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APURV THAKKAR

Senior Accountant
Bavla, Ahmedabad,Gujarat

Summary

  • Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Goal-focused Accountant with record of accurate reporting and budget management. Offering 7 years of experience handling finances for Kampala, Uganda locations. Processed payroll, budgets, reports, audits, journals, expenditures and payments. Diligently maintains latest training on tax regulations and legal issues impacting financial operations. Consistently ensuring financial performance. Generating revenues and enhancing performance of the teams.
  • Proven expertise in overcoming complex business challenges, making decisions within high-pressure environments using experience-backed judgment, innovation, strong work ethic and irreproachable integrity. Providing effective reports to financial controller to enable strategic foresight into the business and also provide knowledgeable and accurate information to colleagues and senior management. Good time & Team management skills with proven ability to work accurately and quickly prioritize, coordinate and consolidate tasks, whilst simultaneously managing the diverse range of function from multiple sources. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate
3
3
Languages

Work History

Account Executive

CANPAC TRENDS PVT LTD
Bavla, Ahmedabad
05.2014 - 02.2016
  • Business: - Manufacturing and exporting Corrugated Boxes
  • Team Size: 07 Members from May 14 to till Feb 16
  • Responsible For
  • Compiling daily turnover and reporting to director.
  • Vouching and correctly recording all expenses and purchases.
  • Reporting of any differences of receipts/issue of material to the auditor.
  • Handling petty cash.
  • Distributing receivable reports on daily basis to all marketing staff and payment follow up for the same.
  • Preparation of delivery note and invoices for entire sale of the company.
  • Preparation of export documentation set.
  • Maintaining and controlling cheque issue register.
  • Supporting external auditors in statutory audit.
  • Preparing VAT Reports.
  • Handling Accounts Payable and Receivables.
  • Reconciliation for AR & AP on monthly basis.
  • Month-End Closing Reports.
  • Carryout any other duties that may be assigned by management from time to time.

Junior Accountant

Victoria University
Kampala
03.2016 - 06.2016
  • Team Size: 03 Members from March 16 to till Jun 16
  • Responsible for
  • Establishing financial objectives in line with the vision and organization objectives.
  • Responsible for complete financial management and day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all financial related activities- accounting, finance, forecasting, strategic planning, Rate Cards, legal.
  • Adherence to regulatory and statutory compliance.
  • Collection review & follow-up on daily basis.
  • Improving efficiencies and reducing costs across the business.
  • Responsible for Company taxation & coordination with Internal & External Auditors.
  • Implementation of effective business & financial performance monitoring mechanisms through MIS.
  • Oversee approval and processing of revenue, expenditure, departmental budgets, salary updates, ledger and account maintenance.
  • Work with company advisers and suppliers to manage relationships with the Group’s auditors, tax advisers, bankers and other parties as directed.
  • Finalization of accounts and compliance.
  • Taxation and filling all monthly tax returns.
  • Property Managers, Building managers, Debtors and Creditors for fund arrangement and payment and Bailiff for arrangement of shop locking and auction process.
  • Ensures timely payments of vendor invoices and expense vouchers and timely updates to the trading and financial systems.
  • Keeps track of all payments and expense invoices and statements.
  • Closely monitor receivables against due dates and report on potential overdue on a timely basis.
  • Maintain accounts receivable files and records in the trading and financial systems.
  • Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
  • Prepares analyses of accounts and producing monthly reports
  • Responds to stakeholders’ inquiries swiftly.
  • Proactively engage with the stakeholders to implement improvements to the payment and receivables processes.
  • Supporting in office administration activities.
  • Visiting various properties and ensure that all collectibles are correctly reported in line with tenants occupying property.
  • Supporting building managers in identifying and following with overdue collections.
  • Ensuring and updating the outstanding and receivable report in line with signed tenancy agreement.
  • Preparing and sending timely demand notes and invoices to various tenants and following payment from them.
  • Receiving the goods as per the LPO, controlling the stock issue as per need base planning.
  • Maintaining ledger accounts for over 1000 tenants on regular basis.
  • Reconciliation of landlord’s ledgers.
  • Carryout any other duties that may be assigned by management from time to time.

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

Crane Management Services Ltd, Ruparelia Group
Kampala
07.2016 - 04.2023
  • Team Size: 11 Members from 01 March 2016
  • Responsible For
  • Establishing financial objectives in line with the vision and organization objectives.
  • Responsible for complete financial management and day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all financial related activities- accounting, finance, forecasting, strategic planning, Rate Cards, legal.
  • Adherence to regulatory and statutory compliance.
  • Collection review & follow-up on daily basis.
  • Improving efficiencies and reducing costs across the business.
  • Responsible for Company taxation & coordination with Internal & External Auditors.
  • Implementation of effective business & financial performance monitoring mechanisms through MIS.
  • Oversee approval and processing of revenue, expenditure, departmental budgets, salary updates, ledger and account maintenance.
  • Work with company advisers and suppliers to manage relationships with the Group’s auditors, tax advisers, bankers and other parties as directed.
  • Finalization of accounts and compliance.
  • Taxation and filling all monthly tax returns.
  • Property Managers, Building managers, Debtors and Creditors for fund arrangement and payment and Bailiff for arrangement of shop locking and auction process.
  • Ensures timely payments of vendor invoices and expense vouchers and timely updates to the trading and financial systems.
  • Keeps track of all payments and expense invoices and statements.
  • Closely monitor receivables against due dates and report on potential overdue on a timely basis.
  • Maintain accounts receivable files and records in the trading and financial systems.
  • Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
  • Prepares analyses of accounts and producing monthly reports
  • Responds to stakeholders’ inquiries swiftly.
  • Proactively engage with the stakeholders to implement improvements to the payment and receivables processes.
  • Supporting in office administration activities.
  • Visiting various properties and ensure that all collectibles are correctly reported in line with tenants occupying property.
  • Supporting building managers in identifying and following with overdue collections.
  • Ensuring and updating the outstanding and receivable report in line with signed tenancy agreement.
  • Preparing and sending timely demand notes and invoices to various tenants and following payment from them.
  • Receiving the goods as per the LPO, controlling the stock issue as per need base planning.
  • Maintaining ledger accounts for over 1000 tenants on regular basis.
  • Reconciliation of landlord’s ledgers.
  • Carryout any other duties that may be assigned by management from time to time.

Education

SSC -

A.K.Vidhya Mandir
Bavla, Ahmedabad
02.2008 - 03.2009

HSC -

A.K.Vidhya Mandir
Bavla, Ahmedabad
04.2009 - 03.2011

Bachelor of Commerce -

Gujarat University
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
01.2011 - 04.2014

Skills

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Certification

Accounting Fundamentals from Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)

Timeline

Accounting Fundamentals from Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)

05-2023

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

Crane Management Services Ltd, Ruparelia Group
07.2016 - 04.2023

Junior Accountant

Victoria University
03.2016 - 06.2016

Account Executive

CANPAC TRENDS PVT LTD
05.2014 - 02.2016

Bachelor of Commerce -

Gujarat University
01.2011 - 04.2014

HSC -

A.K.Vidhya Mandir
04.2009 - 03.2011

SSC -

A.K.Vidhya Mandir
02.2008 - 03.2009
APURV THAKKARSenior Accountant