Anirudh Jhawar

Notable Achievements:

• Lead FP&A team and assist team members in planning, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to manage P&L expectations.
• Manage Trade Spend operation and reporting process, including periodic reporting and ad hoc support.
• Played a pivotal role in the seamless implementation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) into the TPM Process, resulting in a remarkable saving of 6-8 FTE hours out of 100 FTEs.
• Strategically reorganize the Warehouse Trade Admin (TA) Team, optimizing processes and realizing significant savings of 2 FTE.
• Reporting financial performance, including accruals and unbilled analysis.

Notable Achievements:

• Operations management of AMEX Business Travel Payables & Reconciliations department of the Hyderabad Center
• Transitioned remotely AMEX Business Travel Reconciliation process and successfully received complete process Sign-off in less than 2 months.
• Performing month end activities including Provisions, write offs, accruals, and other Journal entries.
• Automated 42 reports resulting in saving up to 90 Hours.
• Reconcile accounts with the general ledger. Ensure that all entries are accurate and that transactions are reported in accordance with accounting standards and government regulations.

Financial Reporting and Optimization:

• Streamlined the reconciliation of TDS deductions, presenting accurate and comprehensive data to clients and various business groups on a monthly basis, optimizing the final payment process.
• Elevated financial transparency by presenting detailed payment performance reports for each business unit on a monthly basis.
• Implemented proactive measures by preparing reports on top vendors causing late payments, addressing issues promptly to enhance the overall payment performance of the DSM.
• Enhanced accountability by presenting Block Invoices reports weekly to clients and higher management, ensuring timely actions on invoices by the respective teams and maintaining a streamlined invoicing process

Notable Achievements:

• Successfully Increased On-Time Payment by 70% across all Business Groups.
• Implemented efficient auto-posting of Concur entries, streamlining the entry process.
• Spearheaded the successful implementation of OCR & FTR (First Time Right) invoices scanning for enhanced accuracy.
• Rectified all vendor master data discrepancies, ensuring accurate TDS/WHT codes and payment terms alignment

Growth Path:

• Acts as Single Point Of Contact for BG/SU in relation to Accounts Payable activities
• Monitor team’s daily, weekly activity reports, pipelines, and action items. Manage client communication regarding process status and escalations.
• Monitored progress within each department toward goal attainment utilizing measurable data in spreadsheet applications.
• Ensure structural process improvements.
• Responsible for maintaining up to date Invoice Only list & Critical vendor list.
• Reviewing / approval for the requests for vendor changes in details.
• Facilitation the communication cross functionally

Initial Career Journey:

• Drove and coordinated accounts payable functions
• Day to day operations of different AP areas including PO and Non-PO invoices processing
• Internal Client and Vendor Relations and payment processing
• Activities: OCR Validations and SAP reconciliation report
• Exception tracker review, Issue Tracker, daily error log, Discount capture reconciliation
• Rejections, block item, duplicate and Query audit
• GR reconcile and on hold invoice posting