1. CURRICULUM VITAE
NAVIN SALIAN
3/28 Inkerman Street. Granville - 2142
Mobile: 0450085292
E-mail: sally00008@hotmail.com
FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY
Industry Knowledge
Petroleum Oil and Natural gas, Fruit and Vegetable Industry, Milk and Dairy Products, Bakery, Wood
Products and housing Construction Company. Transformers Industry.
Business Analysis & Development
• Maintain ledger account reconciliation and mastering the art of clearing entries by processing journal
entries.
• Processing rebate payments, understanding of contracts/agreements and accruals.
• Pricing analysis.
• Preparation of reports and providing commentary to the management on reports.
• Perform relevant General Accounting tasks as a committed team member to meet the needs of core
business partners and to contribute to ABB’s vision of a world class General Accounting department
for the Accounting Centre
• Perform necessary activities for the month end close of the Accounting Centre, including preparation
of various journal entries, preparation of monthly balance sheet account reconciliation and calculation
and recording of monthly entries as entries, preparation of monthly balance sheet account
reconciliation and calculation and recording of monthly entries as
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION:
2. • Bachelor of Commerce from Bombay University in Economics, Business Organization, Financial
Accountancy, Audit & Taxation.
• Intermediate cost accounting.
TECHNICAL SUMMARY:
Applications Version
• SAP user for MM ECC 6.00
(Core, EDM, Device Management, XI)
• MS Word, Excel and Internet, Outlook Office 2010
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Dates: From: October 2012 Onwards
Organization: ABB Australia
Position: Accounting Centre Senior Analyst –Shared Services
Reported to: Finance Manager/Vice-President Finance
Major Purpose:
As an integral part of Shared Services, the duties include Daily bank reconciliation, keeping track of direct
debits/ setting of automatic payments, Cash flow management. Overseeing AP/AR issues. Master data
updating and resolving issues related to Basware.
Responsibilities:
• Daily Bank reconciliation
• Cash flow management
• Perform analysis of accounts and generate entries as necessary
• Comply with and help to achieve internal control over financial reporting compliance and reporting for
General Accounting
• Ensure transparency in financial reporting and work within the internal control environment
• Actively seek opportunities to improve processes
Achievements:
3. • Participated in special projects as necessary to support the General Accounting department
• Assist the auditors during audit process and manage the instigation of report recommendations
• Participated in GR/IR Clearing account issue as a special project and successfully completed the
GRIR issue before the Annual closing.
Dates: From: September 2012 – Oct 2012 (Six week)
Organization: Toys R Us
Position: Financial Analyst
Reported to: Finance manager
Major Purpose:
The main purpose of this role is to download/run daily/weekly reports and analyze the same. Prepare a
commentary and send the reports with the commentary to the respective business stakeholders on a
timely and efficient manner.
Daily and Weekly reports:
• Daily promotional reports.
• Baby registry reports(weekly)
• Weekly sales report by stores
• Book scan report (Weekly)
• BRU reports (Weekly)
• Core toys report(Weekly)
• Clearance reports(Weekly)
Responsibilities:
• To ensure that the daily and weekly reports are sent out to stakeholders in a prompt and timely
manner with short analysis and commentary.
• Any queries pertaining to the reports are suitably clarified and explained and the suggestions if
required.
Dates: From: Aug 2011 – Sept 2012
Organization: James Hardie Australia
Position: Rebates and Pricing Analyst
Reported to: Finance Director
Major Purpose:
Managing rebates by checking the contracts proposed by the Sales team checking/approving and
uploading the same into SAP. Making automatic payment through SAP system and keeping track of
4. accruals against payments. Preparing month end meeting report with comments and presenting the same
to director finance and other finance people across Australia and New Zealand on a monthly basis
Responsibilities:
• To ensure that the monthly reconciliation of rebates account against liabilities that are raised in the
system for rebates are carried out and any discrepancies are rectified.
• To ensure that accruals are made accurately as per the trading agreement with a view to control
pricing of products in SAP.
• All rebates payments are automated and approvals are sought before making payments.
• Maintaining contracts and agreements in SAP and James Hardie system before uploading the same
into SAP
• Providing sales figures to customer as per their requirement by way of extracting data from SAP/BO
and other tools in SAP
• Analyzing write back amounts and getting the approval before the agreements are proceeded for final
settlement.
• Loading price changes and pricing for customers from regular price list / Special Manufactured
Orders.
Achievements:
1. In August James Hardie went through a price change due to implementation of Carbon Tax. I have
successfully completed the exercise of uploading the price revision in SAP system. This was a major
achievement which was successfully implemented.
2. Another important achievement is implementation of automatic alert system for the expired
agreements/contracts in the in-house system of James Hardie.
3. I have worked closely with AR department of finance to see to it that all rebates to our most valued
customers are processed on a timely manner and issues pertaining to Masters and John Danks of
Woolworth’s group has been processed in a timely manner, the backlog has been cleared. The
accounts are now within the 30 days bracket.
Dates: From: May 2008 – Jul 2011
Organization: Carter Holt Harvey, Wood Products Australia
Position: Rebates Manager
Reported to: Financial Controller
Major Purpose:
Calculation of rebates, managing the accruals and maintaining the contracts and trading agreements of
customers, extracting data from Business Objects like sales data and rebates agreement contracts,
5. extracting data from SAP using KE 30 report, reconciling the liability to actual rebate payment and
processing the approved rebates in SAP/MFGPRO system are the key purpose of this role.
Responsibilities:
• To ensure that the monthly reconciliation of rebates account against liabilities accrued in the system
for rebates are carried out and any discrepancies are rectified.
• To check the reconciliation against payment and accruals and to find out if any variances which are
alarming and fix those issues. Report to the Commercial Manager for writing off the excess accruals
back to P & L on a monthly basis.
• To ensure that accruals are made accurately as per the trading agreement with a view to control
pricing variation of products in SAP.
• All rebates calculated and approvals are sought from the department heads and the Commercial
Manager before processing for payment
• Maintaining trading agreement accruals in SAP and acquiring data from Business Objects using
specific cubes.
• Providing sales figures to customer as per their requirement by way of extracting data from SAP/BO
using cubes/reports.
• Extracting data from MFG PRO system for month end reconciliation of rebates.
• Attending the finance meeting and representing any issues pertaining to the rebates.
Achievements:
• I have successfully designed a system which enables to complete the rebate accruals and payment
process within the stipulated time frame as committed in the trading agreement.
• Maintained trading agreements and customer master files, periodically updated and neatly
maintained in SAP.
Dates: Started: 05/11/2007 - 30/04/2008
Organization: Turners and Growers Limited
Position: Assistant Accountant - Banking
Reported to: Assistant Financial Controller
Major Purpose:
The primary purpose is to support the Financial Services Team by daily reconciling the main bank accounts
on a daily basis and processing entries in inter-company accounts, processing journals, uploading bank file
downloaded by the Accounts receivable officer, month-end balance sheet reconciliation. Processing
Automatic Payment set up and doing morning fresh interface to SAP and Export debtors and creditors
accounts in SAP for all exports. Processing unpaid/returned salary payment by the bank.
6. Responsibilities:
• To ensure that the bank reconciliation and related process are accurate.
• To ensure that all the deliverables are produced within deadlines in an efficient manner.
• The specific responsibilities include daily bank reconciliation, general ledger accounts reconciliation,
processing of journal entries in SAP
• To ensure that month end reconciliation and foreign exchange processing
• Reconciling inter company balances in SAP
• Ensuring that the accurate figures are furnished to Treasury on a daily basis with minimum variance.
Achievements:
• Successfully completed daily banking reconciliation and month end balance sheet reconciliation
within the deadlines.
• Fully supported the financial Services department during the process of year-end closing in Dec/Jan
2008.
• Re–constructed a structured database for estimating the daily unpresented figures to Treasury.
Dates: Started: 4/9/2005 – 2/11/2007
Organisation: Fonterra Ltd. Auckland, New Zealand
Position: Logistics Accounts Investigator
Reported to: Procurement Manager-Supply Chain
Major Purpose:
The primary purpose is to support the Lead Logistics Account Investigator and Supply Chain Procurement
Manager with implementing and stabilizing the recently developed Procure to pay global processes
throughout the business of Fonterra.
Responsibilities:
• Reconciling Vendor Accounts on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
• Preparing Purchase orders and releasing purchase orders for payment when blocked in the
system after checking the reason for blocks.
• Liaising with the process module specialists for AP issues in the SAP system to ensure that
the issue is permanently rectified.
• Using the logistics master data and also providing information and input to the Master data
analyst for proper upkeep of Logistics Master Data.
• Reconciling GRIR issues.
7. Achievements:
1. Investigated and recovered $58000 excess paid to few vendors.
2. Maintained outstanding relationship with the key vendors, working closely with them in clearing
outstanding invoices in an appropriate and timely manner.
3. Became an expert in all types of logistics Procure to pay processes by continuing to learn the SAP
System and Fonterra business.
Dates: Started: 18/11/2002 –02/09/2005
Organisation: Turners and Growers Ltd, Auckland New Zealand
Position: Reconciliation Officer
Reported to: Supervisor-Docket Office
Responsibilities:
• Interacting with growers/representatives on a day to day basis for confirmation of
Sales / Supply and accepting their sales in the system for payment.
• Reconciling the accounts of Major customer namely Foodstuffs on a daily basis
• Coordinating with Sales Staff of Turners and Growers on a daily basis and
Providing them all the sales support for proper maintenance of growers account.
Achievements:
1. Reconciliation carried out with high level of accuracy and unaccounted entries are identified and
corrective action taken.
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Interests:
• Music
• Sports (Soccer, Cricket and Table Tennis)