John Benjamin Desouza

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About John Benjamin Desouza

Managed all aspects of a company involved in ship manning with 10 employees handling 14 ships, maintaining internal control systems for communication, documentation, purchasing, payments, billing, systems maintenance and upgrade also directly involved with all interaction with government departments, seamen and labor union. •Managed the accounts in a Ship owning company owning two tween decker bulk carriers. Was involved with all activities from submitting financial projections to bankers for financing acquisition of new ships, all monthly billing and MIS information, attending credit review sessions with the bankers, negotiating exchange rates for buying and selling currencies from the bank on account of inward and outward remittances. •Handled large volumes of cash.•Designing mechanisms for process and customer KPI monitoring, Customer PVR (Process Value Reports) and MIS reporting with the largest independent provider of port cost management services to the shipping industry.•Well versed with usage of Microsoft Office, at advanced levels for Microsoft Word, Excel (use of Pivot Tables, macros and graphs).•Well versed with use of Business Objects.•Spearheaded the corporate project of automating all important operational reports using Business Objects.•Communicated on email and telephone with corporations worldwide, representing Agents and Operators, to obtain clarifications with regard to settlement of port disbursement accounts.•Well versed with use of Tally accounting software. Also used Peachtree and Easy Account.•Installed and administered the Novell Netware 4.11 operating system server with 5 Microsoft Windows Clients.•Done some programming in Dbase and Foxpro, had created a multiuser program in Foxpro for keeping track of crew on board the company manned vessels and for tracking the itinerary of the company owned trucks•Can effectively communicate in English, Hindi, and Marathi, can read numbers in Arabic