Karthika Ravindran is a finance and accounting professional with over 2.5 years of experience in cost control and accounts payable. She has expertise in streamlining invoice approval processes for over 7 countries in the shipping industry and accounts payable experience in the hospitality industry. She is pursuing her CA final from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Her core competencies include cost control, internal reporting, audits, process improvement, and people management. She has successfully migrated business processes between locations and stabilized teams. Her professional experience includes roles as a Process Supervisor at CMA CGM Shared Service Centre and as an Accounts Payable Accountant at Park Hyatt Chennai.
Senior Manager in Finance and Accounts with 16+ years of exposure in all areas such as P2P, R2R, O2C, Financial statements, Transition, Transformation projects, Project management, Stakeholders relationship
Senior Manager in Finance and Accounts with 16+ years of exposure in all areas such as P2P, R2R, O2C, Financial statements, Transition, Transformation projects, Project management, Stakeholders relationship
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I am a goal-driven Qualified Chartered Accountant with 7+ years of Professional Expertise in Accounting & Finance, including 4+ years in UAE in F&B (Hospitality) Industry. Moreover, having a strong command over VAT ( Value-Added Tax), Cashflow Management, Planning Budgeting & Forecasting, P&L Management, Financial Reporting & Financial Analysis.
Highly skilled individual, experienced in Managerial Finance, Internal Control, Auditing, Variance Analysis, Accounts Reconciliations & General Ledger Control.
I am having extensive knowledge of Accounts Payable - VAT Input, Accounts Receivable- VAT Output and Accounts finalisation. Adept at Bookkeeping, Consolidation, Financial Statements, Petty-Cash Operation, Internal & External Audit, and Management Information System (MIS).
A Proficient Finance expert who aligns financial initiatives to achieve strategic objectives.
Core Area of Expertise:
Cash Flow & Reporting | Monthly & Year End Closing | Forecasting & Budgeting | Financial Planning & Financial Analysis | Inventory Costing | Cost & Management Accounting | Product Profitability | Variance Analysis & Internal Control | Risk Management
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RESUME - KARTHIKA
1. Karthika Ravindran
Phone : +919884232652
Email: karthika.ravikrishna@gmail.com
Finance and Accounting ProfessionalFinance and Accounting Professional
PROFILEPROFILE
• Professional with 2.5 years of finance and accounting experience. Proven expertise in streamlining the
Invoice Approval Process (Cost Control) for more than 7 countries. Experience in end to end process for
Cost Control in shipping industry and in Accounts Payable in Hospitality industry
• Pursuing CA final from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
CORE COMPETENCIES:CORE COMPETENCIES:
Cost Control (Invoice Approval process) • Key interest and strength is understanding of Finance and
Accounting Process in Shipping and Hospitality• Internal Reporting to Process Owners and stakeholders•
•Audits/compliances/Risk and Controls• Transition management onshore/remote• Process Improvement •
Standard operating Procedure• Process Flow & Process Map Documentation • Process Management & Delivery
• Training and Management • Service Level Agreement Management • Emails • Template Designs for
reporting• People Committee
Achievements:Achievements:
• Successful migration of Lost Container Activity (logistics)(onsite) from HO in Marseille ,France to
Shared Service Centre , Chennai, India and stabilizing the same with 2 FTE’s in two months.
• Successful migration of Pool Invoicing Activity from HO in Marseille to Chennai (remote) and
stabilizing the same with 2 FTE’s in a month. The smooth transition was much appreciated being the
first in department.
• Management of the most sensitive agency, Vietnam and Cambodia for over a year wherein the
escalations were bought down to almost zero.
• Completed Green Belt training and also acted as Process Expert in Green Belt Project for reducing
processing time .
• Prepared FMEA (Failure mode effect analysis) for the team which controls the risk in the process.
• Prepared Root cause Analysis for the process to control the errors.
• Part of documentation team for preparing SOP, User guides and Operational manual which are
country specific.
• End to end management of AP domain including preopening and go live period for Park Hyatt Chennai
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & DEVELOPMENTPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & DEVELOPMENT
CMA CGM SHARED SERVICE CENTRE, CHENNAI Nov 2013 – Till Date
ProcessProcess Supervisor – Cost Control (Invoice Approval process), Finance & AccountingSupervisor – Cost Control (Invoice Approval process), Finance & Accounting
Entrusted with the Following key accountabilities:
• To manage the compliance functions and assist the Senior Manager with administrative tasks.
• Coaching and preparing of new and existing workers, offering of information and tips to quick
associates.
• Responsible for extracting, allocating the work and monitoring a smooth flow of the 15 FTE process in
Chennai location along with generating report and escalating cases to higher authorities.
2. • Actively involved in team management and successfully handling team briefing thereby ensuring
proper flow of information among the team members.
• Responsible for monitoring team performance through timely feedbacks, thereby ensuring overall
team productivity and quality.
• Responsible to all enquiries, whether got by phone, in composing, by email or made in individual
productively, professionally and inside any detailed timescales.
• Reviewing and monitoring the internal procedures and practices to provide compliance with group
and regulatory requirements.
• Manage the escalation of complaints raised by internal and external customers and provide accurate
and explicit analysis of the same.
• Responsible for Weekly, Monthly reporting for stakeholders.
• CAPA Analysis (Corrective and Preventive Analysis) in case of any quality errors reported.
PARK HYATT CHENNAI Aug 2012 to Feb 2013
Accounts Payable - Accountant
Entrusted with the Following key accountabilities
• Booking all trade and corporate invoices
• Transferring entries to GL post reconciliation.
• Preparing ageing reports of supplier and facilitating timely payments.
• Preparing weekly and monthly reports.
• Responsible in handling different type of inquiries such as Missing payments, Duplicate payments, late
payments etc
MP GOPALAKRISHNAN AND COMPANY Sep 2008-Sep 2011
Audit AssistantAudit Assistant
• Entrusted with the Following key accountabilities
• Preparation, finalization and filing of Income tax returns for Non Corporate and corporate assesses.
• Conducting stock audit for clients.
• Vouching of bills and other documents
• Assisting the clients in Accounting
• Assisting the team manager in internal audits.
• Preparation of wealth tax computations
• Consultancy services in Tax compliance matters
• Branch Audit for Indian Overseas Bank.
• Internal audit for Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd and KR group from the hotel industry.
• Also involved in reviewing the accounting system and designing an internal control system for finance
and accounts department
• Checking the compliance of accounting standards and provisions of the Companies Act.
3. EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALSEDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
PE II – Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
2008, Chennai
MBA (Finance)
2010-2012 University of Madras.
B.Com
2004-2007, University of Calicut
COMPUTER PROFICIENCY
MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Oracle
Date of Birth: 29th
September, 1986
Language Proficiency: English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil
Marital Status: Married.
References: Available on Request