MBA (Finance) experienced in Corporate Accounts and Audit with SAP knowledge seeks senior managerial assignments in Accounts / Audit with reputed organization.

1. VINOD KUMAR PILLAI
Mobile No.: +971-564554904 / Whatsapp 9945384397
E-Mail: pillai_vinod@hotmail.com Skype id : pillai_vinod
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 25th
January, 1970
Present Address Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Permanent Address: House No. 261, Krishna Bhavan, A. Narayanapuram, Doorvaninagar Post,
Bangalore-560016.
Other Address in India Flat 1A, Amropalli Apartment, 8/1E, Naktala Road, Kolkata – 700047.
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Malayalam and Bengali.
Education
• MBA (Finance) from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Calcutta
University in 2008
• B.Com. (Hons.) from Bhawanipore Education Society College, Kolkata (Calcutta University) in 1993
Other Course:
• 2 years course in Advanced Diploma in Systems Management from NIIT, Kolkata
Certification
• Yellow Belt in Six Sigma in 2012
Job Objective
MBA (Finance) experienced in Corporate Accounts and Audit with SAP knowledge seeks senior managerial
assignments in Accounts / Audit with reputed organization.
Profile Summary
 A dynamic result oriented professional with over 20 years of work experience with employment in
renowned groups in India including National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. and Balmer Lawrie group co.
with expertise in :
Budgeting Auditing Inspection
Strategic Planning MIS Reporting Statutory Compliance
Treasury Management Risk Management Taxation
 A diverse and customer focus manager adept in sustaining a positive work environment that fosters team
performance with strong communication skills and capable of articulating new ideas and changes and
getting them implemented in quick time.
 Having leadership skills in analytics and negotiation while at the same time mentoring and motivating
individuals towards maximizing productivity while simultaneously forming cohesive team environments
.
Core Competencies
Strategic Planning & Financial Control
• Proficient in formulating budgets, implementing systems & procedures, conducting variance analysis,
preparing key reports to exercise financial control to enhance overall efficiency of the organisation.
• Ability to create a financial model from scratch, or to adapt an existing one for a new project.
• Performing the key role of validating Business Plans & Commercial Strategies for maximizing Profits &
Revenue generation in line with Corporate Goals.
• Determining financial objectives, preparing & implementing Systems, Policies & Procedures to facilitate
internal Financial Control in the areas of Pricing, Credit and Collection.
Financial Accounting
• Experienced in conceptualizing and implementing financial procedures with working capital management,
profit monitoring and building internal financial controls.
• Overseeing financial statements including trial balance, bank reconciliation reports, profit & loss account,
age-wise accounts payables & receivables statements and balance sheets.
• Preparing the MIS reports to keep track of financial performance.
Audits & Taxation
• Handling complete planning & management activities for ensuring the completion of audits within time
• Conducting Inspections and follow up on implementation of the inspection observations.

2. • Coordinate with the Audit teams and provide audit implementation feedback to the management.
Organisational Experience
Nov’15 onwards Working as Finance Manager, Skystreet General Trading LLC, Dubai –
Reporting to the Managing Director
Role:
• Setting up the Accounting system for the start-up company.
• Approving the pricing and costing for trading projects in the organization.
• Analyzing and interpreting financial information for planning and control purposes.
• Formulate policies in co-ordination with other departments for ensuring a smooth process orientation.
• Monitoring credit limits and obtain security instruments for approving order conversion of the marketing
teams to ensure collections within credit period.
• Developing solutions to problems utilizing formal education and judgement.
• Undertake feasibility study for new projects and submit for management approval.
Responsibilities include basic accounting functions, monitoring and follow up on outstanding, analyze project
costing and revenues, manage financial commitments based on postdated cheques issued. Prepare monthly
report on the organization's finances to management.
April’14 to Nov’ 2015 Working as Finance Manager, Royaloak Furniture India LLP, Bangalore –
Reporting to the Managing Director
Role:
• Accountable for planning, forecasting and creation of budgets under direction of business.
• Supervise the accounting functions in SAP – G/L, A/P, A/R, F/A accounting compliant with Indian GAAP.
• Producing thorough, accurate and timely budget and expense management reports for the organization.
• Analyzing and interpreting financial information for planning and control purposes.
• Develop the policies that govern the Company's revenue generation as well as process flow administration
including defining the accounting system roadmap and system requirements for the future.
• Defining policies for monitoring of credit limits as well as outstanding for dealers pan India with follow up
with the marketing teams as well as dealers to ensure collections within credit period and review on
weekly sales and collections across distribution and retail.
• Co-ordinate with insurers and ensure all risks are adequately covered for assets as well as employees.
• Accounting for monthly payroll activities and ensuring employees are paid as expected on time.
• Developing solutions to problems utilizing formal education and judgement.
• Monitoring the inventory as well as judiciously use overdrafts obtained from banks.
Responsibilities include analyzing trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to
predict future revenues and expenses and validate variances observed against budgetary limits. Resolve
deficiencies observed in internal audit / statutory audit and initiate process improvement measures. Report
organization's finances to management, and offers suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies, and
assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
Sept’13 to March’14 Consultant for Banthia Group of Co., Jain Jain & Co. and Lakshmi Art Press
• Scrutiny of vouchers and preparation of books of accounts.
• Filling of income tax returns. NBFC returns with RBI,
• Preparation of minute book under companies act and filling of yearly returns of company in MCA.
• Formulating and accounting for inventory purchase and sale and associated book keeping for a trading firm
May’11 - Jul’13 Worked for National Stock Exchange of India Ltd, Kolkata as Manager
(Accounts & Inspection) - Reporting to the Chief Manager, Operations.
Role:
• Head of the regional accounts division with responsibility of consolidation and audit of branch accounts.
• Supervised the inspection of the trading members registered in the Eastern Region on a yearly basis.
• Provide subject matter expertise and responding to queries on overall compliance to the Trading Members.
• Inform Trading members through training sessions of the changes in regulation like PMLA, FIU-IND.
• Identifying, investigating and resolving non-compliant activities of Trading Members by conducting due
diligence reviews and reporting on the remedial actions taken by members.

3. • Address Investor Awareness Seminars in different towns & cities in the Eastern Zone.
Highlights:
• Received a performance rating of “A-” Grade for the year 2011-12 and “A” Grade for the year 2012-13
• Renegotiated with existing as well as new service providers resulting in introduction of additional services
leading to a reduction in overall cash outflow.
• Completed pending inspections of 1st
qtr 2011-12 by July 31st
and re-engineered and put in place procedure
for focus area audits as well as suggested, debated and implemented procedures that decreased processing
time of members inspection data reducing the inspection timeline and thereby adhering to complete 95%
of all quarterly inspections within the quarter and 100% of the yearly inspections by 20th March each year.
• Conducted audits of 160 members during 2011-12 and about 130 members in 2012-13.
Dec’96 – May’11 Transafe Services Ltd at Kolkata (A Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. Undertaking)
Growth Path:
Dec’96 – Mar’00 Accounts Officer (Reporting to Sr. Manager – Finance)
Apr’00 – Mar’06 Asst. Manager – Accounts (Reporting to Sr. Manager – Fin. cum Co. Secretary)
Apr’06 – Aug’07 Deputy Manager – Accounts (Reporting to General Manager F&A)
Sep’07 – Sep’08 Deputy Factory Manager – Kharagpur (Reporting to MD & CEO)
Oct’08 – Dec’09 Manager – Commercial (Reporting to MD & CEO)
Jan’10 – Jan’11 Manager - Accounts - Reporting to Chief Financial Officer
Feb’11 – May’11 SBU Accountant for Logistics Div. and FCRR Services (Reporting to VP - Finance)
Role:
As Accounts Officer (Reporting to Sr. Manager – Finance) [Dec’96 – Mar’00]
• Cash handling and all voucher preparaton.
• Conducted scrutiny of ledger accounts forming schedules to accounts
• Reconciliation of interest charges on working capital & term loan and co-ordinate with banks for reversal of
the excess interest charges with value-date credit.
• Assisted Senior Manager in preparation of schedules of annual accounts and conducted audit of the same
As Asst. Manager – Accounts (Reporting to Sr. Manager - Finance cum Co. Secretary) [Apr’00 – Mar’06]
• Preparation of monthly and quarterly accounts along with variance analysis.
• Computed monthly state wise sales tax reconciliation statement for payment of the same
• Coordinated with banks for management of term loan and working capital credit facilities.
• Reconciliation of debtor balances by Co-ordinating with branches for monitoring receivables of customers.
• Accounting for monthly payroll activities and ensuring employees were paid as expected on time.
• Consolidation and audit of accounts by Internal Audit, Systems Audit, Statutory Audit and Tax Audit.
As Deputy Manager – Accounts (Reporting to General Manager F&A) [Apr’06 – Aug’07]
• Scrutiny of monthly / quaterly accounts and preparation of budgetary variance reports.
• Implementation of internal & management audit recommendations.
• Calculated branch wise monthly sales tax / VAT & purchase tax liabilities.
• Supervise monthly salary administration and issue TDS certificates (Form 16 and 16A).
• Liased with ITO & JCIT for obtaining Lower Tax Deduction Certificate.
• Liased with SAP Consultants for implementation & customization of SAP as per business requirement
• Coordinated and ensured smooth implementation of SAP within a record timeframe of 10 months.
As Dy. Factory Manager – Kharagpur, reporting to MD & CEO [Sep’07 – Sep’08]
• Identified, researched and negotiated for selection of competent vendors for supply of machinery &
services for the factory saving 8% on the company’s budget allocation for the project.
• Liaised and received approvals from various statutory & local bodies like Factory Acts, Pollution Control
Board, WBIIDC and Excise etc. for work related to factory setup.
• Maintained cordial relation with statutory bodies and unions to ensure smooth setting up of factory.
• Implemented and monitored factory expenses in line with budgeted amounts with fortnightly reporting.
• Assisted subordinates on work procedures and for their self development
• Finalized monthly Manufacturing & Trading accounts for the interim period - May ’08 to Oct ’08.
• Examined records to effect monthly excise payments & filing excise returns.

4. As Manager (Commercial) [Oct’08 – Dec’09]
• Coordinated with delinquent debtors and followed up for the payment outstanding & asset recovery.
• Handled contract negotiation with the vendors and implemented statutory compliances.
• Scrutinized excise records and handled filing of excise returns of Kharagpur Plant.
As Manager - Accounts (Reporting to Chief Financial Officer) [Jan’10 – Jan’11]
• Computation of excise and service tax returns.
• Assisted CFO in managing regulatory functions and compliances viz. Income Tax, Excise and VAT.
• Supervised the monthly salary administration and allied accounting.
• Filling e-TDS returns and issuing TDS certificates within stipulated due dates.
As SBU Accountant Logistics and FCRR Services (Reporting to VP - Finance) [Feb’11 – May’11]
• Supported SBU decision making, financial control, finalization of periodic accounts, expense & payment
processing, rationalization of costs and reconciliations
• Liaised with branches for monitoring receivables of delinquent customers
• Prepared budgetary figures & monthly accounts with variance reporting
• Supervised monthly salary administration and allied accounting
• Handled Filling of E-TDS and VAT returns within stipulated due dates
Highlights:
As Accounts Officer and Assistant Manager Accounts
• Reduced interest costs on CC by swapping and principal repayment moratorium on new loans obtained.
• Monitoring of interest on CC and recovery excess interest charges by banks with value-date credit.
• Increased term loan facilities and swapped existing working capital facilities with other banks
As Deputy Manager – Accounts
• Improved the cash flow of the company by obtaining lower tax deduction certificate from ITO.
• Implementation of SAP within the Co.
• Converted all accounting in SAP within a record 10 months and ensured smooth flow of information.
As Deputy Factory Manager & Manager Commercial
• Selected as a core member of the MD’s office during Sept’07 to Dec’09 due to continuous process
improvement initiatives.
• Arrested all labour issues by continuous negotiating with labour unions.
• Ensured setting up of factory shed with machinery installations within a record time of 7 months.
• Ensured smooth commencement of production with 1st lot of excisable units dispatched by May 2008.
• Reduced working capital costs by around 15% by effectively monitoring inventory and purchases.
As SBU Accountant for Logistics Division and FCRR Services
• Created a financial model and generated trip wise profitability statement for logistics operations.
• Initiated tracking of each logistics movement ensuring faster turnaround of the trailers and actual position
of the consignments.