Tamil Thendral

• Supervised accurate, efficient, and compliant completion of monthly financial reporting packages.
• Followed up with delinquent accounts to obtain funds and reduce aging balances.
• Prepared balance sheets, cash flow reports and income statements.
• Managed budgets, assets, portfolios, accounts payable, and receivable and general financial reporting procedures.

Reason for leaving

My current role isn't using all of my skills, and I would like to find someting more challenging.

M AY 2 020 — P RESENT

• Coordinate and perform 2 manufacturing and 6 commercial plants for every period end activities to ensure period is closed as per agreed timetable.
• Perform costing for materials, transfer pricing and transaction processing
• Perform Quarter Forecasting and CoPlan (Budget) reports and derive the per mille cost as per End Market expectation.
• Review reports and reconciliations prepared by team members to ensure
  outputs are accurate and long outstanding items are properly followed up
• Ensure internal controls (Sox) are adhered to and provide support to audit process so the entity able to manage the risk and control effectively
• Initiated BAU simplification process to End Market and eliminated redundant task.
• Perform testing of new systems/technology and processes as and when required to minimize potential problems to operations/helped spot and debug any errors before product launch
• Guided and coached new hires and global graduates to help them to achieve their full potential and start to work independently
• Proactively having a monthly once stakeholder engagement session with End Market for pulse checking and maintaining good relationships
• Conducted team bonding session activities and fun learning/games every Friday
• Completed more than 48 hours a year mandatory learning via BAT Hub Learning & Development
• Currently in a collaboration with Continuous Improvement (CI) team to further develop on the system automation

Additional Contribution

• Project: Bill of Material (BOM) Copy Automation.
• Significantly reduced the overall effort of generating a BOM copy manually by automating it.
• The automation has resulted in generating the BOM copy by 5 times faster.
• The manual method requires an average of 130 hours but by automating it, the time taken has been reduced to an average of 24 hours.
• The automation is built by using macro in Microsoft Excel
• Currently in collaboration with Continuous Improvement (CI) team to further develop on the automation.

APRIL 2016 — M AY 2 020

• Responsible for supporting the accounting operations of the business by processing merchandise invoices, making payments and resolving queries
• Perform daily Accounts Payable & Intercompany transaction activities in Siemens Shared Services for ASEAN market involving Processing of PO and Non PO invoices, e-invoices, EDI and emergency payment request by using SAP system
• Solve discrepancy for GR&IR related issues; provide assistance for customer service functions by handling critical queries from internal and external parties on top of providing accurate information to country controllers
• Monitor workflow in queue and ensure all the approvals are as per the respective countries legal requirements and internal control standards
• Perform follow-ups to the associated Business Units on the pending invoices
• Review invoices captured for weekly payment run and prepare monthly invoice available for payment listing
• Perform vendor clearing & MTO tools reconciliation on weekly basis
• Post journal vouchers (duty charges)
• Support month end closing activities and work closely with Business Units and other function to ensure all activities is perform as per closing timeline
• Processed invoices and journal entries with efficiency and accuracy, resulting in decreased discrepancies.
• Processing invoices from various locations for payment
• Contacting banks regarding any financial queries
• Processing high-volume invoices
• Handling all telephone inquiries relating to accounts payable issues
• Corresponding with vendors and respond to inquiries
• Documenting all accounts payable transactions
• Compiling management reports and assisting with audits
• Matching, batching and coding invoices
• Completing accounts payable
• Creating historical records by scanning documents
• Maintaining vendor files raising and tracking invoices
• Checking the filing of invoices
• Checking the accuracy of figures and calculations.

O C TO BER 2014 — A PRIL 2016

• Handling generic mail for invoice extracting
• Scan and verify invoices and allocate to the team in daily basis
• Monitor and prepare report on the allocation and balance invoices in work cycle
• Handling escalations escalated by buyers or indexer
• Perform internal adjustment if there are any discrepancies
• Handling all telephone inquiries relating to accounts payable issues
• Handle large volume of invoice posting in daily basis
• Post emergency payment requests.