Vijay Raghavendar

1\Identifying and creating new sale prospects while continuing to retain existing customers with excellent after sales service.
2\Contact potential clients to assess their individual needs and demonstrate ways to meet or exceed expectations.
3\Work with Indian C&F agents & Indian exporters in ensuring their cargo is made available at the port on a timely basis and ensuring the same is loaded on the vessels without any complications.
4\Recruiting and training the sales staff personnel to perform effectively and efficiently.
5\Supervising, motivating and monitoring team's performance to ensure team & individual targets are appropriately met.
6\Determining and allocating new avenues for sales personnel to identifying new customers.
7\Ensuring all the shipping documents are processed accurately and same is provided to the appropriate parties.
8\Designed the various reports for clients, management & principle and ensuring necessary reports are sent to them on the timely manner.

Role :- Business Controls Lead - Chennai, India; Wroclaw,Poland; Guangzhou, China.

1\Leading the Business Controls (Financial, Data Privacy, Contractual Controls) activities for several clients coming under the preview of HP's Chennai & Wroclaw business centers.
2\Responsible for understanding the Business Control requirements for the processes outsourced to HP.
Reviewing and analyzing the client's SOX requirements and aligning them with HP's business control requirements.
3\Planning and executing periodic Business Controls self-assessment audits for the outsourced processes and ensuring compliance.
4\Conducting periodic evaluation to ensure that the outsourced processes adhere to the COSO framework.
5\Streamlining the Business Controls activities to ensure maximum efficiency.
6\Handling Audit Program management for client's internal and external audits based on contractual agreements.

Role :- SAS 70 & Data Privacy Lead - Dalian, China

1\Planning and execution of periodic SAS 70 self assessment audits to evaluate the controls and compliance at the Dalian Center and preparing the center for external audits.
2\Ensuring the IT, HR, Physical Security, Contractual, Data Privacy, Data Confidentiality, Asset governance, network controls are operating effectively.
3\Understanding the business and operations needs; and implementing controls accordingly.
4\Dealing and communicating with the higher management for approval of cost involved in implementation of controls.
5\Understanding the SAS 70 & Data Privacy requirements of existing and new clients, and ensuring contractual compliance is met.

Role :- Recovery Audit Lead.

1\Continued the roles of recovery audit analyst with additional managerial responsibilities.
2\Creating and implementing process specific training plans for new employees in Chennai.
3\Led and successfully completed several projects in lines of duplicate analysis, account reconciliations, unclaimed property & debit balance recoveries.
4\Ensuring prompt reporting and assisting manager in effective team management.
5\Creating an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking and cohesive team effort.
6\Provide the team with vision of the projects objectives - motivating and inspiring the team to achieve the same.
7\Ensuring deliverables are prepared and met effectively and efficiently as per project requirements, cost and schedule.
8\Provide status of team's activities/performance against the program plan or schedule and keep the project manager informed of task accomplishments and issues.
9\Serve as a focal point to communicate and resolve issues/escalations and provide guidance to team based on management's direction.

Role :- Inventory Controls & Compliance lead – Shenzhen, China.

1\Monitoring the supplies, raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods by various accounting techniques and ensuring compliance with the internal controls designed for raw material, work-in-progress and finished goods.
2\Scrutiny of detailed stock records showing receipts and issuance, inventory ledger showing quantities and dollars; and ensuring compliance with written policies regarding purchasing, receiving, inspection and handling.
3\Scheduling periodic inventory counts and analyzing the internal cycle counts to verify the inventory amounts per books physically exist at the production facilities.

Recovery Audit Analyst

1\Research into financial transactions involving HP's worldwide suppliers leading to recoveries of duplicate payments and overdue credits.
2\Provided and implemented many process improvements for operations involved in procurement, payments and reconciliations worldwide, leading to increased cost saving to the company
3\Manage accounting transactions, provide financial consultancy and training; and ensure compliance with legal, tax and internal audit requirements.
4\Initiated and performed through scrutiny of books, recoveries resulting in savings of millions of dollars.