Avinash Singh

• Handling GST for the entire business under Lifestyle (non-trade).
• Preparations of the Monthly Return GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, Annual Return GSTR-9, and GSTR-9C.
• Filing replies to notices and orders, preparation of data for department audit.
• Assisting in assessments related to pre-GST tax (VAT, service tax, sales tax) litigations, notices, and assessments.
• Consolidating the data sales, purchase, stock transfer, and service tax for finalizing the GSTR-3B and GSTR-1 computation, annual return GSTR-9, and GSTR-9C, and return upload process.
• Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
• To ensure vendor reconciliation and GST2A reconciliation on a monthly basis, and to prepare the vendor aging or creditor aging report.
• Helping with the accounts closing activity, finalization activity, variance analysis, and clarification with the internal audit and external auditors' team for various queries.
• Mentored junior staff members in their professional development by offering guidance/support in their assigned roles.

Achievement:

• Consistently earned excellent performance ratings from management over a four-year tenure at Landmark.
• Achieved promotion to Assistant Manager within just two years, reflecting strong leadership and delivery capabilities.
• Served as a key member of the SAP Core Team, successfully driving the upgradation of GST-related reports in SAP, ensuring compliance, and enhanced reporting accuracy.

• In ITC, I primarily handled GST and Accounts Payables for the Head Office Business under the Tobacco Division.
• Preparation of the monthly return GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B, annual return GSTR-9 and GSTR-9C, and sending the same to our Tax Admin Team for further return upload process.
• Handling accounts payable for factory operations, projects, and daily operations of the head office, with proper guidelines of SOPs.
• Process consisting of the activity of coordination with the purchasing department, verification of quotations, requisition, PO, vendor selection, checking of GR/IR, invoice verification, vendor payments, checking of accounting entries, and checking of statutory deductions.
• Assisted with the statutory payment of TDS, WCT, and service tax payments, and ensured proper CENVAT credit as per various excise and service tax acts.
• Inter-business reconciliation. Assisting in accounts closing activity, finalization activity, variance analysis, and clarification with the internal audit and external auditors' team for various queries.
• Monitoring of time-barred checks, unexpired insurance, and expenses.
• Related party transactions, uploading, and clearing portals.
• Coordinating and assisting managers for the successful completion of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end activities.
• Handling cash, employee payments, and advances.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Achievement: Over the last 7 years in ITC, I have achieved excellent ratings from the management for my work and was transferred in just 1.5 years from Cashier to the Indirect Taxation Team. Helped in the implementation of GST, transitional credits. Upgradation of reports in SAP with teammates for GST reports, following process notes, logics, and UAT.

• Monthly Closing Process, trial scrutiny, debtors and creditors analysis, and MIS (income and expenditure detail with variance analysis), special assignment(s) received from time to time by top management.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Annual planning cycle coordinator of budget preparation and analysis. Fund flow projections on a weekly basis and a monthly basis.
• Statutory Compliance: Timely deposit of statutory dues – TDS/TCS, service tax, entry tax, VAT, CST, and preparation of calculations and details for filing corresponding returns within the due date. Ensure exact TDS/TCS deductions, and issue Form 16A. Timely generation and use of materials bought from outside West Bengal.
• Audit: Facilitation of statutory audit, tax audit, without any adverse observations.
• Banking and Finance: Maintenance of cash credit accounts, authorization of RTGS, and payment schedules of vendors. Administering online banking functions. Submission of the combined monthly stock statement to banks for cash credit facility and BRS. Preparation of CMA data for banks.
• MIS: Responsible for the correct and prompt completion of monthly financial statements. Valuation of closing stock. Preparation of the Annual Budget. Trial scrutiny and variance analysis of the monthly profit and loss account.