Rabin Arokianathan

Internal Audit & Risk Management

· Lead and manage branch internal audit executives, ensuring audits are executed as per plan with quality and timeliness.

· Perform control testing, identify gaps, and recommend corrective actions to senior management.

· Conduct fraud detection, loss-prevention audits, and investigations into discrepancies and anomalies.

🔹 Financial & Compliance Audit

· Coordinate with Finance Department to support GST defaulters reconciliation.

· Ensure accuracy of invoicing, Tax reporting, and channel location wise filling.

· Monitor Region budget audits, Monthly reconciliations, Vendor payments, and fixed asset controls.

· Fixed Asset – To cross check company owned asset on Quarterly based Actual Vs physical and follow up the maintenance and Scrape process

· Liaise with external auditors for statutory and financial audit requirements.

🔹 Revenue Assurance & Reporting (Showrooms & Service centres)

· Ensure reconciliation of POS system with ERP ( Navision ) for accurate revenue recognition.

· Conduct AR variance analysis, deferred revenue reconciliations, and collection tracking.

· Develop and monitor revenue assurance policies to prevent leakage and misreporting.

🔹 Operational & Inventory Audit

· Plan and execute statewide inventory audits across retail chain stores.

· Assess visual merchandising, planogram compliance, and in-store displays for retail effectiveness.

· Supervise logistics, warehouse dispatches, and monthly inventory reporting to senior leadership.

🔹 Commercial & Contractual Audit

· To Review - Distributor allocations, stock requirements, and commercial transactions.

· To Review - Oversee drafting and review of agreements with landlords, distributors, and vendors, ensuring compliance and smooth closures.

· To Review – Ontime utility payments happening or not

· To Support - Monitoring insurance coverage, legal compliance, and risk mitigation.

🔹 Leadership & Process Improvement

· Mentor branch auditors to strengthen audit methodologies and improve efficiency.

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Sales, MIS, Logistics, Finance) to enhance operational controls.

Present audit findings, financial reports, and improvement recommendations to management.

• Achievement:
• Good performance
• Promoted from Branch Accountant to Finance officer & Finance officer to Assistant Manager - Now going to promote as Manager in July'23
• Reorganize accounting department
• Restructure accounting system
• Execute accounting activities fluently
• Build up accounting and store procedure system
• Set up proper accounting system
• Conduct tally accounting software
• Set up finance and accounting report system
• Set up internal financial control procedures

• Group of Companies
• Main business: Multi brand Mobile retail outlet
• Main duties: Report to CFO
• Supervise 15 Stores: Internal audit Showroom Operation
• Complete store operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; follow up on work results
• Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees
• Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating actions
• Identifies current and future customer requirements by establishing rapport with potential an actual customers and other persons in a position to understand service requirements
• Ensures availability of merchandise and services by approving contracts; maintaining inventories
• Formulates pricing policies by reviewing merchandising activities; determining additional needed sales promotion; authorizing clearance sales; studying trends
• Secures merchandise by implementing security systems and measures
• Protects employees and customers by providing a safe and clean environment
• Maintains the stability and reputation of the complying with legal requirements
• Determines marketing strategy changes by reviewing operating and financial statements and departmental records
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies
• Maintains operations by initiating, coordinating, enforcing program, operational, personnel policies procedures
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Performing risk analysis on revenue, and developing methods to mitigate risks
• Implementing quality controls to minimize operational expenses so that the revenues can be increased
• Communicating with clients and resolving billing queries and disputes
• Interviewing, appointing, training, and assigning tasks to the accounting staff
• Participating in quarterly and annual meetings and giving presentation
• Preparing revenue reports and presents the reports during staff meetings
• Responsible for building relationships with Junior & Middle Management, facilitating risk
• Assessments to ensure existing and future probable risks are considered and addressed
• Reviewed financial statements and provided instructions to the accounting staff for reconciliation on monthly Basis
• Prepared revenue analysis reports and identified and minimized risks
• Coordinated and ensured IT team implemented automation plans
• Coordinated with Head Office for all financial issues of the region
• Reconciliation Cash, Card, Stock, E recharge, Discounts and Price override
• Responsible for planning and timely completion of audit work delegated by team lead/supervisor with a focus on quality output, proactively seeks feedback on assignments.

• Main business: Backend for Coimbatore region
• Main duties: Report to Cluster Head
• Supervise DB Stores: DB management
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Collaborate with the MIS group and contribute in making quality products
• Attend regular management and operation meetings at all the plants
• Ensure Distributors & Channel Partners satisfaction with respect to all aspect of payouts
• Channel Management - Distributors and Channel Partners
• Preparation of MIS on Collections & Acquisitions, Performance Vs Targets
• Stock Audit coverage @ 100% including Fixed Assets audit
• Ensure FIFO, Ageing and rebalancing
• Recovery against unresolved gaps in inventory/ cash/ card/ e top up, etc
• Gathered latest information from each department and updated the information on the MIS systems