Ashoka A B
Junior manger Pricing
Bangalore
Summary
Accomplished Pricing, Credit control, Payments & Invoice processing professional with 12 years of corporate experience. Looking to leverage industry skills and abilities for further career growth alongside with the organization. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Pricing Specialist
Diageo Business Services India Private Limited
9 2022
- Accurate, thorough and timely pricing data management with regards to all customers European Partner markets in scope on SAP
- Set up and manage list prices and customer investment levels/discounts within SAP
- Calculation and submission of price set ups for new product listing or replacement product pricing according to SLA
- Communicating yearly price increase to direct customers on both Spirits and Beer
- Submission of listing forms for new products
- Submission of price authorizations for all price changes
- Support Central Commercial finance team with analysis, data to monitor compliance with Commercial policy / pricing guidelines
- Rebate settlement to customers
- Stake holder management: Contact Commercial team addressing issues and seeking clarity
- Conduct bi-weekly meeting, MOM maintenance
- DTP Creation, approval process on same from governance
- CARM Control audit co-ordination with Risk and Compliance team
- Training team on process and assisting as and when needed based on experience and analysing skills
- Handling pricing dispute raised by customer
- Issue of credit note / asking to issue debit note to credit controller team based on customer price dispute
- Walk through to Team on KPI and CARM Controls
- Connect with Sales team on issue in Pricing Claims received from customers.
Credit controller
Diageo Business Services India Private Limited
10.2019
- Monitor and control the release of shipments for all customers to ensure minimum risk for the company based on Credit Policy
- Single point of contact in DBSI on debt collection from customers
- Build relationship with customers, markets, and other groups to ensure seamless communication
- Proving customers with monthly statements and balance confirmation letters
- Initiate discussions on the challenges around outstanding payments and overdue invoices
- Playing an active role in resolving customer queries and credit requests within deadlines
- Adopting Proactive process of chasing with aggressive collections
- (Via Call / Email)
- Manage credit risk (monitor payment behaviour of customers and propose credit limit changes)
- Manage customer ledger (up-to-date information and overdue items)
- Reviewing payments and bounced payments of customers
- Observing and reporting customer behaviour to help market understand the trend
- Responsible for claims and discounted processed to be followed liaising with Commercial team
- Ensure that the customer accounts are appropriately reason coded
- Performing monthly aging report and cash overdue projection report
- Facilitate amendments of credit limits, change management of risk category, maintenance of next review dates to minimize the Risk / Loss.
PTP Senior Associate
05.2017 - 10.2019
- Exception report – Documents which are not part of our payment run due to multiple errors will be investigated and resolving the issues on the agreed timeline so that invoices will be included in payment run within the turnaround time
- Duplicate Report – Finding the potential duplicates and make sure there will be no duplicate payments made
- Reconciliation of the payments and monitor accounts to ensure payments are made up to date
- Ensure to clear overdue invoices within Turnaround time to avoid late fees
- Take actions on rejected documents by the bank due to various reasons
- Complete activity taken care for the GRNI reconciliation of APAC market
- Performing line-item wise analysis for all open items on GRNI account
- Monitoring and clearing GRNI accounts on weekly basis by posting to GRNI account
- Working with market to reduce GLAT items in APAC region
- Supporting to manual payment and automatic payment process.
Associate
Xerox Business services India Private Limited
03.2015 - 05.2017
- Handled cash disbursement process for the accounts payable function of a leading Xerox client
- Payments for over 20+ entities handled
- Scheduled payments: Parameter creation, proposal creation, Payment run, Handling Reversals and rejections, KPI preparation
- Query support – Tier 2 support extended to the AP support team on payment queries and support extended to clients on various payment related queries
- Ensure accurate and on time payment
- Track Statutory payments like VAT, Excise Duty, etc., and process on-time payments
- Collaborate with Invoice processing team to clear month end open items.
Accounts Executive
MYNTRA.COM
02.2014 - 12.2014
- Mainly involving with the invoice validation process
- Assigning work to relevant executive
- Carrying out the quality check
- Providing consolidated report of work done by team to manager on daily basis
- Communicating with vendors and getting the soft copies of invoice in order to reduce manual work which involved time and effort
- Informing the vendors to provide us with the revised invoice in case of any discrepancy
- Liaising with various warehouses across the country for collecting the invoices.
Trainee - Content Analyst
THOMSON REUTERS
10.2012 - 01.2014
- Job involves handling requests from many clients relating to different asset classes like Forex, Money Market, Warrants and Fixed Income
- Analysing the request based on the priorities and allocating it to relevant analyst’s and ensuring these requests are addressed with proper due diligence and on time
- Liaise with Customer Relationship Managers based in different countries while handling requests
- Actively involved in a comprehensive project within the organization.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance
BMS College of Engineering, VTU
08.2010 - 05.2012
Bachelor of Business Management - Finance
Sriranga College, Mysore University
07.2007 - 05.2010
Skills
Applications
SAP, Concur, Citrix, MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Access & Word), E- Commerce, Oswald and Bank Applications
Mosaic Pricing request Tool
Pricing Analysis
Customer Service
Team Collaboration
Customer Complaint Resolution
Invoice Verification
Decision-Making
Brand Promotion
Timeline
Credit controller
Diageo Business Services India Private Limited
10.2019
PTP Senior Associate
05.2017 - 10.2019
Associate
Xerox Business services India Private Limited
03.2015 - 05.2017
Accounts Executive
MYNTRA.COM
02.2014 - 12.2014
Trainee - Content Analyst
THOMSON REUTERS
10.2012 - 01.2014
Master of Business Administration - Finance
BMS College of Engineering, VTU
08.2010 - 05.2012
Bachelor of Business Management - Finance
Sriranga College, Mysore University
07.2007 - 05.2010
Pricing Specialist
Diageo Business Services India Private Limited
9 2022