Ashwin Suresh Menon

Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable :

• Recording and Processing supplier invoices on Accounting System SAGE 50 (Peachtree).
• Recording VAT Receivable Amounts from Supplier Invoices and Passing Journal Entry to Offset VAT Payable with VAT Receivable
• Preparation of VAT Refund Summary for VAT Reimbursements from FTA.
• Employee Expense Claims - Recording & Payment
• Overtime / Site Allowance - Monthly Report Generation, Allocation to respective Jobs & Payment to Employees
• Supplier Payments - Creation of Payment Vouchers & Payment Posting to Respective Bank Portals.
• Assistance in Annual ICV Certification - Preparation of Purchases / Expenses Sheet, Obtaining Vendor ICV Certificates, Assets Summary Preparation / Vendor Invoice Samples Submission to Boost overall ICV Scores.
• Petty Cash Maintenance - Payments & Cash Settlements to Petty Cash.
• Vendor Invoice Preparation.
• Follow up & Retrieval of Payments from Clients
• Preparation of Letter of Credit Invoices / LC Bank Documents - LC Discounting with Bank / Performance Bank Guarantee Documents.
• Preparation of Trial Balance for Monthly Financial Reporting & Reconciliation of Trial Balance Ledgers.
• Generation of Profit / Loss Report for Month End Closing.
• Maintenance of Asset Costs in-line with Annual Capex Limits, Transfer of Asset Cost to Work In Progress and Reversal from Work in Progress As per completion of Asset.
• Recording of Cost Accruals and Cost Accrual Reversals from Job Ledgers.
• Monthly Bank Reconciliation & Preparation of Bank Reconciliation Statements.

• Worked under the Supervision of the Finance Manager (Mr.Cesar Roumieh) & Guidance of Daw Myint MO WIN, ) for Validation & Cost Control procedures in Total Exploration and Production UAE & Guidance of Yasmine DJAZMATI (Senior Cost Controller) for Total E&P, Unconventional GAS
• Directly Involved in the Validation/Regularisation of Invoices on SAP for TEP UAE & TUGs
• Petty Cash/Expense Claims/Administration forms Validation & Cost Monitoring
• Preparation of Accruals and Accrual Reversals
• RFS Creation & Synthesis Assistance on STAR CRYSTAL (SAP)
• Completed journal entries, reconciliations and account analysis to prepare quarterly financial documents and general account management

• Worked under the supervision of the Project Manager (Mr.Uday Saul) of Reliance Way Engineering, Abu Dhabi
• Assisted in the preparation Cost Evaluations Reports and In-Country Value Certification (ICV)
• Creating presentations for Business Development
• Identified opportunities and analyzed marketplace key performance indicators to diversify campaigns, expand visibility, and improve performance
• Calculated correct costs for project-specific goods and services by gathering information from team members, sub-contractors and vendors

• Worked directly under the leadership and guidance of the Regional Finance director MENA region (Mr. Andreas Pretorius)
• Assisted in the preparation of Cost Valuation Reports (CVR), Trial Balance, P&L Accounts & Balance sheet
• Directly responsible for creation of Bank reconciliation statements
• Data Entry to Sage Line100 Accounting Software
• Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
• Involved with the Implementation of various company policies and accounting standards inline with the Acquiring company Altrad.