Kedar Prayag
Pune
Summary
Results-driven finance professional with over 14 years of experience in financial processes, procurement, and data analysis. Expertise in contract management, vendor support, and reporting using SAP, Oracle, and Power BI. Proven ability to lead teams and implement automation strategies across diverse organizations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Finance Admin Rep
Ecolab
Pune
02.2025 - Current
- Working as Associate Finance Admin Rep for North America Location.
- Resolved maintenance escalations, targeting reduction of recurring issues.
- Submitted process improvement ideas and sought new opportunities.
- Initiated team activities and identified process innovations.
- Working on SNOW Ticket platform along with On Base application
- Handling internal queries and supporting team members
SME for Financial Competency Centre
Amdocs
09.2021 - 01.2025
- Worked as SME for Financial Competency Centre for 6 different regions.
- Handling Vendor Escalations on daily basis. So have hands on Impairment Team and AP Processing Team transactions.
- Communicated with vendors each day to address ongoing concerns.
- Working as Global Level focal for Vendor Portal solution (Amdocs created a Site for all the vendors).
- Handling Escalations and creating a tracker and taking monthly calls with management and provide analysis and ideas for better quality.
- Preparing Monthly Decks for 6 different regional leads and Controllers.
- Preparing Weekly Summary report for Higher Management.
- Creating a Productivity Report for the team.
- Earned 'Champ of the Month' award for successfully managing the pilot batch and introducing quick learning tools.
- Earned quarterly recognition from the company as 'Champ of the Month'.
- Created SAP Excel-based macro for ICB process, improving workflow efficiency and earning nomination for White Belt.
- Implemented interactive leave tracker for 200+ employees, enhancing monitoring of attendance and leave management.
- Have Won Syntel Champ for the Quality and timely Trade Processing and High Count for the month.
Senior Executive
Johnson Controls India Pvt Ltd
04.2019 - 09.2021
- Working as lead for Contract Creation Team for multiple Customers.
- Handling Invoicing, Purchase Order and Contract Creation with pricing.
- Assigned daily responsibilities to team members based on request flow to optimize workload distribution.
- Resolved billing discrepancies to ensure accurate customer invoicing.
- Ensure the agreed procedures are kept up to date, documented and adhered to within the team.
- Co-ordinate month end closing process within due timelines.
- Developed team dashboards in Power BI to enhance visibility of performance metrics.
- Took ownership of tracking and monitoring process KPIs to ensure alignment with team objectives.
- Performing and publishing IBC Audit Reports for existing and new team members (Total of 25 members).
Process Expert (SME)
Maersk India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 04.2019
- Promoted for the Next Level working as a PROCESS EXPERT.
- Identified improvement areas and implemented resolutions to enhance process efficiency.
- Facilitated collaboration with Finance and Operations teams to address project requirements and streamline processes.
- Monitoring & controlling of Country Dashboard.
- Developed ESSO (Export Sales Orders) and ISSO (Import Sales Orders) to facilitate purchase order and billing processes at Maersk.
- Managed sales orders for the consignee or shipper and purchase orders for vendors.
- To resolve mismatches between PO, Goods Receipts and Invoices so that there is timely payment of invoices to suppliers.
- To execute purchase order updates due to a change order for small increases to existing POs after approval from the Sourcing Manager.
- Transferred to the Pilot process with the promotion for the new set up.
- Handling a pilot batch of 6 members involved in transitioning operations and another team of 2 members for Macro Processing.
- Preparing Monthly/Weekly KPIs (Key Process Indicators) and publishing PPT Reports for the whole process.
- Developed contracts based on the specifications provided by the consignee and shipper.
Associate
State Street Syntel Pvt Ltd
05.2013 - 09.2015
- Coordinated trade operations with teams across 110 countries in North America.
- Monitored client emails and reviewed team-executed macros for accuracy and compliance.
- Processed SWIFT instructions for US domestic and international trades in fixed income, ABS/MBS, CP, CD, and cross.
Education
B.Com -
Shahu College
Latur01.2013
HSC -
Shahu College
01.2010
Tally ERP -
MS CIT -
Skills
- Procurement
- Purchase Order Management
- Purchase Order Creation
- Procure to Pay (P2P)
- Invoice processing
- AP query resolution
- Vendor relations
- Contract management
- Contract drafting
- Sourcing
- Negotiation
- Reporting Activities/MIS
- SAP
- Oracle
- MS Office
- Internal Process Auditing
- ICB process automation
- Process improvement
- Problem resolution
- People management
- Vendor Help desk
- Presentation development
- Communication effectiveness
- Problem resolution
- Communication effectiveness
Accomplishments
- Awarded 'Champ of the Month' for successfully handling the pilot batch and implementing quick learning tools.
- Successfully created an SAP Excel-based macro for the ICB process and was nominated for White Belt.
- Awarded in the company's quarterly recognition program as Champ of the Month.
- Implemented a new interactive leave tracker for 200+ employees to monitor employee attendance and leaves.
- Won the Syntel Champ for quality, timely trade processing, and high count for the month.
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 11/30/93
Languages
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Sanskrit
- English
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Sanskrit
Affiliations
Volunteering in Tree Plantation Org along with old age home and orphanage institutions.
Timeline
Associate Finance Admin Rep
Ecolab
02.2025 - Current
SME for Financial Competency Centre
Amdocs
09.2021 - 01.2025
Senior Executive
Johnson Controls India Pvt Ltd
04.2019 - 09.2021
Process Expert (SME)
Maersk India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 04.2019
Associate
State Street Syntel Pvt Ltd
05.2013 - 09.2015
B.Com -
Shahu College
HSC -
Shahu College