Guhan MuthuKumar

Experience

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  Expeditors

  Feb 2006 - Sept 2010

  Executive Finance

  >Excellent exposure and expertise in Vendor Management as the one point contact to the vendors for the whole of Chennai Branch with its Satellite offices.>Experience in maintaining around five Imprest Accounts at the same time, reconciling it , closing it every month ends.

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  Expeditors International (India) Pvt. Ltd.

  Oct 2010 - Jul 2013

  Senior Finance Executive

  >Experience in working on Financial Analytics.>In-depth experience in Credit Control & Credit limit set-ups for customers using Z-scores & AR Calls>Excellent exposure to working of GLs & analyzing the GL compare reports through MIS Reporting>Experience in analyzing the Variance analysis & Financial modeling>Understanding the working of FDs, Term Deposits maintained by the Company & coordinate with the banker on any queries in the same.

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  Randstad India

  Aug 2013 - Nov 2018

  >Managing a portfolio of collection of Rs. 500 Crore Per Annum from more than 350 customers of West India Region>Implementing a credit risk management environment of acceptable quality, in terms of established credit guidelines and determining the appropriate and effective collection policies and procedures>Executing sound and effective collection strategies including collection calls to delinquent accounts for resolution of past due balances to meet required business needs and performance measurements>Act as Business partner with the business heads & Regional heads to resolve their queries relating to finance & collections of the dues.>Analyze Bad Debt /review A/R Aging Overdue & kept under control>Train team members on technique, strategy, negotiation skills, handling difficult customers, typical profile of a delinquent customer and verbal cues for communication. >Analyze delinquent accounts and prepare report on high- risk accounts including recommendations for resolution, identify accounts that requires legal intervention or outside collection agency purview and coordinate collections with third party contractors>Evaluate effectiveness of current collection policies and procedures & monitoring violations of credit policies provide analysis, conclusions and recommendations, present findings to Senior Management and suggest appropriate actions and penalties.>Consistently Performed and achieved the Organization SLA and TAT at 98% for the past two years.>Engaged closely with Major customer through personal visits for Reconciliations/ collection of outstanding payments>Maintain close contact with customers’ key personnel & do RCA to resolve collection matters significantly avoiding bad debts.>Project done on DSO Reduction from 48 days to 28 days Show less >Coordinated and supervised the Invoicing for 1500+ clients with over 6000+ invoices raised in every month >Responsible for managing and training a team of 10 employees>Active Core Member team in the implementation of SAP - SD module in the invoicing process.>Developed and implemented standard operating procedures to monitor work flow to ensure department ran at a maximum efficiency>Identified any negative trends that required resolutions and reported complex issues to higher levels of management Show less

  • Associate Functional Manager - Collections & Credit Controller

    May 2015 - Nov 2018

  • Manager - Invoicing

    Aug 2013 - May 2015
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  WRITER BUSINESS SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED

  Dec 2018 - now

  Regional Manager - Finance & Accounts

  Responsibilities:• Monitoring transactions and working on SUN Accounting Software with respect to day to day Bills Payable & Bills Receivable. • Manage revenue accounting close-related functions and perform key month-end deferral assessments• Ensuring reclassification and accounting of wrong or unaccounted entries prior to closure of the General Ledgers.• Responsible for monthly profitability preparation, Budget vs. Actual preparation of Budget with variance analysis, business plan & Forecasting. • Planning and executing monthly / quarterly / annual closure schedules; providing monthly financial statements; administering the monthly closing process.Monitoring inventory consumption report and monthly physical verification of the inventory stock.• Debtors (Ageing) direct follow-up with customers & collection review with other region on weekly basis & ensure to bring minimum number of days - DSO.Preparing:o the revenue & expense budgets (Annual Operating Plan-AOP) in collaboration with the Chief Finance Officer for approval by the CEO / Board of Directors.o Monthly, quarterly and yearly MIS reports relating to GL accounts variance and liquidation of entitieso Vendor Reconciliation Statemento Monthly MIS Reports like PPT, P&L A/c, Receipt, Revenue report & Payment A/co Ageing Reports of Debtors and Creditorso Supervising daily Accounts Payable (AP) processes and clerks; managing vendor relations as well as timely and accurate processing of invoices, purchase orders, expense reports, credit memos and payment transactionso Helping the Audit &Taxation team in processing periodic GST & TDS returns of concerned authorities on-time and with accuracyMaintaining: • Client relationships with regards to the timely invoice submission & query resolutions • Inter departmental partnerships to collaborate to achieve common goal of the region• Frequent connects with the counterparts & top management to discuss on good practices & idea implementation Show less