Rajasekaran

A result-oriented Professional with 17+ years of experience in handling Finance domain which includes overseas employment exposures in USA & Gulf. B. Com /MBA/CA/CS-Professional under regulatory bodies ICAI/ICSI. Hands full of experience in Manufacturing, Engineering and Service sectors.

Experience in handling technical software's like CCH Engagement, Suralink, Field guide, QuickBooks, Sage, Intact, Bill.com, CaseWare, Xero, Oracle, SAP R/3 Financial, and Tally ERP. Possess good technical knowledge and absorbing capabilities with proven abilities in exceeding business targets consistently across the assignments.

Assistant Finance Controller - CIPL - Cosentus group USA - USA

(2025-09)

Client: Cosentus USA

• Performed bank reconciliations, GL account reconciliations, and cash forecasting.
• Prepared and posted recurring and general journal entries for all accounts and fixed asset ledgers.
• Collaborated with AR/GL/AP teams to ensure timely posting and review of corrections in ledgers.
• Supported the monthly close process, including US GAAP, SOX, and audit requirements.
• Provided audit support to the audit team for year-end financial sign-off.
• Supported AP invoicing for the AP team using software such as Bill.com and Sage, based on availability.
• Prepared prepayments and fixed asset schedules, and performed monthly reconciliations and reviews.
• Identified key areas for improvement in cash applications, reconciliations, and accounting processes.
• Conducted analytical reviews of group companies' P&L and balance sheet items for management discussion and review.

Senior Supervisor - Vitae International Accounting Services

(2018-09 - 2025-06)

Client: Schneider Downs CPA -USA –Risk Audit - {4 Years}. Vitae International is a global staffing service provider meeting the business needs of accounting, tax, risk advisory and pension firms worldwide.

• Worked as part of the engagement team focusing on compliance audit advisory projects & execution of internal audit engagements. Special projects include process audits and SOX lite testing.
• Designed various risk rating and risk assessment templates for senior risk management executives on a wide range of various business operations. And assisted in preparation of various automated executive excels dashboards to aggregate the findings of risk & audit results.
• Test of Control, Risk Rating, Risk analyzation and other evaluations as per risk audit plan.
• Performed Risk based audit testing in various domains, which includes in AP, inventory, purchases, payroll, fuel inventory, sales, and treasury units.
• Performed and documented various exceptions, audit procedures over complex areas of audit.
• Assisted in creating risk-based audit reports for management review with various risk rating results and charts.

Senior Consultant - Vitae International Accounting Services

(2018-09 - 2025-06)

Client: Buzzacott Corporate Chartered accountants-UK. Finance/Accounts role

• End to end review financial accounting on General ledger, Accounts payable, receivables, asset & review of Preparation of monthly or quarterly financial statements for UK leading business clients.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance financial processes to align with business growth and changing market conditions. Suggesting in strengthening internal controls to mitigate risks.
• Review of statutory accounts & financial statements, correction of clients' accounts & passing adjusting journals & ETB/AWP updating for various business clients.
• Handled various financial software's like Quick Books, Intaact, Sage, Xero, Caseware, Bill.com.
• Managing overall client requirements along with the team members' workflow process.

Manager Finance - Business Process Outsourcing (BPO+) WLL Doha Qatar - Doha, Qatar

(2015-11 - 2018-06)

Visa: Q Day Group Company. BPO+ group Head quartered in Qatar, a 100 million turn over company engaged around 10 years in transforming the IT/BPO services in GCC. Core solutions include Software development, Call centers, business outsourcing, Customer Engagement service, Human Capital Outsourcings, Social Media Marketing, Online ticketing, IT development & Digital media business. (Group companies: Qatar Day co. /Q-Tickets co (Dubai /Bahrain / Oman) & 360 Nautica IT services in India/Singapore location).

• General ledger, Accounts payable, receivables end-to-end accounting & review, Preparation of monthly financial statements and management reports with required schedules, details analysis and other supporting as required. Monthly profit and loss preparation for all group companies & group consolidation of financial statements and evaluation of cash profits.
• Budgeting – Quarterly half yearly, yearly transactions. Review/processing cash bank vendor /other internal payments & GAP analysis.
• Monthly WPS payroll upload-WPs processing - Full and final settlements review & uploads.
• Responsible for the timely completion of month end and year end closing activities.
• Responsible for timely preparation and submission of tax returns and other financial statutory returns.
• Finalization of Group Company accounts. Coordination with bankers on bill discounting & monthly fund raising process/ financing.
• Intercompany reconciliations /taxation /income tax for India, Qatar and Dubai regions.
• Review and accounting of journals, sales, expense& banking transactions.
• Asset management in diversified locations: Depreciation calculation value of hardware/software assets and the proper valuation based on current market value.
• Weekly management accounts and planning reports updates.
• Monthly Finalization of general ledger and consolidated financial statements.
• Cost control support – negotiating fees and charges Coordination with bankers on new facility and existing renewal of factoring limits and Team Management.

Financial Analyst/Audit - Mold Masters Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Coimbatore - Coimbatore

(2014-09 - 2015-11)

Merged with Milacron USA. Milacron manufactures all-electric, servo and hydraulic plastic injection molding machines, extrusion molding machines and auxiliary equipment. Supported by 4,100 employees in 100 countries worldwide.

• Review of financial transactions in General Ledger.
• Review of accounting activities AP /AR/GL/Inventory.
• Preparation of weekly Management reports to CFO on cash flow forecasts & weekly business orders.
• Verification of petty cash expenses. Review of local credit purchase, consignment purchase and their postings in Oracle.
• Preparation of Financial statements in Hyperion Financial Management, with required schedules, details analysis and other supporting's as required by the US auditors.
• Review of Ageing of credit memo/Down payment/Progress payments. Cost roll based on requirements & Fixed assets Management.
• Analysis – include cost center wise /segmental revenue/cost control.
• Review of month end closure on General Ledger, inventory related activities and includes team management.
• Engaged in an on-site finance transition project for Milacron Plastics Manufacturing Corporate Group in Ohio, USA, for more than six months.

Risk Consultant - Haribhakthi & Co., Chartered Accountants. Coimbatore - Coimbatore

(2013-12 - 2014-09)

BDO International -India. Haribhakthi & co., chartered Accountants headquartered in Mumbai, renamed as DHL and tied with BDO International is one of the Largest Accounting bodies associated with 11 Branches and 1200 Employees in and around India. The Firm specializes in Risk and Advisory Services, Audit and Assurance services, financial services and Global Shared Services. Risk and Advisory/ Audit Services.

Clients: Pricol Limited (Industry: Engineering/Manufacturing), Rakindo Developers (Industry: Construction), Bharath Petroleum Corp (Industry: Oil/gas).

• Evaluating internal control systems / procedures, preparing audit reports with a view to highlighting control gaps, weaknesses through process walkthrough.
• Test of Controls, Risk Assesement, Rating and other evaluations as per audit plans.
• Limited review/accounts Finalization for public Ltd Companies.
• Financials (AP/AR/GL), Stock verification, fixed assets review.
• Conduct operational, financial and compliance and policies reviews in accordance with audit procedural plans.
• Analyzation in SAP R/3, on accounts posting controls over financial and financial impact if any.
• Ledger review, GR/IR analysis, Stock valuation Methods. Giving recommendations on internal control and process improvement.
• Review of related party transactions 301 compliance register and others.
• Team management, regular reporting of workflow to the managers & directors.

Senior Executive - Senthil Rajagopal &Co., Chartered Accountants. Coimbatore - Coimbatore

(2006-06 - 2012-05)

Cognito Consultants & Services India P Ltd. Chartered Accountants firm (Coimbatore/Bangalore/Pune). The Firm specializes in Business process and control and renders Business Advisory Services, Taxation, Accounting and Business support services, Compliance Services and Audit Services. Audit Services role.

• Oversees audit planning, coordinate the various planning phases of an engagement.
• Carry out risk assessments across the company in finance and operational areas.
• Test of Control, Risk Rating, Risk analyzation and other evaluations as per audit plan.
• Preparation of Financials, P/l, balance sheet, schedules, Notes to accounts and statutory obligations, Analytics on financials etc.
• Identify fraud through GL & transaction support through review processes.
• Report Preparation, review with the engagement partners & senior management.
• SAP FI Support and accounting management for the clients.

B.COM. - Commerce - Bharathidasan University (2003 - 2006)

XII - State Board-Tamil Nadu (2002 - 2003)

X - Matriculation Board-Tamil Nadu (2001 - 2002)

CA P.E.II Inter Certified - Chartered Accountancy - ICAI (2009 - 2009)

CS Intermediate Certified - Company Secretaryship - ICSI (2011 - 2011)

MBA - Finance - NIBM (2012 - 2014)