ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN

Global Accounting & Finance lead for Ford's connected services domain, focused on developing highly automated and sustainable processes for mobility products and services in a highly complex and dynamic business environment.

Accounting, Finance, Regulatory, and Tax Compliance lead for India Mobility entities, which support global operations and external customers in providing IT solutions in the mobility domain.

Key stakeholder in laying down the Finance systems strategy for the Asia Pacific region, in line with statutory and organizational requirements.

Lead Finance system launches, including managing systems budgets, collaborating with the operation and IT teams in prioritizing and balancing requirements, reallocation of funds, monitoring, and reporting progress.

Key Accomplishments:

Over 40 local, legacy, and regional applications covering about 85% of the functions/markets were replaced with intuitive common global applications.

Handled merger/consolidation of entities/new businesses in markets including Thailand, China, Australia, and India.

Develop and sustain process controls spanning functions, including Purchasing, Product Development, IT, Accounting, and Finance.

Lead and perform process reviews, and collaborate with the business in addressing control issues and interpreting policy guidelines. Lead, moderate change management governance.
Roll out, monitor, and report control self-assessment as part of SOX certification.
Manage the controls helpline as the local incident coordinator and work with leadership in addressing whistleblower complaints and other control breaches.

Key Accomplishments:

• Helped establish a sustainable control model, aiding centralization of functions from a market-centric to a functional reporting model.
• Significantly enhanced process controls with key focus on data protection, System controls, and segregation of duties across the region through sustained process guidelines, reviews, and awareness sessions.

• Risk profile business processes to identify high risk areas and plan audits
• Plan and perform audits across functions and report out on control gaps vis a vis Company policies, guidelines and/ or external reporting requirements
• Review major Operation Identified Comments and perform sustainability reviews
• Performed audits of diverse functions including Purchasing, Product Development, Sales & Services, Warranty, Remarketing, Inventory handling, Manufacturing, Fixed Assets, Health and Safety, S-Ox reporting, Secretarial compliance, Supplier credit restructuring, Dealer and retail credit processes, Legal process etc., across Ford and JV’s in over 25 countries
• Several issues and control failures identified and corrective actions implemented

• Perform Intercompany accounting processes, including month close accounting, reserves, payments and reconciliations
• Perform control risk assessments and report out control inefficiencies
• Travelled to South Africa to stabilise the Intercompany accounting operations and successfully transitioned it to Global Business Services (GBS) in India
• Held additional responsibility for the North American and European Intercompany operations post stabilising the South African operations

• Company Overview: The firm is well established in the industry and specialises in Statutory, Internal and Tax audits of prominent Listed and Private Companies, Firms and Trusts
• Clients serviced span over a range of industries including Automobiles, Textiles, Agro Products, Construction, Retail, Film distribution, and Laminations
• The firm provided rich experience to corporate audits across industries and helped gain first hand exposure in specialised areas including due diligence, certification, Tax audits, Internal audits, drafting of SOP’s, Accounting and advisory services etc
• The firm is well established in the industry and specialises in Statutory, Internal and Tax audits of prominent Listed and Private Companies, Firms and Trusts
• Clients serviced span over a range of industries including Automobiles, Textiles, Agro Products, Construction, Retail, Film distribution, and Laminations

Oversee accounting for production inventory hosted in all Ford production hubs globally, including maintenance of cost records, calculation of labor and overhead absorption rates, and statutory reporting. Analyze inventory variance and reporting.