Keerthi Kumar C T
Finance Professional
Mysore
Summary
Payment Analyst with strong analytical skills and deep understanding of financial data. Proven ability to streamline payment processes, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. Known for strong focus on team collaboration and adaptability to changing needs. Expertise in financial reporting, reconciliation, and risk assessment, with results-driven approach.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Clinical Trial Payments Analyst II
Bristol Myers Squibb
08.2024 - Current
- Creating Purchase Orders for all the countries, Maintenance of invoices, PO closure and Vendor creation for all countries.
- Creating Purchase Orders for various studies based on vendor and contract types.
- Vendor management, payee setup, and vendor linking to the payee setup for all sites of the study.
- Working closely with study teams on escalations and providing the resolution within stipulated timeline.
- Assigning and managing the PO creation team and serving as the primary contact for vendor and study team queries.
- Uploading and Processing invoices in the system for payment.
- Working as a Grant Administrator (GA) for approving the invoices based on the contract.
- Constant involvement in Stake-holder management to address the queries and provide assistance in payment timelines.
- Played a crucial role in accelerating the migration of the POs to the new financial system (SAP).
- Management of the mailbox, which was crucial for the streamlined functioning of the payment process.
- Worked closely with the vendor master team to enable smooth updating of the vendor details and banking information.
- Managed high volumes of incoming invoices effectively, prioritizing urgent payments, while maintaining overall accuracy levels.
- Reduced errors in payment transactions by conducting thorough data analysis and identifying discrepancies.
Senior Payment Associate - Grant Payments
Fortrea Inc (Formerly LabCorp Drug Development)
10.2022 - 08.2024
- Reconciling the items between EDC, CTMS and IGPS on study Basis
- Handled 35+ Studies with 350 sites include EMEA, APAC and NA regions.
- Handled study calls on weekly basis to keep track on all the invoices.
- Validating the invoice based on CTA and EDC Documents
- Handled Queries from the site regarding the payment related issue, Overdue invoices/rejections.
- Following up with study team regarding aged invoiced and issue Logs
- Reviewing on-hold vouchers and help payment team to release payment on time.
Executive - Global Treasury | Payments Team
Cognizant Technology Solution
04.2020 - 10.2022
- Payment Initiation
- Running the Pay cycle on Daily basis - Initiation Host to Host payments
- Handling payments Queries
- Handling All manual Payment Queries
- Intercompany Settlements
- Respond to business units regarding payments and follow up with the banks.
- Experience in using various Bank portals like JPMC bank portal, HSBC, BT, CITI
- Direct, BOK, SANTNDER
- ETC
- Generate the Monthly Reconciliation reports.
- Handling the Wire Log reports
- Handling ACH direct debits in JPM portal
- Reviewed employee concerns and new opportunities to drive business strategies.
- Utilized appropriate financial tools to manage accounts payable and receivable.
- Identified trends and assessed opportunities to improve processes and execution.
Accounts Payable Specialist
Soft Vision LLC
04.2018 - 04.2020
- Accounts Payables
- Invoice Payments – uploading, verifying, and accounting.
- Expense reimbursements – verifying adherence to policy and accounting.
- Payment confirmation emails for check payments
- Vendor maintenance
- Follow up for bills / receipts, W9 & ACH details.
- Credit card accounting – follow up for missing receipts & accounting.
- Month Close Activities
- Preparing expense schedules for all the entities
- Preparing AP Ageing and completing the apply documents process to square off the advance against the invoices.
- Passing intercompany entries
- Maintaining and passing Provision and Accrual entries in Australia entity
- Maintaining prepaid sheet and accounting for US, Canada & Australia
- Passing depreciation entry and maintaining the calculations of US, Canada & Australia
- Preparing Bank reconciliation statements (passing entries for US, Canada & Australia)
- Produced month-end closing reports and provided actionable suggestions on remittance for quick resolution.
- Reached out to vendors and customers to verify information and follow up on client issues.
- Reconciled account information and reported figures in general ledger by comparing to bank account statement each month.
Jr Executive
Pay Square Consultancy Ltd
04.2016 - 05.2017
- Preparing monthly payroll calendar and sharing with clients
- Input & attendance validation
- Input Upload to precision Software
- Prepare the first cut & Final cut reports.
- PF & Bank File reports
- Statutory compliances reports
- Responsibility to increase Quality level - Co-coordinating with different clients for resolving the issues.
- Reviewed invoices and monitored payments for timely reconciliation.
- Proofread technical and creative outputs and deliverables for adherence to quality standards.
- Created and updated tracking techniques for Payroll calendar and metrics
Help Desk Executive
Infosys Limited, SLN Enterprises
11.2014 - 04.2016
- Promoted available products and services to customers during service, account.
- Management and order calls
- Responded to customer requests for products, services, and company information.
- Adhered to company policies and scripts to consistently achieve call-time and quality standards.
- Achieved high satisfaction rating through proactive one-call resolutions of customer issues.
- Promoted available products and services to customers during service, account management and order calls.
Education
BBM - Finance
University Of Mysore
Mysore03.2014
Skills
Processing payments
Payment Validation
Processing Payroll payments
Invoice Validation
Familiar with CTMS & IGPS Tool
SAP and Ariba
Vendor payment processing
Wire transfers
ACH transactions
Purchase orders creation
Payroll preparation and processing
Timeline
Clinical Trial Payments Analyst II
Bristol Myers Squibb
08.2024 - Current
Senior Payment Associate - Grant Payments
Fortrea Inc (Formerly LabCorp Drug Development)
10.2022 - 08.2024
Executive - Global Treasury | Payments Team
Cognizant Technology Solution
04.2020 - 10.2022
Accounts Payable Specialist
Soft Vision LLC
04.2018 - 04.2020
Jr Executive
Pay Square Consultancy Ltd
04.2016 - 05.2017
Help Desk Executive
Infosys Limited, SLN Enterprises
11.2014 - 04.2016
BBM - Finance
University Of Mysore