Daily Controls: Cash/Fund Flow - Managing the daily cash/fund flow. Allocating the cash/funds as per the needs to ensure smooth operations.
Working Capital Management - Determining working capital needs, proper utilization & arranging the Working Capital funds. Acting as a treasury in charge to arrange the funds on timely basis.
Overseas/Local Payments – To arrange payments to the supplier locally/internationally by determining various methods of payments such as LC, Trust Receipt & DA/DP Basis. Following up banks to get their confirmation on payment transfer.
Team Leader – Heading accounts & admin team of 7 people. Assisting & mentoring the performance of the team. Co-ordinating with sales team to provide necessary assistance from time to time.
Liaison Officer: To act as a liaison officer of the company with:
Banks/Financial Institutions - To sort out/redress queries arising from banks/financial institutions. To meet their requirements by providing relevant data, reports & arranging personal meetings Insurance company - Providing insurance cover to stock, property, vehicles & personnel for the company. Suppliers - Arranging payments, co-ordination of material, shipping & delivery Shipping Agents - Arranging necessary documents for clearance, troubleshooting custom related problems & ensuring timely arrival of shipments
Decisional: Assistance to management - Assisting the management for expansion plans, legal, financial, operational related issues.
Feasibility Study - Carrying out feasibility study for proposed projects on profitability grounds.
Payment projections - Sketching out payment projections on weekly basis to provide proper view to the purchase department to plan their procurement.
Hedging – Keeping a proper track of currencies. Hedging the currency at proper leverage point, as per costing. Forecasting the future needs of the currency.
FX Derivatives – Operational knowledge of derivative products available in the market for investment.
Annual: Finalization of Accounts: Designing Profit & Loss statement, balance sheet & ratio analysis.
Audit: Conducting Half Year & Annual Audit for the parent company as well as its associated concerns.
Stock Take: Carrying out/Arranging half year & annual stock takes.
Legal: Meeting the legal requirements of the stakeholders of the company, verifying the documentation from banks & checking the legal validations from various angles
Assistance in Purchases: Jointly managing the purchase segment, budgeting & forecasting the requirements on weekly, monthly & quarterly basis. Planning and implementation of devices at the distributor and vendor level. Ensuring the stocks planned are made available on time & at the right price. Post purchases to monitor the pricing & stock levels of products with adequate insights of the market conditions
Development of ANC Brand: Personally, monitoring the brand ANC, designing, research, analysis, planning & implementation to ensure the right product is sourced. Visiting various suppliers based in China to monitor and develop customized products.
Sales & Research for Special Regions: Vietnam, Cambodia, S Korea & Hong Kong being the 4 regions marked for sales & research development of specific brands and products.
Extras: (HR/IT/Marketing) IT - Identifying the changes required to the ERP based software - Focus RT & altering it to suit the needs HR - Assisting my colleague to conduct interviews for identifying the right seat for the right person. Marketing Projects: Designing marketing products as per discussions with Marketing team, getting the plan implemented & follow ups. These included designing of Exhibition Stands at various shows like Gitex - Dubai, Paperworld Germany & Asia Expo - China along with marketing materials such as flyers, broachers & gifts.
A part time responsibility//internship was taken to gain knowledge of practically handling things during the course I was pursuing Bachelor of Management Studies.
I was shouldered the following responsibilities:
a) Filing
b) Data Entry
c) Maintenance of proper data
d) Assisting the senior in the project of shifting the clients work base from Manual to Computers
Operational expertise of ERP based software Focus softnet
Managing, altering, designing & crystallization of reports to suit the needs of proper operational requirements.