Over 19 years of experience in Accounts, Finance and Taxation in manufacturing, process, trading and consulting services. Reporting to CEO and directly assist on all strategic and tactical matters related to business function support, budget management, cost benefit analysis, forecasting needs and securing of new funding.
• Work with the CEO on the strategic vision including fostering and cultivating stakeholder relationships as well as assisting in the development and negotiation of contracts.
• Participate in developing new business, specifically: assist the CEO in identifying new funding opportunities, the drafting of prospective programmatic budgets, and determining cost effectiveness of prospective service delivery
• Provide the CEO with an operating budget. Work with the CEO to ensure programmatic success through cost analysis support, and compliance with all contractual and programmatic requirements. This includes: 1) interpreting legislative and programmatic rules and regulations to ensure compliance with all federal, state, local and contractual guidelines, 2) ensuring that all government regulations and requirements are disseminated to appropriate personnel, and 3) monitoring compliance.
•Oversee the management and coordination of all fiscal reporting activities for the organization including: organizational revenue/expense and balance sheet reports, reports to funding agencies, development and monitoring of organizational and contract/grant budgets.
CFO @ Working with PETRONAS Lubricants (India) Pvt Ltd (subsidiary of PETRONAS Malaysia) as “Head – Accounts & Finance” since January 2012 and reporting to C.E.O.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provide strategic direction and responsible for all aspects of Finance and Accounting function of the organization.
• Setting financial controls and strategic direction of the organization.
• Ensure adherence to all statutory compliances as per guidelines of the statutory authorities and legal framework.
• Ensuring appropriate systems and internal controls are implemented and maintained.
• Handling Legal, FEMA and Secretarial matters.
• Ensure timely completion of statutory audit, internal audit, transfer pricing audit, tax audit, Cost audit and VAT audit.
• Business Review and Analysis, Gap Analysis and implementation of corrective majors.
• Liasoning with various Government authorities for statutory compliances.
• Manage processes for financial forecasting, budgeting and reporting of the financials. Oversee the management and coordination of all fiscal reporting activities for the organization.
• Responsible for overseeing and directing the organization's financial goals, objectives, and budgets.
• Preparation of Annual business plans, cash flow projections, forecasts and long term plans.
• Monitor and control accounts receivables.
• Roll out of Limits of Authority
• Receivables Management. From January 2012 to Present (4 years) Mumbai Area, IndiaCorporate Finance Manager @ Senior Corporate Finance Manager & Secretarial from January 2008 to December 2011, reporting to the Group CFO. The Company is listed on the Bombay and National Stock Exchange. Active Member of the senior management team, representing the finance team in management.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Treasury operations including banking, investment, debt issuance, and liquidity management.
- Assist management in the development of the strategic direction for and administration of investment, funding, hedging, and liquidity management strategies.
- Preparation of Annual business plans, cash flow projections, forecasts and long term plans.
- Budget Management
- Conducting financial analysis/reviews of strategic business initiatives such as Ratios, Peer Review Comparison, Share Valuation, Financial Projections, Projection of Funds Requirement, Analysis of Dividend proposals, FFR, Revenue Budget, CAPEX budget and its Payback Period.
- Banks – Co-ordination for finance such as Working Capital, Term Loan, WCDL, Hundi Discounting, CMA, Documentation, Renewals, etc.
- Receivable & Vendor Management
- Assisting in Mergers & Acquisitions proposals by analyzing Financial Due Diligence and Assisted in Merger of Subsidiary Company.
- Monitoring the preparation of accurate financial MIS for CEO and Board of Directors. Providing guidance to all functions for MIS requirements for their specific functions.
- Managing and supporting recruitment, set KRA s for direct reports, monitor overall department KRA s, conduct performance appraisal
- SEBI, RBI & ROC compliances of group Co’s, Preparation of Agenda, Minutes of Board meeting & Annual Report.
- Statutory compliances management.
- Analysis of Internal Audit Report and reporting to the management.
- Co-ordination with ERP Vendor for implementation of ERP and Business Intelligence. ABC Costing, their analysis and variance calculation, CAS 4 Certificates, Assisting in Cost Audits etc.. From January 2008 to January 2012 (4 years 1 month) Mumbai Area, India
Master's Degree, Business Finance @ The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India From 2011 to 2012 Master's Degree, Philosophy @ Alagappa University From 2010 to 2012 Bachelor's Degree, Law @ University of Mumbai From 2005 to 2008 Company Secretary @ Institute of Company Secretaries of India From 2003 to 2005 Master's Degree, Commerce @ University of Mumbai From 2002 to 2005 Chartered Accountant @ The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India From 1993 to 1996 Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounts @ MVLU College From 1991 to 1994 SSC @ St Francis High School From 1976 to 1991 Patrick Meinrad is skilled in: Auditing, Internal Audit, Corporate Finance, Financial Audits, Accounting, Financial Reporting, Forecasting, Working Capital Management, Financial Analysis, Managerial Finance, Financial Modeling, Internal Controls, IFRS, Strategic Financial Planning, Treasury Management