Arun Davis is a chartered accountant with over 7 years of experience in finance and accounting roles across various industries. He has expertise in accounting, financial reporting, taxation, and process improvement. Currently he is working as the Manager - Finance & Accounts at Zafin Software of Excellence Ltd. in Trivandrum, India where he leads a team of 6-8 people. Prior to this, he has held finance roles at Innovative Foods Ltd., Idea Cellular Ltd., Voltas India Ltd. in Qatar, and Saint Gobain Glass India Ltd. He is skilled in ERP systems like SAP, Oracle, Tally, and Dynamics NAV.

1. ARUN DAVIS
Mobile: +91-9544767401 / 9847000960
E-Mail: caarundavis81@gmail.com
Managerial Level Assignments: Accounts & Finance
PROFILE SUMMARY
• A results driven, self-motivated and resourceful chartered accountant with a proven ability to provide key financial data,
support and reporting to assist in key business decisions with 7 years of experience in Manufacturing, Construction, Telecom,
FMCG and IT domain.
• Ability to provide effective financial leadership to finance team, to enable strategic foresight into the business and
also provide knowledgeable and accurate information to senior department.
• Area of expertise include
- Accounting - Treasury Management - Process Design & Internal Control
- Monthly Book closure & reporting - Costing & variance analysis - MIS Reporting.
- Budgeting & Budgetary Control - Taxation Inc. Transfer prizing - Auditing
- Working Capital Management
• Adept at management and review of Balance sheet, P&L, Cash flow and Ratios.
• Possesses sound knowledge in IFRS and I-GAAP and exposed to multinational & multicurrency
consolidation and accounting issues. (Canada, UK, Malaysia, Dubai, USA, South Africa & Germany).
• Liasioning with banks over sourcing of funds, letter of credit facility, availing forward cover Etc.
• Keen interest and understanding in standard costing, standard cost system, variance analysis and
reporting.
• Experience in managing the end to end project management including initial profitability analysis,
Documentation, Budgeting, monitoring the monthly profitability, managing the cash flows, recognition
of revenue according to % of completion Etc.
• Expert in designing financial templates to suit various MIS and analytical reports.
• Gathered exposure to managing the transfer pricing and other operational taxation including income tax and service tax of India
, Canada and Malaysia
• Experienced in heading entire Accounts & Finance managing a team of 6-8 people and reporting to CEO/CFO
• Excellent understanding of formulating budgets, preparing profit & loss projections to identify opportunities and risks.
• Gathered exposure to all Big Four Audits- KPMG, Delloite & PwC.
• Possess strong communication, interpersonal, presentation & negotiation skills.
ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since Sep’14: Zafin Software of Excellence Ltd., Trivandrum as Manager – Finance & Accounts
Oct’13-Sep’14: Innovative Foods Ltd., Cochin as Manager - Finance
Dec’10-Oct’13: Idea Cellular Ltd., Cochin as Assistant Manager - Finance
Jan’10-Sep’10: Voltas India Ltd., Qatar as Finance / Accounts Executive
May’08-Aug’09: Saint Gobain Glass India Ltd., Chennai as Team Member - Finance

2. Key Deliverables & Highlights.
At Zafin Software of Excellence Ltd
• Distinction of registering key changes in the procedure / policy part such as acceleration of monthly closing brought up the idea
of outsourcing of global payroll, changes in accounting policies to suit the entities requirement, introduction of various MIS
reports, etc.
• Recommended significant ideas / initiatives for increasing the reported revenue by 500,000 USD.
• Identified 1.5 MN USD revenue overstatements, corrected & taken steps to plug the gap.
• Modified the allocation methodology for arriving cost plus Transfer Price to optimize tax by INR 10 Lakhs.
• Able to mitigate the accounting risk of reporting 700,000 USD loss on adverse Forex rate movement on inters company loans in
the light of IFRS provisions.
• Suggested the analysis on rate variance (Budgeted vs. Actual) for the monthly project profitability in addition to effort variance.
• Recommended logical changes in sales commission calculation with respect to Forex rate considered for calculation,
inclusion/exclusion of certain items for calculation and thereby limiting entities’ exposure to Forex and profitability risk.
• Designing and introduction of various templates for Back log revenue, Revenue flash, cash flow projection, Forex Analysis,
Sales commission calculation, Sales force reporting and monthly variance analysis.
• Started Key Performance indicator reporting on variance performance measures such as Travel cost per
department/Employee/Region, Salary cost per headcount/department/region etc.
• Successful completion of global audit under IFRS.
• Essayed a key role as a part of ERP implementation –Tally & Quick Books to Dynamics NAV.
• Pivotal role as a part of due diligence audit of private equity investment from Kayne Capital.
• Drafted key accounting policies and procedures for revenue recognition & Plant, property & Equipment Etc.
• Gained knowledge in various complex accounting issues such as compound financial instrument, employee stock option plan
etc.
• Gathered exposure to taxation of Canada, Malaysia and UK.
At Innovative Foods Ltd
• Providing financial and strategic support to the business.
• Production and Presentation of monthly results, budget variances and ad-hoc analysis.
• Involved in Business Planning, P&L, Balance Sheet and cash flows.
• Reviewing the new projects involving capital outlay.
• Overseeing the entire plant accounting in the areas of stock in ,Stock out ,stock transfer, consumption, wastage etc and
bringing Improvements in control aspects.
• Designed the procedure & template to identify the product wise margin to enable comparison with actual financial margin &
budgeted margin.
• Introduced a number of control measures in the form of Stock Quantity reconciliation, Stock valuation checking template etc.

3. • Change in stock valuation without changing the policy for increasing the stock valuation by 6.5 MN and consequently the
margin.
• Identified the lacunas in Overhead allocation & absorption to improve the stock valuation and there by profitability by 2.5 MN
• Accelerated the month end closure by 5-6 days by designing the easy formula driven financial statement template.
• Introduced the cash flow projection to smoothen the fund disbursement.
At Idea Cellular Ltd
• Finalisation of accounts, Preparation of financial statements.
• Monthly closure of books.
• Statutory Audit.
• Prepaid revenue recognition & VAS.
• Preparation & reporting of variance between actual (Month on month) and with budget for revenue, Infra cost, COCA&COSA.
• Reporting of Normalised revenue & Cost for the month.
• Performing key reconciliations like IN-General Ledger Reconciliation & BSCS reconciliation.
At Voltas India Ltd, Qatar
• Independent handling of accounts at project site.
• Involved in SAP Implementation.
• Preparation of C&P statement.
• Project costing, Variance Analysis and MIS reporting.
At Saint Gobain Glass India Ltd
• Monthly Finalization of accounts (Preparation of income statements and Balance sheet) under IFRS.
• Statutory audit under I-GAAP & IFRS.
• Controlling & costing for a captive plant.
EDUCATION
2008 Chartered Accountancy from ICAI.
2002 B.Com. From MG University, Kottayam
IT SKILLS
• SAP - MM, FI and SD Modules
• Oracle
• Tally
• MS Dynamics NAV
• Quick Books
• MS Word and Excel

4. CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITY
• Represented Kerala State Cricket Team in various junior categories
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth : 7th
May 1981
Languages Known : English, Hindi, and Malayalam & Tamil
Address : Veluthedathu Parambil (H), Teekoy P.O., Kottayam, Kerala -686580