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MOHAMMAD FAHAD FAROOQUI

MOHAMMAD FAHAD FAROOQUI

Navi Mumbai

Summary

Started my journey as an Accounts payable Accountant from Accenture. I worked for Mondelez client and taking care of invoice processing, vendor reconciliation, GRIR reconciliation and month end reporting. And appointed as a POC of LATAM and MEA regions. After that I have joined YouGov PLC in which I am taking care of overall activities of Accounts Payable from invoice processing to payments, creation of employee into Concur and duly approving their claims. And also, I have done the transition for two regions India and Dubai and successfully completed the automation payment project. Currently I am working in IPSOS, wherein I have joined as a assistant manager role, taking care of overall 7 people and managing escalation, provisions. financial review, KPI reporting and actual vs budget.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Manager Accounts Payable

IPSOS Research Private Limited
08.2023 - Current

Area of work includes

  • Built a dashboard to show the Turnaround Time (TAT) as the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for invoice allocation and invoice approval allocation.
  • Involved in monthly provisions after reviewing all criteria, identifying invoices not booked due to various issues.
  • Managed a team of 7 people, overseeing their day-to-day activities and handling escalations.
  • Conduct monthly financial reviews with the CFO.
  • Worked on Actual vs. Budget analysis to compare departmental budgets with actual spending on a monthly basis.
  • Tracked the amount booked in the respective month against the provision made.
  • Uploaded payments into the bank system.
  • Verified and managed Tax Deducted at Source (TDS).
  • Allocated the number of invoices for booking to respective team members on a daily basis.
  • Shared KPI numbers with the CFO and other regional heads on a daily basis.
  • Set up the process for vendor reconciliation due to which we have cleared the number of legacy items which pertains in the supplier ledger.

Account payable analyst

YouGov PLC
04.2021 - 08.2023

Accounting software is ORACLE NETSUITE

The area of work includes:

  • I have started with the transition for India and Dubai
  • My responsibilities were SOP creation, stake holder/supplier management, Activity timeliness, maintaining a proper documentation for KT/OJT
  • I have ensured that no activity should be missed which would be new item for escalation once we GO LIVE
  • Booking of PO/NON-PO invoices after general checks complying with Accounts Payable policies and procedures and ensure that the invoices have been booked before their due dates.
  • I have done the project on Automation payment in which supplier/employee's payments are automated directly from accounting software instead of manual process of putting all the details into the bank as per suppliers.
  • Timely follow ups on invoices with suppliers and stake holders which are on hold.
  • Preparing the weekly report for AP aging so that we can see overdue invoices or items which are hold due to pending queries.
  • Weekly call with suppliers and stake holders for publishing the AP aging data or to resolve their queries.
  • Preparing the payment proposal file for weekly payment run also in foreign currencies.
  • Creation of new supplier into the system by checking all the necessary details like supplier name, address, VAT registration number, bank details etc.
  • Creation of new employees into Concur and approving their claims by performing all necessary checks with supportings as per process.

Transaction Processing Analyst

Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd
04.2016 - 04.2021

Last designation was Transaction Processing Analyst SME (joined as transaction processing new associate)

Accounting software was SAP.

The area of work includes:

  • Accurately and timely processing of invoices for large and multi-site organizations
  • Handling and resolving various AP queries.
  • Processing of PO as well as non-PO invoices in which regular contact was required with the clients for various approvals.
  • T-codes which we used mostly daily are MIRO, MIR7, ME23N, FB60 etc.
  • Resolving the statement of vendor's unpaid invoices by investigating Goods receipt and invoice entry and processing payment on time.
  • Performing GRIR Reconciliation by extracting the open POs report and do the detail investigation from SAP (using no of T-codes) of unmatched quantity and balances between Good's receipt and Invoice receipt.
  • Follow up with the respective individual (Vendors/Requisitioner /Master shopper/ Locals) for validating/clearance the mismatch balances and resolving the queries related to AP and keeping records which helps while doing the reconciliation of GL to upload it into Blackline tool.
  • Preparation of Monthly Exposure report by taking all inputs from every team which published on a global basis and have a final call with all the country's financial controllers including regional/pay leads as well as project's lead.
  • In my overall period, I have done two successfully transitions for MEA and LATAM regions
  • I was a POC, and responsibilities were SOP creation, SLA, query resolution, activities completion duly on timeline and final report/slides preparation which published to the clients monthly over the Global Finance call.

Education

PGDBA - Finance

Symbiosis
01.2023

B.COM -

CHHATRAPATI SHAHU JI MAHARAJ UNIVERSITY
Kanpur, UP
01.2015

12th - Commerce and Accounts

BISHOP WESTCOTT SCHOOL
Kanpur, UP
01.2012

10th - All Subjects

BISHOP WESTCOTT SCHOOL
Kanpur, UP
01.2010

Skills

  • Knowledge of Accounts payable from invoice processing to payments
  • Also worked into blackline tool for uploading the GRIR reconciliations
  • Skilled in preparing excel reports and presentation
  • Professional communication skills in maintaining a good relation with the controllers, suppliers, stake holders and other finance leads
  • Familiar with advance function like VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, Index/match/offset, Count if, Sum if, If error, Pivot table, Excel charts, conditional formatting etc
  • Well versed in MS Office( Excel, power point and word) and Concur,
  • Accounting Software- SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Symphony and COUPA

Accomplishments

    • Received best employee award to work in a critical situation for the Accenture.

    • Got the best performance award among various teams in Accenture.

    • Within 1 year of joining in YouGov, achieved CENX Finance monthly award across all the departments.

Certification

• Diploma of Certified Hardware Intensive Program from UPTEC Computer Consultancy ltd.

• Certification of CISCO Network Associate Program from UPTEC Computer Consultancy ltd.

• Cleared a CCC (COURSE ON COMPUTER CONCEPTS) from NIELET (DOEACC Society).

• Certification in Tally 9.O from Data Expert Institute.

Hobbies and Interests

Playing Cricket, Badminton and Bike Riding

Timeline

Assistant Manager Accounts Payable

IPSOS Research Private Limited
08.2023 - Current

Account payable analyst

YouGov PLC
04.2021 - 08.2023

Transaction Processing Analyst

Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd
04.2016 - 04.2021

PGDBA - Finance

Symbiosis

B.COM -

CHHATRAPATI SHAHU JI MAHARAJ UNIVERSITY

12th - Commerce and Accounts

BISHOP WESTCOTT SCHOOL

10th - All Subjects

BISHOP WESTCOTT SCHOOL
MOHAMMAD FAHAD FAROOQUI