Krishnil Singh
Auckland
Summary
Talented Partner with fourteen years of industry experience. Highly skilled at handling all types of issues successfully. Known for effective problem-solving and goal-oriented planning.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Finance Partner
Entelar Group
01.2023 - Current
- Partner with the business by providing effective financial management, insights and professional advice to functional leaders and business teams
- Ensure revenue is maximised, and expenditure provides best value for money to deliver agreed outcomes
- Budgets are managed within agreed parameters and organisational policies
- Provide accurate, timely, commercially insightful financial governance and advice
- Assist in the identification of risks and opportunities for programmes and projects
- Support appropriate allocation of resources, understanding of performance, identification of risks and opportunities and identification of mitigants and actions to deliver agreed outcomes
- Liaise with the broader financial community across Entelar Group and third parties to ensure the organization meets its financial regulatory obligations and delivers value-adding services to their customers
- Pro-actively review elements and trends of the business unit supported and put forward recommendations for improvement, profit enhancement, performance optimisation
- Identify new and more insightful ways of communicating analytical outcomes to relevant stakeholders
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand their plans and needs
- Evaluation of financial performance by comparing and analysing actual results with budgets and forecasts
- Support financial reporting to the management and external stakeholders, including analysing and reporting on expenditure at an aggregate and individual project expenditure level, and advising on the future financial implications of that expenditure
- Deliver budget advice, proactively follow-up common issues and ensure actions are in place to progress resolution of issues
- Ensure SLT members, Programme Leads and managers have a good understanding of their budgets and financial performance and are aware of trends and issues
- Written reports are high quality accurate, easily understood and highlight key issues.
- Collaborated with colleagues and support staff to maximize team efficiency.
- Stayed informed on industry developments and market trends to gain competitive advantage.
- Provided outstanding service to all individuals, promoting effective, and lasting business relationships.
- Spoke with peers to verify task completion, meeting tight deadlines, and schedules.
- Developed and implemented strategies to enhance partner relations.
- Liaised between partners and internal stakeholders to resolve conflicts.
- Networked with other professionals and organizations to expand contacts and opportunities.
Project Accountant
Ventia
01.2022 - 12.2022
- Assigned responsibility of the financial management of the assigned project(s) and business units
- Primarily focused on the delivery of the month end financials across the three Business Units, providing valuable insights to senior stakeholders
- Monitor the progress of projects, looking into variances, approving outgoing inclusive of expenses, and ensuring that project billings are issued to clients and payments collected
- Support the ongoing maintenance and updating of the project forecasting and cost control tools to ensure accurate representation of the financial position of each project / contract
- Actively support the accurate capture of all labour and plant costs
- Proactively investigate and report on personal utilization, productivity, and drive initiatives to improve these metrics
- Provide insights into the financial performance of the project, communicating this to the project leadership team
- Maintain focus on working capital balances for each project through timely submission of monthly claims
- Assist in the identification of risks and opportunities for the project
- Contribute to monthly performance reports
- Review and action relevant items on the open purchase order, cost & revenue reports before and after month end with the collaboration of the Operations team and Finance Manager
- Process revenue/cost accruals and journals as directed by the Finance and Contract Managers
- Adhere to monthly finance calendar and admin calendar timelines and deadlines
- Maintain excellent knowledge and understanding of standard end to end processes in scope and systems, including handover points with other functions
- Develop positive working relationships with other support functions
- Complete bank reconciliations for the entire Auckland Business units
- Ensure work undertaken and financial performances adhere to Ventia’s rules and guidelines
- Complete analysis of the month end reporting to senior stakeholders
- Deliver excellent service to allocated contract(s)/business units
- Liaise with project managers, providing them costs reports on a weekly basis and helping them with claims to clients such as Auckland Transport
- Assist with audits, budgets and prepare forecasts
- Prepare and process journals and requests
- Continuously improve the processes and functions through the development of new initiatives with considerations to business results
- Process month end and review financial information with managers and make any adjustments before finalising monthly results
- Responsible for forecasting for the Auckland business units.
- Monitored project costs, developed job cost forecasts, managed cash flow and approved invoices for payment.
- Read, escalated and reported invoices for projects of varying size and complexity.
- Eliminated discrepancies by carefully reviewing budgets to prevent overspending and adhere to financial objectives.
- Authorized and reviewed funds transfers into and out of project accounts.
- Set up and managed project accounting systems.
- Contacted customers to immediately find resolutions for escalated issues.
- Reported and assessed project profitability to leadership.
Project Accounting Analyst
Auckland UniServices Ltd
01.2018 - 12.2021
- Effectively manage relationships with key stakeholders – oversee and monitor critical activities relating to contracts, budgets and project milestones – coordinate and provide support to essential financial and contractual functional areas – full accountability for completing month-end Accounting for the English Language Academy, provide services as both a Project Accountant and Accountant for the ELA business unit – worked in collaboration with multiple government agencies on a number of high profile projects
- Financial oversight, management, and full responsibility for all projects, with values up to $10M
- Building and fostering mutually beneficial relationships with Heads of Departments, senior managers, and clients
- Playing a key role in providing information to internal and external Auditors
- Draft proposals for major clients such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Completing month-end activities such as revenue recognition, approving journals, bank and Paymark reconciliations, applying outstanding credit and debit and matching them off, preparing variance reports and ad hoc reporting
- Accurately complete reconciliations of project financials, offer support to the budgeting process as a Subject Matter Expert, actively assisting with daily contract administration functions
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of various Business Units and their primary objectives, establish strategies to ensure all targets are achieved
- Work in liaison with the Management Team in undertaking comprehensive risk assessments to underpin the strategic planning process
- Actively take part in evaluating and implementing process improvements, involved in career development and employee recognition initiatives
- Complete month-end tasks, including assessing revenue, processing journals, managing budgets, and preparing detailed proposals for the English Language Academy.
- Reconciled accounts and resolved both internal variances and discrepancies in external documentation.
- Prepared quarterly balance sheet reconciliations to obtain accurate picture of organization's financial situation.
- Researched billing and invoice problems and resolved issues in compliance with established standards.
- Analyzed trends and monitored customer behaviors to serve as predictors for future marketplace actions.
Assistant Accountant
All Truck Fix
01.2017 - 01.2018
Assistant Accountant
JH Tax Ltd
01.2016 - 01.2017
Contracts Coordinator
InterGroup Ltd
01.2010 - 01.2014
Education
Skills
- Budget Planning & Forecasting
- Analytical & Critical Thinking
- Complex Problem Solving
- Work well with non-finance pros
- Communication
- Reporting & Insights
- Commercially Savvy
- Managing Stakeholder Relationships
- Financial Acumen
- Commercial Intelligence
- Customer Focused
- Health & Safety Focus
- Personal Resilience
- Learning Agility
- Strategic Financials
- Strategic Planning
- Proficient in [Software]
- Financial Administration
- Creative and Critical Thinking
Certification
Full NZ Driver’s Licence, Class 1, P Endorsement
Accomplishments
- Introduced monthly Finance and Operations meetings at Entelar Group
- Financial advisor of 45 project managers and field managers at Entelar Group
- Training oncoming project managers at Entelar Group
- Successfully manage multimillion dollar projects and achieve margin and revenue targets monthly at Entelar Group
- Developed and implemented Project Status Form at Ventia
- Sole charge of the month end process for all Auckland BU’s at Ventia
- Identified underutilization of labour and plant at Ventia
- Proactively identified an error in current salaries for a specific Business Unit at Auckland UniServices
- Participated in multiple workshops and worked across diverse work streams at Auckland UniServices
- Discovered that the internal filing system was underperforming at JH Tax Ltd
- Introduced improvements to start of day processes at InterGroup Ltd
- Developed and ran two businesses comprising a hair salon and a cleaning business successfully for 5 years
- Became a homeowner at age - 26
Languages
English
Hindi
Licenses
Full NZ Driver’s Licence, Class 1, P Endorsement
Technology Skills
- MYOB
- Xero
- CRM
- Technology One
- PeopleSoft/PeopleSoft Financials
- SAP
- Concur
- Blackline
- Ariba
- Power BI
- MS Office Suite – Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access
- InfoEd
- Sentient
- Online & Email Platforms MYOB
- Workbench
- Dynamics 365
Personal Information
Nationality: New Zealand Citizen
Volunteer Experience
- Red Cross
- Covid Fundraising
- President: Auckland Bajrangi Santsang Ramayan Mandali
References
Professional and character referees available on request
Timeline
Finance Partner
Entelar Group
01.2023 - Current
Project Accountant
Ventia
01.2022 - 12.2022
Project Accounting Analyst
Auckland UniServices Ltd
01.2018 - 12.2021
Assistant Accountant
All Truck Fix
01.2017 - 01.2018
Assistant Accountant
JH Tax Ltd
01.2016 - 01.2017
Contracts Coordinator
InterGroup Ltd
01.2010 - 01.2014
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