1. Karthika Ravindran
Phone : +919884232652
Email: karthika.ravikrishna@gmail.com
Finance and Accounting ProfessionalFinance and Accounting Professional
PROFILEPROFILE
• Professional with 2.5 years of finance and accounting experience. Proven expertise in streamlining the
Invoice Approval Process (Cost Control) for more than 7 countries. Experience in end to end process for
Cost Control in shipping industry and in Accounts Payable in Hospitality industry
• Pursuing CA final from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
CORE COMPETENCIES:CORE COMPETENCIES:
Cost Control (Invoice Approval process) • Key interest and strength is understanding of Finance and
Accounting Process in Shipping and Hospitality• Internal Reporting to Process Owners and stakeholders•
•Audits/compliances/Risk and Controls• Transition management onshore/remote• Process Improvement •
Standard operating Procedure• Process Flow & Process Map Documentation • Process Management & Delivery
• Training and Management • Service Level Agreement Management • Emails • Template Designs for
reporting• People Committee
Achievements:Achievements:
• Successful migration of Lost Container Activity (logistics)(onsite) from HO in Marseille ,France to
Shared Service Centre , Chennai, India and stabilizing the same with 2 FTE’s in two months.
• Successful migration of Pool Invoicing Activity from HO in Marseille to Chennai (remote) and
stabilizing the same with 2 FTE’s in a month. The smooth transition was much appreciated being the
first in department.
• Management of the most sensitive agency, Vietnam and Cambodia for over a year wherein the
escalations were bought down to almost zero.
• Completed Green Belt training and also acted as Process Expert in Green Belt Project for reducing
processing time .
• Prepared FMEA (Failure mode effect analysis) for the team which controls the risk in the process.
• Prepared Root cause Analysis for the process to control the errors.
• Part of documentation team for preparing SOP, User guides and Operational manual which are
country specific.
• End to end management of AP domain including preopening and go live period for Park Hyatt Chennai
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & DEVELOPMENTPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & DEVELOPMENT
CMA CGM SHARED SERVICE CENTRE, CHENNAI Nov 2013 – Till Date
ProcessProcess Supervisor – Cost Control (Invoice Approval process), Finance & AccountingSupervisor – Cost Control (Invoice Approval process), Finance & Accounting
Entrusted with the Following key accountabilities:
• To manage the compliance functions and assist the Senior Manager with administrative tasks.
• Coaching and preparing of new and existing workers, offering of information and tips to quick
associates.
• Responsible for extracting, allocating the work and monitoring a smooth flow of the 15 FTE process in
Chennai location along with generating report and escalating cases to higher authorities.

2. • Actively involved in team management and successfully handling team briefing thereby ensuring
proper flow of information among the team members.
• Responsible for monitoring team performance through timely feedbacks, thereby ensuring overall
team productivity and quality.
• Responsible to all enquiries, whether got by phone, in composing, by email or made in individual
productively, professionally and inside any detailed timescales.
• Reviewing and monitoring the internal procedures and practices to provide compliance with group
and regulatory requirements.
• Manage the escalation of complaints raised by internal and external customers and provide accurate
and explicit analysis of the same.
• Responsible for Weekly, Monthly reporting for stakeholders.
• CAPA Analysis (Corrective and Preventive Analysis) in case of any quality errors reported.
PARK HYATT CHENNAI Aug 2012 to Feb 2013
Accounts Payable - Accountant
Entrusted with the Following key accountabilities
• Booking all trade and corporate invoices
• Transferring entries to GL post reconciliation.
• Preparing ageing reports of supplier and facilitating timely payments.
• Preparing weekly and monthly reports.
• Responsible in handling different type of inquiries such as Missing payments, Duplicate payments, late
payments etc
MP GOPALAKRISHNAN AND COMPANY Sep 2008-Sep 2011
Audit AssistantAudit Assistant
• Entrusted with the Following key accountabilities
• Preparation, finalization and filing of Income tax returns for Non Corporate and corporate assesses.
• Conducting stock audit for clients.
• Vouching of bills and other documents
• Assisting the clients in Accounting
• Assisting the team manager in internal audits.
• Preparation of wealth tax computations
• Consultancy services in Tax compliance matters
• Branch Audit for Indian Overseas Bank.
• Internal audit for Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd and KR group from the hotel industry.
• Also involved in reviewing the accounting system and designing an internal control system for finance
and accounts department
• Checking the compliance of accounting standards and provisions of the Companies Act.

3. EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALSEDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
PE II – Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
2008, Chennai
MBA (Finance)
2010-2012 University of Madras.
B.Com
2004-2007, University of Calicut
COMPUTER PROFICIENCY
MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Oracle
Date of Birth: 29th
September, 1986
Language Proficiency: English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil
Marital Status: Married.
References: Available on Request