Digamber Rawat

To pursue a challenging career as a service management professional in corporation for gaining mutual prosperity and synergic growth.

A diverse career graph with rich experience in Process Transition, Team Handling, S2P Invoice automation & Good understanding of accounting standards and accounting concepts. Comprehensive knowledge and experience in managing an accounts payable team in a large organization. More than 20 years of experience in end-to-end Corporate Finance operation (P2P, T&E & Order to cash). Proven ability to translate Business needs into technology requirements that support the company's Business objectives and to successfully manage all phases of Projects from needs analysis and requirements definition to Line of Business, Support Function, implementation, and training. Conceptual and practical experience in researching, understanding, and communicating technical accounting issues.

• Assistant, Operational Strengths: Experience in handling the P2P Process across the globe and functions., Countries Managed: Procure to pay (vendor management, Account Payable & Payment) for APAC countries that including India, Singapore, Australia, NZ, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines Corporate Finance., Vendor Management: New Vendor setup/ amendment of existing vendor, Aged Vendor analysis, vendor calling to verify bank details., Invoice Processing & T&E claims: PO & Non-PO based processing of vendor invoices and pre-pay auditing of T&E Claims for internal employees. Monthly Reconciliation of T&E payment Vs. T&E Bookings., Responsible for the day-to-day management of the accounts payable team with direct line management of staff in accounts payable officers., To ensure that the creditors’ ledger is operated accurately, efficiently and to an agreed timescale and ensure that the creditors are paid accurately and on time., To ensure smooth operation of the weekly payment runs and adequate checks to ensure that the correct payments are made to the correct creditors., To provide technical accounting advice on financial transactions and ensure accurate coding within the department and across Global offices., To be responsible for month end processes, ensuring that monthly reconciliation of AP Control Account & General Ledger, and bank accounts is carried out in compliance with firm's internal control policy., To develop financial reports and provide regular reporting on key performance indicators as agreed by management., To provide excellent customer service, manage and maintain good relationships with the internal and external stakeholders., Tax & Statutory Compliance: Adhering to the SOX audit requirement, closely working with external and internal auditors in meeting quarterly/yearly audit requirement, if required needs to fix call with our counterpart to ensure all the supporting documents are well placed to share with the auditor., Bank Reconciliation: AP VS. Bank reconciliation just to ensure all the payment are made properly with the correct vendor, this is the tool to identify the duplicity in payment if occurred.
• Treasury Management, Cash Management: Daily Cash vs. Vendor payment estimation should have a hard look otherwise payment will get delay due to insufficient fund and affect the creditability/goodwill., Foreign Vendor payment: To keep in touch with bank regarding the foreign exchange rates for the estimation of cash flow., Establishing and maintaining systems and procedures for review of bank reconciliation and monitoring the banks daily inflow and outflow of funds, Responsible for follow ups and escalation as per procedure, Create the payment proposal and receive the approval from the approval from finance head., Obtain the required approvals for payments as per pre-defined authorizer listing., Check for the potential duplicate payments using internal Duplicate Audit Tool., Responsible for follow ups and escalation on the query invoices as per the defined procedure
• People Management, Handling a team of 24 team members, including 4 Assistant Managers and correspondingly all 20 associates report to these 4 assistant managers as per country alignment., Identify and utilize talent among analysts/SMEs with focused training efforts, targeted professional recruitment, and the promotion of a performance-based work environment., Scheduling monthly one-on-one with each associate, monthly touch-base calls with their respective on-shore project teams, and guiding the associates to help them achieve their goals by passing proper feedback and identifying key areas of improvement., Deciding annual appraisal ratings for associates based on the annual matrix reporting, closing, and registering the same in GPS (Global Performance System).
• Procure to pay automation, Being a Part of the Source to pay automation project, managed to bring all the APAC countries under an invoice automation environment. Have already achieved 50% STP (straight through processing) i.e. touchless processing which ultimately achieved/saved 50% workforce efforts., Conducted training for all APAC business leads & and JBS teams covering all topics related to Accounts payable invoice automation implementation to make them well-versed with changes under the S2P platform., Assisting project team to finalize BRD (business review document) with complete review from invoice automation perspective., Delivered Invoice automation training to business users to make them well-versed on the upcoming changes for APAC counties post invoice automation., To be a part of daily invoice automation calls and discuss the changes, and challenges during the UAT period., Create Kyriba global payment hub for payment processing which reduces opportunities for fraud through electronic processing & and fraud detection software
• Process Transition, Experience in leading process transition from diversified geographical locations such as Singapore and Indonesia., Responsible for process mapping, head count mapping, hiring associates, and pre & post-transition calls with respective stakeholders for end-to-end process stabilization., Agreement of SLA/KPI’s to hit the go-live process.
• SLAs and Reporting Tools, Preparation of Service Level Agreement for reporting purpose, in accordance to the contract agreement., Preparation of production matrix, quality audit template, capacity mapping to monitor and analyze overall process health., KPI analysis on monthly basis to maintain process quality which includes First time right data, Vouchers overridden and Prior payment analysis, implemented DIIT tool( which identify duplicate invoices & payment) to ensure no duplicate payments as a part of AP Recovery project
• Client management, Responsible for quick and effective resolution of client escalation within agreed time line and thereby developing strong business relationship. Monthly operational calls with key-stakeholders for discussion on process update, key challenges, overall process health and the road map ahead.

• A diverse career graph with rich experience in Process Transition, Team Handling, S2P Invoice automation & Good understanding of accounting standards and accounting concepts.
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience in managing an accounts payable team in a large organization.
• More than 20 years of experience in end-to-end Corporate Finance operation (P2P, T&E & Order to cash).
• Proven ability to translate Business needs into technology requirements that support the company's Business objectives and to successfully manage all phases of Projects from needs analysis and requirements definition to Line of Business, Support Function, implementation, and training.
• Conceptual and practical experience in researching, understanding, and communicating technical accounting issues.

• Current CTC: INR 16.00 lacs
• Passport Number: G3152299
• Notice Period: 2 month (not negotiable)
• Date of Birth: 10/20/79
• Marital Status: Married

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