1. RAHUL K. SINGH, CPA &CA
42N Brooksedge Circle, The woodlands, Texas-77382
Phone Number-832-315-8670
EXPERIENCE
Tetra Technologies Inc.; Corporate Office, The Woodlands, TX. Jun 2010 – Present
Controller –Latin America and Eastern Hemisphere support (Apr 2014 – Present)
• Working with the US team to support local accounting and finance for the Eastern Hemisphere (EH) and Latin
America (LAM) region.
• Detailed monthly income statement variance analysis for EH and LAM countries and biweekly update on income
statement against forecast to upper management.
• Breakeven cost analysis for all the business to understand the profitability floor and accordingly guide the
operations either to reduce the cost or increase pricing.
• Hedge foreign exchange currency analysis especially in countries like Argentina which are extremely volatile. Since
Argentina has an issue with cash repatriation in order to avoid big FX losses on short term intercompany payable we
converted 70% of the payable to a long term debt which has helped in reduction of substantial foreign exchange
losses.
• Worked with the EH and LAM team in determining the functional currency and accordingly help them to
understand the temporal method of accounting where all the translation gain or losses on monetary local currency is
recorded in income statement whereas when it functional local currency the translation gain or loss are accounted
for in currency translation adjustment account.(CTA)
• Worked with Tax department to ensure that all the intercompany transactions are arm’s length to avoid transfer
pricing issue and also worked with legal to appropriately document all the intercompany relationship.
• Worked with operations on cost control initiatives such as repairs and maintenance cost on idle assets which are
deferred till the time they start generating the revenue.
• Review the detailed balance sheet reconciliations for EH and LAM countries on monthly basis.
• Worked with legal to ensure the compliance with FCPA by following the annual compliance certification process
with the agents who are dealing with the government entities
• Worked on revenue recognition criteria relating to direct sales of the product which involves different Inco terms
and transfer of title.
• Designed the process with local team to ensure that we are SOX Compliance such as Purchase to pay process and
Order to cash which has considerably helped in improving our DSO.
• Helping and guiding treasury for the cash management in international locations. Working with the EH and LAM
team to explain the mode of transfer either through intercompany payment or dividend declaration.
• Worked with Operations to develop a business plan and forecast process with the ongoing basis.
• Provide Technical accounting supports on the complex transactions such as intercompany transactions between
various countries.
• Involved in preparing the business case for Large bid projects up to $500MM of revenue.
• Travel to various locations to ensure business processes are working as designed.
Business process Manager (Jun 2011 – Mar 2014)
• Led the ERP system project implementation and deployment for Eastern Hemisphere and Latin America region.
The countries involved were Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UK, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
• Liaison with operations and IT team to achieve the deliverables in the areas of financial reporting
• Worked with the local accounting team in EH and LAM region on the process mapping to align to Tetra’s policies
and procedures.
• Worked on Merger and Acquisition accounting, calculation of Purchase price which includes valuation of Fixed
asset to Fair value, Computation of identified Intangibles like Customer relations, Patent, Non-compete etc. and
Earn out calculation.
2. • Worked on preparing the acquisition economic justification for Board of director’s approval.
3. • Led the project on pricing for US business which involved creating a standard cost and revenue for each service line
item to meet the expectation of Job profitability reporting.
Finance & Admin Manager Middle East Region (Jun 2010 – Jun 2011)
• Detailed monthly income statement variance analysis for Middle East region and biweekly update on income
statement against forecast to upper management.
• Breakeven cost analysis for all the business to understand the profitability floor and accordingly guide the
operations either to reduce the cost or increase pricing.
• Worked on processes to improve the internal control in particular Petty cash, P2P and order to cash
• Worked with the operations to develop a monthly forecast and yearly budgeting process.
• Cost control measures by consolidating the vendors spend
• Ensured timely financial month end close by maintaining a monthly check list
• Reviewed monthly balance sheet reconciliation for Middle East countries.
• Worked with the Middle East team to reduce the DSO for Middle East countries.
• Successfully completed both Internal and external audit for the region.
Halliburton Offshore Services Inc., Mumbai, India Jun 2008 – May 2010
Accounting Lead
• Handled Accounts payable team to ensure that all the local and foreign Payments are done as per local GAAP.
• Met with vendors to improve the invoicing system to reduce the cost & timely processing of invoices.
• Helped the Team in determining the applicability of Tax Deducted at Source (Withholding Tax).
• Ensured that withholding tax and service tax payment is made on time and credit is utilized as per the Law.
• Reviewed contracts from the vendors to check the financial implication from F&A standpoint of view.
• Reviewed the month end process to ensure general Ledger are updated correctly.
• Prepared the financial statement as per the requirement of the law.
• Provided Variance analysis report along with the commentary to upper level management.
• Worked on Hyperion and ESS Base Report for Management reporting.
• Prepared SEC Report for the Joint venture in India.
• Compliance with tax and internal controls.
• Reviewed the TEST Plan and Quarterly RCTS questionnaire to ensure that all the Functions are SOX compliance.
• Reviewed the tenders / contract and ensured that financial clauses meet with the Company policies and practices
• Follow up with customer and timely collection to achieve monthly collection target to reduce our DSO.
• Ensured that all the Policies pertaining to revenue is being adhered to in particular the revenue recognition policy.
EDUCATION
Bachelor in Commerce from Mumbai, India, Jun 2001
Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered accountants of India, Nov 2007
Certified Public Accountant, May 2016
Green card holder eligible to work in USA
SKILLS
ERP Packages (SAP and E1 (Oracle based package) and BPC & SRC reporting and Forecasting tool.
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
• Awarded MVP (Maximizing Value Added Performance) in Nov 2008 for implementing the withholding tax and
service tax in SAP.
• Awarded MVP (Maximizing Value Added Performance) in May 2009 for successful implementation of Real estate
module in SAP.