutyexportobligation
violationissuesweresortedout.
 Ex-promoter,aidedbyhisloyal employees,inkey positions in
Secretarial and Finance areas in the company, tookawaystatutory
recordsandfiledfalsecaseof financial improprietyagainstthenew
managementand tried to thwartthe AGM and implicate the new
Directors. EnsuredthatAGM wasconductedasscheduledand their
casewas quashed.
 Civil Suits,Recoverysuits,SuitsunderNegotiableInstrumentsAct
etc., weresettledout ofcourt.
 RestructuredtheFinanceand Secretarial functions andeased out
VP-Finance,Senior Manager-Finance, Company Secretary and twostaff.
 Secretarial andFinancial duediligence washandled successfully
whichresulted in Scottish& Newcastle Plc. Takingstakeinthe
company.
SENIORMANAGER,UNITED BREWERIESLIMITED,PALAKKAD.
1/7/1995 to30/6/2001
Complete chargeof Accounting,Financeand Taxationfunctions.
 Designed,developed,testedandimplementedIn-HouseERPsystem
with Auto entry postings in the financial records.
 AccurateandtimelyMIS reporting.
 Budgetarycontrol,Varianceanalysisandcostreduction.
 SuccessfullynegotiatedLongtermwagesettlementwithTrade
Unions’ (INTUCand CITU) political leaders (Ex-Ministers)inKerala
whichwas long pending for19 months without HR Head.
 Penaltyarising outofsalestax issueswereresolvedandhandled
the AG Auditorsontheissue.
CHIEFACCOUNTANT,PREMIERBREWERIES LIMITED,PALAKKAD.
22/2/1985to30/6/1995
Complete chargeof Accounting,Financeand Taxationfunctions.
 ObtainedTermLoansand DPG to finance the
expansion/modernization plans.
 Completedall pendingSalestaxandIncometax assessments and all
liabilities were extinguished as a result.
 Completelyre-engineeredtheEmptyBottlesSupplychainand
usage,brought in controlmechanism resulting in substantial recurring

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savings in bottles costwhich constitute 60% of productcost as a part of
Inventoryreduction,lossreductionandcostreduction andwas
UpheldbyArthurAndersonConsultingasthebest system.
 Incometax penalty andprosecutioncaseslaunchedagainst the
Company were handledeffectively tothebenefit of the Company.
 Singlehandedly ensuredthecompany’samalgamationwithUnited
BreweriesLimited asthe merger scheme ran into rough weather and
hostile environment and went into litigation in 1995.
 Adjudged asbest finalizedaccounts inthe UBGroup.
 Adjudged asbest MIS reporting in UBGroup.
 Staff reductionandbettermanpowerutilizationintheAccounts
and Financefunction.
WORKS ACCOUNTANT,SAKTHISUGARS LIMITED (FOUNDRYDIVISION),
PERUNDURAI
31/1/1983to11/2/1985
In chargeofFoundry Accounts.
 DesignedandimplementedAccountingandCostingsystems.
 Automatedpricingofvariousproductsbasedoncompositionof
metals andcomplicationofthemouldpatternsand other
intricacies.
 Dailyprofit/ lossreporting (with95% accuracyafterinspectionof
castings)despitehaving completemanual accountingsystems.
EDUCATION SHRIBALDEVDASKIKANIVIDHYAMANDHIRHIGH SCHOOL,COIMBATORE
XIstandard -Secondary School Leaving Certificate (Apr 1974) – 69.3 %
P S G ARTS COLLEGE,COIMBATORE
Pre-university course-Maths, Physics& Chemistry (1974-75) - 64.1%
GOVERNMENTARTS COLLEGE,COIMBATORE
B.Sc (Mathematics)- Madras University (Apr 1975- Mar ‘78) - 57.1 %
INSTITUTE OFCOST ACCOUNTANTS OFINDIA,KOLKATA
Graduated in Dec 1982 - 56.3%
Fellow of the Institute (FCMA) since 20/12/1999
INSTITUTE OFCHARTEREDACCOUNTANTS OFINDIA,NEW DELHI
Graduated in May 1983 - 56.3%
Fellow of the Institute (FCA) since 05/04/1991
INSTITUTE OFCOMPANY SECRETARIES OFINDIA,NEW DELHI
Graduated in Dec 1990 - 50.5%
Fellow of the Institute (FCS) since 20/03/1990

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COMMUNICATION Fearless articulator of my viewson issues affectingthe company.
Sound the top management on likely impacts of various
decisions taken /likely to be taken for their review of such
decisions.
LEADERSHIP Inspire and guide others in the right direction.
Counsel people concerned and hence couldtrouble shoot many
problems.
REFERENCES S.UPPILI
Chief Executive Officer, Dynamatics India Limited, Chennai,
Cell: 9840923509
A.NARAYANAN
Assistant Vice President, United Breweries Limited
Cell: 9498080505
N.RANGANATHAN.