Guhan MuthuKumar
Chennai
Summary
Highly accomplished and results-driven Regional Finance Manager with 17 years of extensive experience in finance, accounting, and strategic planning. Proven track record of optimizing financial performance, enhancing operational efficiency, and driving profitable growth within multinational organizations.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager- Regional Finance & Accounts - South
Writer Business Services Private Limited.
12.2018 - Current
- Playing a key & integral part of the Region's Management team to manages the periodic forecasting for Annual Operation Plan (AOP) schedules including direct accountability for all costs & providing accurate Year End Outlook compared to the AOP, variance analysis, and financial reporting with SBU level costing.
- Analyzed financial statements against forecasts to prepare high-level variance analysis.
- Forecasted trends and recommended improvements based on financial risk analyses.
- Monitored budget and revenue trends, compiling reports for company leadership to inform decision-making.
- Supported operations management, sales and marketing efforts to increase revenue and overall financial health.
- Planning and executing monthly / quarterly / annual closure schedules; providing monthly financial statements; administering monthly closing process.
- Manage revenue accounting close-related functions and perform key month-end deferral assessments
- Achieved 100% accurate Invoices and timely submission to 400+ clients & boost up collection follow up. Strict adherence to all statutory compliances like GST & TDS Reconciliations & filing
- Managed and improved the entire collection and receivables process on outstanding with more emphasis to curtail the Outstanding > 90 days less than 10% and > 180 days not more than 5% of total Outstanding. Overall DSO less than 60 days.
- Ensured 100% Collection accounting by controlling unapplied cash within prescribed range
- Vendor negotiations, Vendor management & supervising the Accounts payable process with 100% documentation and policy
- Executed vendor setup and payment, administration of employee reimbursement & advances and account reconciliations.
- Implemented cross functional team work between finance, operations, and marketing that included group decisions on promotions and additional tasks to improve overall performance, dispute resolution and profitability
- Managed a 10+ person FP&A team responsible for monthly close process, monthly management reporting and variance analysis; policy and process.
- Trained & Supervised staff of two Assistant Finance Managers, which consisted of daily training, monthly evaluations, goal setting, and mentoring.
- Trained new and existing staff members in various financial procedures to prepare for job requirements.
Assoc. Functional Manager - Collections
Randstad India Private Limted
08.2013 - 11.2018
- Act as Business partner with the business heads & Regional heads to resolve their queries relating to finance & collections of the dues.
- Responsible to approve Salary payouts for 25000+ employees working for Randstad at client's place
- Review accounts receivable reports to ascertain status of collections and balances outstanding of 400+ clients& maintaining the desired DSO.
- Analyze Bad Debt /review A/R Aging Overdue & kept under control
- Evaluate effectiveness of current collection policies and procedures & Responsible for up-dated Credit Procedures manual as changes occur
- Maintain close contact with customers’ key personnel & do RCA to resolve collection matters significantly avoiding bad debts.
- Work directly with Accounts Receivable manager on process of cash application to insure both departments are complimenting each other.
- Coordinated and supervised Invoicing for 1500+ clients with over 6000+ invoices raised in every month
- Responsible for managing and training team of 6 employees
- Active Core Member team in implementation of SAP - SD module in invoicing process.
- Developed and implemented standard operating procedures to monitor work flow to ensure department ran at maximum efficiency
- Identified any negative trends that required resolutions and reported complex issues to higher levels of management
Senior Executive - Finance
Expeditors International (I) Pvt. Ltd.
02.2006 - 07.2013
- Experience in working on Financial Analytics. In-depth experience in Credit Control & Credit limit set-ups for customers using Z-scores & AR Calls
- Excellent exposure to working of GLs & analyzing the GL compare reports through MIS Reporting
- Experience in analyzing the Variance analysis & Financial modeling
- Understanding the working of FDs, Term Deposits maintained by the Company & coordinate with the banker on any queries in the same.
- Excellent exposure and expertise in Vendor Management as one point contact to vendors for Chennai Branch along with its Satellite offices.
- Experience in maintaining around five Imprest Accounts at same time, reconciling it , closing it every month ends
Education
MBA - Finance
Pondicherry University
Chennai05.2022
Masters in Commerce - Commerce
University of Madras
Chennai08.2011
CWA Inter - Accounting And Finance
ICWA ,SIRC
Chennai02.2006
Bachelor of Arts - Commerce
D G Vaishnav College of Arts & Science
Chennai07.2005
Skills
- O2C & P2P process & strategies
- Risk Mitigation
- Managerial & business finance
- Operations and finance expert
- Communication & negotiation skill
- Managerial & Leadership techniques
- Conflict/Dispute resolution techniques
- Relationship & Team Building
- Key Client relations
- Financial analysis & Reporting
- Strategic and financial planning
- Cost control and reduction
- Budgeting & forecasting
- KPI management
- Finance and accounting
- Coaching and training
Certification
- ILead - Leadership Intermediate Course , Randstad India Pvt. Ltd. - 2015
- Advanced Business Development Communication and Negotiation - Linked In
- Becoming Indistractable - Linked In
- Building Your Social Perceptiveness - Linked In
- Business Analytics Foundations Descriptive Exploratory and Explanatory Analytics - Linked In
- Controlling Cybersecurity Risk with Defender Vulnerability Management - Linked In
- Making Decisions - Linked In
- How to Make Creative Thinking a Habit - Linked In
- How to Make Strategic Thinking a Habit - Linked In
- Introduction to AI Governance - Linked In
- Mindful Communication for Less Conflict and Stronger Relationships - Linked In
- Negotiation Foundations - Linked In
- Responsible AI for Managers - Linked In
- Skills to Build Stronger Work Relationships - Linked In
- Tackling Intense Customer Service Moments - Linked In
- What Is Generative AI - Linked In
Accomplishments
- Acting as integral part of a dynamic leadership team & assisting the top management on business decision, forecasting & strategies
- Led the team of consistently top performing members in the collection & billing team
- Achieved consistently DSO less than 60 days by implementing robust collection strategies & maintaining the customer relations
- Earned accolades for the highest collection from PSU clients & winning cash rewards to the team
- Collaborated with team of 6 as the core member team to implementation & integration of SAP into financial process in Randstad .
Timeline
Manager- Regional Finance & Accounts - South
Writer Business Services Private Limited.
12.2018 - Current
Assoc. Functional Manager - Collections
Randstad India Private Limted
08.2013 - 11.2018
Senior Executive - Finance
Expeditors International (I) Pvt. Ltd.
02.2006 - 07.2013
MBA - Finance
Pondicherry University
Masters in Commerce - Commerce
University of Madras
CWA Inter - Accounting And Finance
ICWA ,SIRC
Bachelor of Arts - Commerce
D G Vaishnav College of Arts & Science
- ILead - Leadership Intermediate Course , Randstad India Pvt. Ltd. - 2015
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