GURUPRASAD KAMATH

R2R AND P2P FINANCE LEADER & FINANCE CONSULTANT Receipts & Reconciliations »Fund Accounting and Project Management & Operations Finance & Business Trailblazer enabling organizations to transform themselves and thrive in the global marketplace. Influential Finance Leader & Business Transformation Strategist with 16 years of track record in enabling and accelerating revenue growth including 5 Years of Shared Service experience and 6 years proven experience in Accounts Receivables O2C Process. Champion in SAP Fiori, Oracle 9i, Oracle 11i, Oracle R12, R14, Trax 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, Blackline, 8 Years of experience in Fund Accounting (Quantum AGT), GTS, GTX, JIRA, Compliance Filter and IGT+. Drive transformational change, team building, executing programs and guiding the strategic vision to navigate high growth. Extensive experience restructuring and realigning organizations to accelerate growth and sustain a laser focus on customer satisfaction. Pioneer in leading the entire aspects of Client Services, Project Management, Fund Accounting, Bank Reconciliation, Accounts Receivables ranging from Cash Application, Invoicing, AR Account Reconciliation, AR Reporting and Payables, Business Transformation, Business Partnering with Stakeholders and leading Cross-functional teams. Adept in spearheading business-finance strategies & leading cross-functional global teams. Single point of contact for Process deliverables-KPI, SLA, Process queries. Excellent people management aptitudes, strong problem solving and analytical skills, Strong Accounting Skills, Control mindset, excellent organizational adaptability, drive success with collaborative multiple cross-functional and cross-border teams. Blend third-party collaborating abilities to identify and capitalize on key improvements by challenging the status quo and suggesting process improvement ideas. Strong prioritization and focus with multitasking and competing priorities and know how to make right trade-offs. Identified opportunities for operational improvement by exercising internal control activities such as Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Value Stream mapping for the payments and Receipts process and streamlined the process by automating repetitive tasks and enabled Straight Through Processing.

• Continuous improvement, standardization of payments processing in Oracle that led to process efficiency of 2+ FTE through deployment of Value Stream Mapping
• Led the Receipts Team in consistently exceeding KPI metrics of 95% accuracy
• Played an instrumental role in streamlining end-to-end payments and receipt processes in SAP for around four phases of Go-live across 8+ locations and 350+ accounts in a project as a core member of the team
• Collaborated with the transformation team in restructuring the quarterly accrual process in SAP
• Significantly generated 4 FTE savings and positively impacted 250 Bank accounts by identifying inconsistencies and recommending enhancement of funding transfers by automating the process in coordination with the IT team; created the feed from the Quantum/Cash management tool which helped the unit in the error-free booking of custody transfers accurate reporting of investment accounting figures
• INTERNATIONAL TRANSITIONS
• Job Rotation on SAP FIORI to Swiss Re Management Limited, Bratislava Slovakia in 2018
• Transitioned R2R Process-Swiss Re America Holdings Kansas US in 2010
• Transitioned General Ledger Intercompany Reconciliation process for Washington Mutual Client –Seattle in 2008, Executive Applied Data Analytics in Indian School of Business (ISB)-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Models
• Regression and Classification, Logit and Binomial Regression, Perceptual Mapping, Factor Analysis and Principal Component Analysis, Decision Tree and Cluster Analysis
• US GAAP Certification Infosys Finance Centre of Excellence- 3 modules
• Data analytics – Intermediate module (Pivot, V lookup, Charts, Power Pivot, Power Query) LinkedIn Learning
• Diploma in Information Technology-Sikkim Manipal University- MS Office (Excel, Power-point, Visio, MS Word)

Applied Business Analytics