RENNI V R

Career Objective
“A commercially astute, key player with a proven track record and many
significant achievements, illustrating sound business, accounting and
commercial administration expertise, as well as a number of other
demonstrated abilities. Experience encompasses wide ranging
management disciplines within a multi disciplined, multi site, ever
changing environment in the Middle East and India. Now looking to
continue making a significant contribution with in a similar role for a
E-mail: company that offers an opportunity for career progression.”
renni_vr@live.c
Academic Profile
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 B. Com. (Bachelor of Commerce), 1992 – 95, Kerala University.
Contact No:  Chartered Accountant (Course Completed), 1995 – 98, ICAI.
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Professional Appointments (14 years & 11 months experience)
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 Finance Controller, Fadi Contracting, Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia,
Permanent June 2005 – till.
Address:  Senior Accountant, Awael Al Arab, Dammam, Saudi Arabia,
Syladri April 2004 – May 2005.
Temple Lane,  Manager – Accounts & Administration, ARC Group, Mumbai,
Altharamoodu, India, November 2001 – March 2004.
Kadakkal –  Accountant, S H Hospitals (P) Ltd, Kollam, Kerala, India,
691536, January 2000 – October 2001.

Kollam, Kerala,  Audit Clerk, Ravi & Sabin Chartered Accountants, Trivandrum,

India. India, November 1995 – December 1999.

Language & Computer Skills

Present
Address:  Language: English (proficient), Arabic (Basic), Hindi
(proficient), Malayalam (proficient) & Tamil (conversational).
Finance
Controller,  Computer: Familiarity with generic and ERP Finance/
Accounting software (SAP-FI/CO, Tally 9.0, Peach Tree, etc.)
Fadi
Contracting, Synopsis
P O Box: 8003,  To establish and maintain financial and management procedures
Al Jubail – in accordance with local laws and regulations (SOCPA), company
31951, policies and procedures and Generally Accepted Accounting
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Saudi Arabia. principles (GAAP).
 Finalization of Accounts, Budgeting, Taxation, Pay Roll, Stores,
Date of Birth : Costing, Company Law, Export-Import, Banking, Insurance,
28th May 1974 Business Plan, Cash Flow and General Administration.

Marital
Status:
Married

Nationality :
Indian

Passport No:
F 3343679

KSA D License

Brief Career History – Middle East

June 2005 – till date

Fadi Contracting, Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

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Sub contractor of Aramco, Total Turnover 125 Million per Year,
850 employees working under this organization, Doing Projects,
Maintenance, Operations, Trading and Manpower.

Finance Controller

Field of Activities:
 Maintain, administrate and supervise entire Finance Department operations which
include Accounts, Credit, etc.
 Reviews and authorizes preparation of financial reports i.e. Balance Sheet, Income
Statement, Cash Flow, etc.
 Supervising and guiding the maintenance of accurate requisite and statutory accounting
records.
 Managing daily, weekly and monthly forecast processes for cash management.
 Preparation and analysis of financial and expense performance including analysis of
actual performance versus budget/forecast.
 Lead cash reviews to drive collections, minimize past dues & optimize working capital
turnover.
 Lead Planning sessions to review three-year business outlook and prepare budgets for
following year.
 Review contract profitability over life of contracts (3 to 10 years).
 Manage quarterly closing, analysis & reporting of financials.
 Drive compliance & controllership in day to day operations across all sites & processes.
 Cash / bank and account reconciliations.
 Preparation and response/action for periodic/yearly internal/statutory audits.

Apr 2004 – May 2005

Awael Al Arab, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Senior Accountant

Field of Activities:
 Responsible for supervising the overall accounting activities (GL, AP, AR, FA, Payroll,
Project & Cost Accounting) and provide approvals on their transactions based on
Delegated Level of Authority.
 Ensure that adequate financial and internal controls are in place for all activities relating
to the accounting functions.
 Perform month-end closing process, including review of GL entries, preparing accruals,
and other closing journals as necessary.
 Close periods after approving all journal entries and open the next one and ensure that
the periodic account closing activities are done on a timely and accurate basis.
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  Supervise the General Ledger accountant while performing General Ledger activities
through:
• Approve journal vouchers and batches for entry of financial transactions into
the General Ledger.
• Follow up and investigate journal vouchers with missing information related
to sources.
• Maintain integrity of general ledger and Chart of Accounts and open new GL
Accounts as necessary.
 Supervise the Accounts Payable accountant while performing Account Payable activities
through:
• Approve payments vouchers as per approved limits specified in the
Delegation of Authority Matrix.
• Supervise and approve the matching of invoices, purchase orders and
receiving reports and investigate reasons for mismatches.
 Supervise the Account Receivable accountant while performing Account Receivable
activities through:
• Supervise and approve the process of issuing customer/tenants invoices.
• Ensure the proper integration and generation of collection entries.
• Ensure defining and maintaining a complete, accurate, up to date customer
records.
 Supervise the Fixed Assets accountant while performing Fixed Assets activities through:
• Ensure the proper tracking, recording and control of fixed assets at
Corporate.
• Ensure that required physical inventories, write-offs, as required for fixed
assets.
• Ensure that proper computation of depreciation on fixed assets is performed.
• Maintain adequate audit trails to permit tracking a transaction from
beginning to completion to allow for the detection and correction of errors that
arise.
 Supervise the Payroll accountant while performing the Payroll activities through:
• Audit and approve payroll sheets payment before obtaining final review and
approval from the Director of Finance to process corporate office employee salaries.
• Ensure correct deductions, reimbursements for employees as required.
 Supervise the Project & Cost accountant while performing the Project & Cost activities
through:
• Supervise the entering of expenses to be charged to ongoing construction /
other projects and ensure the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of accounting
data being posted to the general ledger.
• Supervise Costing & Projects Accountant in calculating/allocating projects
direct & indirect costs (contractors, invoices, electricity activities etc…).
• Supervise Costing & Project Accountant in calculating project direct cost &
allocating direct cost.
• Supervise creation of cost reports on per-unit or total basis for the
department or working unit. (e.g. mechanical maintenance, electrical
maintenance).

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• Review and approve cost reports (on fixed or variable costs) and submit to
Financial Controller with analysis.
• Discuss cost variances with each department director.
• Supervise the Project & Cost Accountant in the process of maintaining the
project cost code structure (addition, deletion, modifying etc…).
 Maintain accuracy of work and compliance with the established rules and accounting
principles.
 Ensure that all accounting entries are supported with valid documentation.
 Ensure a method of double-entry accounting for recording transactions in the general
ledger (each transaction has debits and credits with total debits equal to total credits).
 Provide advice, guidance, direction, and authorization to personnel to carry out their
duties consistently with established policies.
 Delegate some responsibilities to appropriate subordinates in order to benefit from
smooth running of the section’s operation.
 Work with external auditors throughout the process of preparing the audited financial
statements of Awael Al Arab.

Brief Career History – India

Nov 2001 – Mar 2004

ARC Group, Mumbai

Five organizations under this group; Aero Rubber Corporation,
Aero Rubber Seals, Ambika Rubber Components(P) Ltd, Rubber
Extrusion Process, Sankar Transport, Auto Rubber Cast.
Manufacturing Oil Seals, Rubber Parts, and Plastic Parts, etc for
Vehicles and supply to leading Vehicle manufacturers. Around
1000 clients and 500 employees under this group.

Manager – Accounts & Administration

Field of Activities:
 Maintain the general ledger, creating journal entries, accruing and allocating revenues
and expenses and various account reconciliations.
 Credit controlling and responsible for accounts receivable & accounts payable.
 Deal with staffs, payroll calculation, vacation settlements, employee’s vacation
scheduling and monitoring of the financial accounts assigned.
 Profit & Loss forecasting, monthly closing, annual and monthly budget preparation &
special projects.
 Prepare of annual & interim and tax financial statements and accompanying notes.
 Invoicing, making time sheets, quotations, purchase orders and all other procurement
activities.
 Cash & bank related all jobs.
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 Organizational structuring, development, document controlling, invoice analyzing, cost
analyzing and coordinating and scheduling manpower.
 All accounts jobs up to finalization i.e.; preparing voucher, maintaining cash, bank and
other ledgers, reconciliation of all party accounts & divisions, preparation of bank
reconciliation statement, trial balance, cash flow statement, manufacturing and profit
and loss account and balance sheet.

Jan 2000 – Oct 2001

S H Hospitals (P) Ltd, Kollam, Kerala

100 bedded multi-specialty hospital with all support departments.

Accountant

Field of Activities:
 Maintained various books of accounts up to finalization and all financial and accounts
matters of the hospital.

Nov 1995 – Dec 1999

Ravi & Sabin Chartered Accountants Trivandrum, Kerala.

Leading one of the Chartered Accountants firm in Trivandrum, It is
a partnership firm with two leading Chartered Accountants. Audit
Governmental & Semi Governmental Organizations i.e.; State
Bank of India, State Bank of Travancore and Other leading banks,
KSBC, Malabar Cements, KTDC, KSBC, Oriental Insurance,
Titanium, etc.
Audit Clerk
Field of Activities:
Handling statutory audit, tax audit & internal audit of Limited Companies, Partnership
Firms, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, Banks, other Financial Institutions, etc.

Responsibility and Nature of work as an Internal Auditor

 Periodic (mostly quarterly or biannually) reporting to the management on flaws and
irregularity on various issues relating to entities.
 Statutory Compliances.
 Compliance of previous Audit Reports.
 Standard accounting procedures.
 Internal control system.
 Maintenance of financial records.
 Control over cash, bank and expenses transactions.
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  Proprietary of expenses.
 Working capital management.
 Funds management.
 Framing & implementation of system.
 Periodic reconciliation of major and inter unit accounts.
 Physical verification of cash including surprise checks.
 Debtor reconciliations.
 Performing Audits with Standard Audit procedures.

Responsibility and Nature of work as a Statutory Auditor

 Opening & closing balance verification.
 Cash, bank & journal vouching.
 Bank reconciliation.
 Sales & purchase vouching.
 Fixed assets schedule verification.
 Ledger scrutiny (Debtors, Creditors & General Ledger)
 Finalization of balance sheet.
 Notes of Accounts
 Disclosure of significant accounting policy.
 Compliances of Statutory requirement.
 Compliances with accounting standards.
 Performing Audits with Standard Audit procedures.

Strength acquired from work experience

 Able to work in Multicultural Environment.
 Able to work under pressure & meet the deadlines.
 Able to lead the organization in overall matters.

CTC & Visa Status

 Salary: US $ 1,200
 Employment Status: Full Time, Contract.
 Transportation & Accommodation: Provide or 25% of Salary.
 Visa Status & Driving License: Transferable Iqama & KSA Driving License

References
Eng. Fadi B. Al Zahrani, General Manager, Fadi Contracting, Al Jubail, Saudi
Arabia, Mobile: +966 505 959 777, Email: fadi@fadico.net.

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Eng. Khalied B. Al Zahrani, Manager Maintenance, Saudi Telecom, Mobile: +966
503 957 775, Email: kbzahrani@stc.com.

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