Gayatri Panirselvam

Finance Operations professional with 14 years in the airline industry, focused on Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, and Shared Services Operations. As Assistant Manager at AirAsia Shared Services, leads finance operations and drives process improvements. Enhanced the GS Submission System by redesigning workflows for expense claims, resulting in streamlined processes and improved financial controls. Committed to leveraging technology to optimize finance operations.

• 2013
• Establishment of AGSS in 2013 for all SEA AOCs sites on Account receivable.
• Participated in migration of Shared Service from BKK(Bangkok) to Penang for period of 3 months in 2013.
• Supported and initiated revised control sheet for Inflight Sales during GST implementation across all local hubs account.
• Developed understanding on PRD accounting process of MAA & bank reconciliation Successfully reviewed control sheet and journal entries on my own before posting into Axapta.
• Managed to conduct Bank Reconciliation on my own without any consultation from my supervisor from July'13 closing.
• I also worked across my department with my supervisor to improve my understanding from time to time.
• Applied the processes accurately and complete al processes of PRD & bank reconciliation 2 days prior to dateline.
• 2014
• All previous years 2013 and AR aging has been written off and as for the Nov 2014 also has been offset to clear.
• Managed to clear all outstanding from bank reconciliation (MBB-25113 & 25112, -W4-Unidentified Revenue.
• Manage to clear unidentified revenue from bank recon for the previous year 2013 commencing march 2014 and successfully completed all outstanding unidentified revenue in July 2014(Cash Sales).
• Cleared all current year (2014) unidentified revenue within 30 days from the date of occurrence. (Cash Sales& Inflight Sales).
• Cleared Inflight sales unidentified revenue during data clean up in July 2014 for the previous years.
• Developed understanding on the accounting processes of MAA inflight sales such as report retrieving from IFS4 system, invoice issuing in Axapta and reconciliation between bank in slip and the bank statement in December 2013 from Payment Channel Team.
• Encountered issues in matching against the sales figure derived via IFS4 and bank statements, thus implemented lean system(control sheet similar like cash sales control sheet) in August 2014 in order to view the variances between bank in amount and station reports and the report derived via IFS4 system.
• Developed understanding on the accounting processes of MAA DutyFree Sales via self-study on magento system, retrive sales report from commercial team and bank in slips from KUL station.
• Encountered issues in matching against the sales figure derived via reports sent by commercial team and bank statement, thus implemented lean system (control sheet similar like cash sales & inflight sales control sheet) in September 2014.
• Booked sales in Axapta for MITM & Yuan Carnival on ad hoc Basis and matched against the bank in slip and bank statement with the reports sent by commercial team.
• 2015
• MAA /TAA cash sales, Inflight sales & Duty-free sales, DCS and bank in slips are updated on daily basis, on some circumstance every three days once.
• In the case where the DCS and the bank in slips are not received on daily basis/three days once, numerous emails and communication via LYNC was used to get updates from respective stations. Eg: Requested for updates on forex bank in slip for KUL Inflight & duty-free sales by weekly.
• Supported during maternity leave by working from home (certain days) (February 2015).
• Developed understanding on New Axapta 2012 and adopted the changes with hand on after back from maternity leave. (April 2015).
• Discovered after discussing with team members that cash revenue amounts for KUL station can't be accounted in as the data provided was inclusive of AAX data. As a rectification process, sales amount had to be derived via sales report and filtered to MAA agent codes.
• Reduced variances from five digits to four, three and nil (effective July 2015).
• Perform recon and Interco for the stations which has petty cash (AAB) for TAA Stations, Interco for AR/AP contra stations and Interco for bank account in AAB for TAA stations"
• Added tax computation (GST) effective from April 2015.
• Added Crew commission as part of the expense in deriving the gain/loss of inflight sales.
• Further improved in the in-flight control sheets by categorizing the sales amounts to domestic and international sales and added crew commissions and tax computations, so that the control sheets are more transparent and more detailed. (Effective April 2015).
• Highlighted tax computation in the IFS4 system is wrongly calculated to Lead and ICT. (April 2015).
• Manage to clear unidentified revenue from bank recon for the period Jan-Mar 2015.
• Cleared all current year (2015) unidentified revenue within 30 days from the date of occurrence. (Cash Sales, Inflight & Duty-Free sales).
• AR aging has been offset to clear. (As of the current period.)
• Reconciled Nepal donation fund collection, Makna Tshirt Sales amount & Travel Fair sales in the first quarter.
• 2016
• Reduced Aging – Zero outstanding from AR Aging > 60 days.
• Closing deadline. ZERO Exception closing of accounts.
• Establish robust datelines on account reconciliation.
• Always met the dateline for MAA/TAA Closing. (T+4).
• Always completed bank recon on time. (T+9).
• Reduced unidentified Revenues arises from bank recons. ZERO item > 60 days.
• Manage to clear most of unidentified revenue from bank recon for the period 2015 and for 2016 below the threshold AOP.
• Cleared all current year (2016) unidentified revenue within 30 days from the date of occurrence. (Cash Sales, Inflight Sales) for several millions of saving discrepancies.
• 2017-2018
• Managed to clear most of unidentified revenue from bank recon for the period 2016 and prior to that.
• Cleared all current year unidentified revenue within 30 days from the date of occurrence.(Cash Sales, Inflight Sales).
• For non related to Cash Sales/Inflight Sales unidentified revenue, I have check/checking with relevant team such as payment channel, credit card team, AP Team , GL Team, Banks( to provide in depth details) and Country finance.
• AR aging has been offset to clear.(As of the current period) for Both MAA & TAA.
• In the event, if not cleared, Justified the reason being.Eg: PNR's not captured by Skyledger, Pending Corp team to perform manual adjustment.
• Perform Audit and recon for the station expenses, sales and bank in amount for the period from 2015 till 2017, manually check by PNR level, Compiled and prepared control sheet by Daily basis and submitted the compilation to assist country finance on the audit which was carried on DAC station and station Manager.
• Perform reconciliation between Navitaire and Sky ledger to find the actual variances between both postings before making settlement in Axapta for forex.
• Assist in New station setup in Axapta and assist station for any queries raised.
• 2019
• Participated in oracle project discussion on Ad hoc basis for PRD related items.
• Participated in all the UAT sessions for both TAA & AAB.
• Managed to minimize all open items in the bank recon before migrating open item balances from Axapta to Oracle.
• Managed to minimize all aging items for all AAB & TAA stations (57 stations) before migrating open item balances from Axapta to Oracle.
• Successfully managed to perform month end closing for TAA stations by creating receipts, creating memos and invoices and perform settlements in the oracle system for first go live in May 2019 for April 2019 closing and the same for AAB station in Aug 2019 for July 2019 month end closure.
• Perform bank reconciliations via oracle system manually and used the data to produce the customized bank recons in excel from April 2019 closing.

• Address: Penang, Malaysia 14120
• Phone: 012 – 510-8981, 04 – 508-3455
• E-mail: gaya3_89@yahoo.com