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R. HARIKRISHNAN

Pammal,India

Summary

Accomplished finance professional with expertise in accounts receivable, accounts payable, and inventory & asset management. Demonstrates proficiency in financial analysis, statutory compliance, and auditing & budgeting, ensuring accurate reports and documentation. Skilled in time & team management, tax filing and planning, account reconciliation, and risk management. Committed to optimising financial operations and driving organisational success through strategic planning and meticulous attention to detail.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience

Work history

Associate Controller-Finance

Maersk Global Services Private Limited
02.2012 - 09.2025
  • Company Overview: Captive BPO of AP Moller Maersk (Shipping Liners & Logistics)
  • US Entity(Maersk Line Agency)
  • - Responsible for financial accounting reporting, budgeting & forecasting.
  • - Acting Team manager managing12+ team members when Manager is on away.
  • - Analyzing the GL accounts (P&L) Revenue and cost based on SO & PO for leading customers in US approving the accruals to post.
  • - Good experience in preparing budget for USA company codes.
  • - Annual expense budget of $150 million by closely partnering with individual departments to control, monitor and understand the nature of each cost element.
  • - Provide timely and accurate variance analysis to department heads and executive management so that necessary changes to the business plan could be implemented without delay.
  • - Intimating Cost Centre Owners for huge variances Actual vs. Budgets with numbers if any.
  • - Calculating Monthly Remuneration using Marginal Pricing Method and finalizing with Copenhagen (Head Office) for proper reporting.
  • - Internal Control for Expenses – e.g., identified and recoded Travel & Entertainment costs wrongly coded in SAP TEM to correct expense codes.
  • - Handling different activities within company code such as Agency, Gensets, Intermodal & LOC.
  • - Explaining the variances Actual vs Budgets to Cluster CFO on month end.
  • - Calculating monthly taxes for each activity and sending to Tax department for approval.
  • - Passing all monthly income / expenses Journal Entries on time.
  • - Monitoring the intercompany expenses and assisting the Intercompany team to clear aged items.
  • - Monitoring all Bank Accounts (GBP, EUR, USD & CAD) and clearing open items on time.
  • - Advising and coordinating with Bank to correct errors if any.
  • - Maintain Green in internal Control Dashboard for management purpose.
  • - Analyze the Balance Sheet for timely and proper clearance of items.
  • - Monthly calls with EUR & NAM Cluster CFO for Balance sheet Reconciliations.
  • - Providing proper cost center and expenses GL to AP team to create PO for monthly recurring entries.
  • - Creating Internal Order in SAP to track various expenses.
  • - In-depth knowledge in SAP.
  • France Entity(Maersk Line Agency)
  • End to End ATR GL Process
  • Collaborate extensively with Auditors during interim and year-end Audit Processes.
  • Statutory Audit performed well ahead of timeline.
  • Investigate and resolve discrepancies in monthly bank accounts while under tight deadlines.
  • Monthly social contributions, Quarterly & yearly Employee Tax payments reviewed and paid on time in Coordination with HR.
  • Supported in Financial Planning & Preparation of Yearly Budget.
  • Preparation of Service Level Agreements.
  • Expertise in SAP Access Request management and SAP Master Data Governance.
  • Spain Entity(APMT Spain Railways)
  • End to End ATR GL Process – NON-SAP entity.
  • Review of Revenue, Variable cost & Preparation of SGNA Accruals.
  • Supported in AP & AR functions. since it’s a non-SAP entity, migrated all the process from country.
  • Taking care of Bank Reconciliations, vendor fund transfers and Manual fund transfers.
  • Preparation of SGNA Budget.
  • Started in Maersk as Senior executive and presently as Associate Controller-Finance

Senior Accounts officer

Chemoil Advanced Management Services (p) Ltd
10.2005 - 02.2012
  • Company Overview: Captive BPO-Back office for CHEMOIL ENERGY LTD Headquartered in Singapore - Petroleum trading
  • Accounts Payable - Managed a team of five members.
  • Accounts Receivable - Analyzing outstanding receivables and sending reminder letters to the customers. Preparation of AR Roll forward on monthly basis.
  • General Ledger - Bank Reconciliation Statement, Intercompany Reconciliation, Prepaid Analysis, Depreciation & Amortization, Preparation of Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Schedule, Assisting in Preparation of Monthly Financials, Co-ordination and responding to the auditors/front office for their queries, and Variance analysis between Forecast & Actual.
  • Taxations - Verification of Taxes charged in Vendor Invoices (US Taxation), if dispute arises sending mails or interacting with vendors. GST (Singapore) analysis on monthly basis.
  • Handled US, UK, Singapore & UAE Accounting Modules.
  • Designation: Senior Accounts officer
  • Nature of Business: Captive BPO-Back office for CHEMOIL ENERGY LTD Headquartered in Singapore - Petroleum trading

Accounts Executive

Thirumalai Cargo Services Pvt Ltd
12.1999 - 10.2005
  • Company Overview: Clearing & Forwarding Agent (Air & Sea)
  • Preparing export and import customs documents.
  • Having knowledge in customs clearing both in AIRPORT & HARBOUR.
  • Handling Daily Accounts transactions and maintaining ledgers & day books.
  • Close monitoring of funds to be received from the customers for the service rendered.
  • Processing of cheque and releasing money against approved vouchers.
  • Preparation of quotations to customers.
  • Reporting to Manager about the Daily receipts and expenses.
  • Preparation of Trial balance, Profit & Loss Account and Balance sheet.
  • Designation: Accounts Executive
  • Nature of Business: Clearing & Forwarding Agent (Air & Sea)

Accounts & Administrative Executive

Arco Exports (P) Limited
06.1995 - 11.1999
  • Company Overview: Leather Manufacturing
  • Employee Payroll, Recruitment process and settlement of relieving employees.
  • Preparation of salaries for permanent employees and wages for casual laborers.
  • Knowledge in preparation of Contract documents.
  • Close monitoring of Leave taken by the employees.
  • Preparing PF & ESI declaration and paying promptly before the due dates.
  • Maintenance of Accounts payable and receivables.
  • Designation: Accounts & Administrative Executive
  • Nature of Business: Leather Manufacturing

Education

Bachelor of commerce - Accounting

Madras University
Chennai

Skills

  • Accounts Receivable
  • Accounts Payable
  • Inventory & Asset Management
  • Reports & Documentation
  • Financial Analysis
  • Statutory Compliance
  • Auditing & Budgeting
  • Time & Team Management
  • Tax filing and planning
  • Account reconciliation
  • Risk Management

Personal Details

Languages Known : English & Tamil

Accomplishments

  • Maersk Korea Intercompany related process successfully migrated from Maersk Global services, China.
  • Maersk France GL process migrated from Maersk Global Services, Manila Philippines.
  • Maersk France statutory accounting (FR GAAP) migrated from France.
  • SAP to NFTP Migrations for Maersk France Agency entity.
  • APM Terminals Railways, Spain – GL process migration from Spain.
  • Under APMT Railways, migrated with 47 Open Audit findings(GRC-RICC) from Tangier team and reduced to zero.
  • Centralized One stream Reporting implemented for Europe Region. All the KPI validation Accounts and Disclosure Accounts centrally updated (around 48 entities).

Personal Details

  • Date of Birth : 1973-09-22
  • Marital Status : Married
  • Father's Name : A. Ranganathan
  • Passport Number : N4517065
  • Educational Qualification : B.com

Timeline

Associate Controller-Finance

Maersk Global Services Private Limited
02.2012 - 09.2025

Senior Accounts officer

Chemoil Advanced Management Services (p) Ltd
10.2005 - 02.2012

Accounts Executive

Thirumalai Cargo Services Pvt Ltd
12.1999 - 10.2005

Accounts & Administrative Executive

Arco Exports (P) Limited
06.1995 - 11.1999

Bachelor of commerce - Accounting

Madras University

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