Arunachalam Radhakrishnan
Musiri
Summary
A performance-oriented personal helping to achieve the business goal with over 15 years of combined expertise in the finance and accounting domain. Skilled in financial accounting and reporting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, debt chasing, treasury operations, external and internal client management, reconciliation, and KYC wetting. Strong knowledge in adhering to the fundamentals of standard accounting principles, policies, and standards that are laid down by the organization from time to time. Having professional decorum, I am disciplined and self-motivated, with interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills, as well as stakeholder relationship management.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Analyst
Shell Business Operations
Chennai
03.2012 - Current
- Following the Health Safety Security Environment rules towards Goal Zero.
- Primary focal for Financial Reporting (Report One submission) for 9 Brazilian Business AOOs and Control execution.
- Responsible for Journal postings & SoAR preparation in Blackline tool.
- Recording provisions and Control execution.
- Making sure all the Recovery Billing against IG parties are posted subsequently collected the cash/receipt of payment.
- Inter-Group Reconciliation
- Responsible for Balance Sheet Review with Business stakeholders and take actions
- Generating insightful MI independently. Create new MI as and when required to provide more transparency to the results.
- Explain margin drivers and provide commentary for appraisal packs. This will involve working with FiBs and feeder processes.
- Drive appraisal discussions with Business leads and effectively handle queries.
- Achievements:
- Aged Open Items clearance:
- Cleared old aged items worth 3Mln USD as part of Balance sheet cleanup
- MJE Reduction/Feeder process fix/Automation:
- 24 Lines/Year worth MJEs have been reduced by way of system fix/automation (TP has been updated in GSAP 611 table).
- Couple of lines worth MJEs have been reduced by way of engaging/Collaborating with other teams in pushing the actuals in prior period.
- Projects Involved:
- Primary focal for CFIN/S4 HANA implementation for 9 Brazilian AOO – In progress
- Previous roles accountabilities:
- Focal for Sanctions deals (GEC/HRC) testing, settlement and related queries
- Acting as a Super user for DEX (Oil Trading application) and SAP P80
- Ensured all the payments/billings raised by team as per KPI requirements; escalated to leads to move forward; handling queries/escalations on behalf of team.
- Focal to validate the Red flags in the new Bank account setup for payment to vendors.
- Signing of payments per MOA upto $5Mln.
- Recognizing team when there is a Good job and giving feedback when there is a scope for improvement
- Processing Settlements of Oil Cargos / Ancillary costs for Eastern, Middle East, Japan regions as per standard procedures with accuracy by following the robust Control Framework. Taking ownership until the fund reached to supplier’s Bank.
- Raising of Invoices to Customers, sending for payment, chasing the Customers & ensure effective debt chasing mechanism followed until to get the cash allocated into Customer’s account.
- Handled Ancillary costs processing for SITM Business for initial stage and moved to processing the Oil Cargo payments for Different entities in the Eastern Regions.
- Meeting the KPIs requirements for the Invoicing & payments of Oil / Ancillary costs stipulated in the Group Financial Accounting policies.
- Maintaining stakeholder relationship in the process.
- Identified the root cause for the complexity in the process (Pre-payments tracking & Back to Back Freight calculation).
- Email management: ensures all the emails read & responded as per standard procedures. Effective tracking of emails.
- Focal for giving aid in declaring the Singapore GST.
- Have been a focal for preparing / sending the TOP 20 Overdue Reports to SITME Business which goes up to EVP.
- One point of contact for giving Balance Confirmation to the Counterparties as and when required.
- Acting as a key person in the process and back up to other desks to cover the absence of the respective personal.
- Reviewing the Payment packets with extra vigilance before goes to approval.
- Performing Inter-Group Reconciliation.
- Sharing best practices, knowledge, exceptions to the team whenever occurs involving myself in the “VM”
- Projects involved:
- Shell Bitumen (ST16) migration
- Shell Energy China (Prod) migration
- Sanctions Project – GEC/HRC testing and settlements
- Career Path in Shell:
- Finance Analyst: Mar-2012 to Sep-2013
- Senior Finance Analyst: Oct-2013 to Sep 2016
- Specialist/Asst. Team Manager/Specialist: Oct 2016 to Sep 2022
- R&A/Brazil Finance Analyst: Oct 2022 to till now
- Awards & Recognition in Shell
- Awarded twice with spot appreciations for the error free processor (2012 - 2013)
- Awarded with CFL in recognition of outstanding performance in the areas of Behavioral Imperatives (2014-2016)
- Received Service Recognition award for the Exceptional Performance in the process (2014-2016)
- Have been awarded an SRA (4%) in recognition for consistently showcasing extended support behaviors and commercial mindset for handled multiple desks and critical deliverables during non-availability of other staff members and extended support in giving training to the new joiner. (Jul-2017)
- Have been awarded an SRA (2%) in recognition for consistently showcasing Extra Initiative, performance and Accuracy - contributed to the new migration of SEC Business into FO TS (Jan-2018)
- Have been awarded an SRA (2%) in recognition for consistently showcasing extra Initiative, performance and accuracy (IGPC support, overdue performance etc.) – (Jul-2018)
- Awarded with SRA for Operational Excellence for executing all the NCS settlement “Right first time” & successfully tested all scenario for Oil and Non-oil portfolio relating OFAC controls in DEX (Dec 2018)
- Got word of appreciations from Stakeholders & External Counterparties.
Senior Process Executive
Infosys BPO
Chennai
09.2008 - 12.2011
- Have been working as a Key personal in the Finance & Accounting process for the Client Philips Electronics Limited. Processing of supplier’s invoices, payments to supplier, Treasury Operations & Reconciliation of Ledger accounts. Also, involved in various projects.
- Roles & Responsibilities:
- Worked as a key person in the Centralized Banking team.
- Processing of supplier’s invoices in SAP, handling Customer queries by providing payment status, remittance details; Co-ordinate with stakeholders in resolving the pricing disputes.
- Meeting the KPIs requirements and update the comments for the deviation.
- Raising Master Data Maintenance Request to update the Bank details.
- Creation / Execution of payment proposal & payment run for IHC & Cheque payments; Pricing Cheques with co-ordination of Client; Checking payment rejections & monitoring;
- Communicating with Bank on receipt of Cheque issuance file.
- Generating the Bank statement/Stop and Void issuance of Cheques in Bank website.
- Automatic Batch run to post the Bank statement in SAP.
- General Ledger reconciliation on a monthly basis.
- Updating, Checking with SAP, Consolidating and Reporting of KPI; Focal for Internal Audit Control for the team.
- Involved in UAT testing for system upgrades & process migrations.
- Got word of appreciations from stakeholders & customers; Spot award received for the error free performance.
- Projects involved:
- Invoice verification Project: Helped the Client to pay the payables on time for which have sent the open items report thrice in a week to client in order to update the exact due date resulted pay on time and avoid early payments to supplier.
- ODO Project: One Document per ORU which benefit to be harmonized Work Instruction to the process. I revisited the WIs and documented with approval.
Education
M. Com., - Financial Management
Bharadhidasan University
Trichy, Tamilnadu, IndiaSkills
- MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint),
- Blackline application
- Exposure in working with SAP environment for 15 years
- Strong in using Trading applications like FED and DEX
Custom
Looking a challenging position to utilize my skills and abilities in areas of Finance and Accounts in the fields of Oil & Gas Industry and Electronics sector. Intend to build a career in an environment with committed, motivated & team oriented people which will help me to explore myself effectively & realize my potential, willing to work as a key player in a challenging & creative environment
Timeline
Finance Analyst
Shell Business Operations
03.2012 - Current
Senior Process Executive
Infosys BPO
09.2008 - 12.2011
M. Com., - Financial Management
Bharadhidasan University
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