Gaurav Dama

- Gaurav Peraj Dama - Career Objective - To utilize my ideas and skills, for the work that offers professional growth while being creative, innovative and flexible. Professional Experience - Finance professional with over Five and a half year of experience in Financial Accounting, Financial and Management Reporting and Taxation. Strengths - Ability to be a part of teams, willingness and ability to learn, welcomes change. Work Experience: 1) Bhatia Brothers - Assistant Manager - Business Intelligence (June 17 - Present)  Preparation of Financial Statements – Profit & Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Cash flow Statement, Schedules and Minutes.  Providing commentary towards variances in reported number.  Preparation of Management Reports like - Weekly PNL - Customer-wise profitability - Division-wise Earning Report - Product-wise earning Report - Project Tracker - Activity List  Budgeting and Forecasting for business unit responsible  Comparison of actual versus budgeted and forecasted figures.  Assisting in issues related to accounting and finance  Handling issues related to ERP  Handling issues related to organizational data, processes and reporting solutions.  Working continuously for betterment of existing financial / MIS reports and give recommendations for new reports and its development.  Responsible to validate and rectify ledger errors and TB balancing errors to reflect correct data and numbers.  Handling Accounts receivable and payable position to ensure proper liquidity.  To ensure that the contracts for debtors and creditors are properly documented and rates charged are as per contract.  To eliminate any revenue leakage.  Liaising with auditors to ensure relevant details are provided and compliance issues are met. 2) Credit Suisse AG - Exempt Non-Officer – Financial Accounting (Oct’13 –June’17)  Preparation of Financial Statements – Profit & Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Cash flow Statement, Schedules and Minutes.  Managing Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable position of Client.  Reviewing accounting approach, accounting entries, profit and loss account, balance sheet, cash flow statement, notes to accounts (schedules), trail balance.  Financials Controlling – Ensuring the commentary for variances in Financial Statements.  Investigating the Intercompany break both P&L and Balance Sheet.  Reviewing inter-company policies and approaches to understand and eliminate variances.  Comply with SOX, Audit and group policies.  Sending break reports to global stakeholders on a daily basis with variance analysis and commentary.  Driving monthly calls with global finance teams explaining break report.  Handling inter-company recharges based on services rendered.  Ensuring accruals and provisions are posted as per month end deadlines.  Settlement of inter-company receivables and payables balances.  Ensure no aged balances, monitoring of intercompany breaks and resolution thereof on a timely basis  Ensuring timely and quality signoff of accounting balances on a monthly basis  Working with Process Management team for accuracy management, standardization, cost reduction exercise, root cause analysis, feedbacks, control sheets, etc.  Perform analytical review of the process on a monthly basis and preparation of governance packs and MIS report.  Undertaken various activities as a part of Sports (Cricket, Football, In-door events) and Philanthropy Committee (Blood donation drive, Joy of giving, Nepal relief activity). 3) APM Terminals India Pvt. Ltd. (A.P. Moller–Maersk Group) Designation -Senior Officer - Finance and Accounts (Jan’12-Oct’13) Receivables and Revenue Booking –  Directly responsible for accurate and timely revenue booking in financial software.  Keep an eye on keeping Daily Sales Outstanding below target level.  Addressing customer queries on a various matters.  Checking and processing customer refund request as and when required.  Preparing and reviewing SOPs as and when required.  Passing monthly accrual working and booking. Statutory Compliance/Audit/Risk Analysis Monthly service tax payment including cenvat credit utilization.  Assisting in monthly Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) payment.  Assisting in timely data submission for statutory and tax audit as required. Reconciliation statement Revenue and volume reconciliation on a daily and weekly basis.  Bank reconciliation on a Weekly basis  General ledger and customer ledger reconciliation on a monthly basis. MIS Reports Weekly revenue and volume report V/s Budget Revenue and volume with variance analysis and Weekly Profit and Loss reporting with variance analysis  Monthly Customer wise profitability report by taking into consideration total volume handled for each customer, revenue generated, cost incurred and ultimately deriving the profitability at CM1 and EBITDA level.  Monthly Shipping line wise profitability to keep a track on volume, revenue and costing and deriving profit at CM1 and EBITDA level. Recognitions and Developments Performer of the month for the month May’2013 for identifying and improving the weak links in revenue flow and enhancing the reliability and accuracy of reporting.  Undertaken a Green Belt PEX (Process Excellence) Project for developing and implementing new business segment in operational software for operational and finance (Invoicing to customer) activities.  Recognition for delivering customer-wise profitability on a monthly basis for various business segments on time to time from top management. ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS  Masters of Management Studies in Finance from Pillai’s Institute of Management Studies and Research, Panvel in 2012 securing Distinction.  Bachelor of Management Studies from V.P.M’s Joshi-Bedekar College, Thane, in 2010 securing Distinction. HOBBIES  Music, playing cricket and surfing on net. LANGUAGES  English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi. Date of birth : 13th July 1990. Residential Address : 303, Nandpark Building, Near Thakur Bunglow, Yashodhan Nagar, Thane (West) – 400606.