Direct the preparation and distribution of daily customer invoices, ensuring high levels of accuracy and timely delivery to optimize cash flow.
Manage and audit a comprehensive database of tax-exempt customers, ensuring all certificates are current and legally compliant.
Partner with Sales and Operations teams to validate customer correspondence, ensuring all billing-related communication is accurate and professional.
Collaborate with the Accounting department to identify gaps in internal controls and implement workflow improvements.
Maintain proactive, positive relationships with external customers and internal stakeholders to resolve billing disputes and inquiries efficiently.
Act as a key liaison for external auditors, promptly fulfilling requests for documentation and providing clarity on billing and tax processes.
Proactively identify and advocate for efficiency opportunities across departments to reduce manual entry and redundant tasks.
Provide agile support for special projects and ad-hoc financial initiatives to assist the broader finance team in meeting deadlines.
Monitor daily workflow and review team work products to ensure 100% accuracy and adherence to productivity targets.
Act as a key point of contact for the internal team to resolve inquiries and system related bottlenecks.
Facilitate comprehensive training for the team on new procedures and contribute to the continuous refinement of SOPs.
Analyzing and reviewing contracts, purchase orders, master agreements and related documents.
Collaborate with the sales team, pricing team through emails if any approvals are missing.
Followed deadlines for processing billing and revenue recognition schedules.
Ensure there is no delay/loss of service during the period of processing.
Provide login access to customers once the contract is accepted.
Work on mid-term upgrade contracts with additional information to address change, pricing change, and extension/termination of service.
Review Payments methods and ensure billing is done accurately based on contractual terms.
Create usage adjustments for transfer of usage or cancellation of invoices of the customer and internal requirements.
Resolve queries relating to contracts, payments or any other related documents.
Provide the necessary support to the team to clarify issues and questions.
Conduct Weekly team huddles to discuss the improvements and new updates in the process respectively.
Finance Analyst
Infor
05.2019 - 06.2021
Obtaining the order management team’s countersigned documents, creating the invoices as per the standard terms and conditions and delivering the invoices to respective customers accordingly.
Managing routine tasks like executing renewal agreements at clients request and handling proformas.
Invoices must be uploaded into the appropriate client e-portals in order to be paid on schedule.
Coordination of order setup difficulties with upstream operations.
Processing Credit packages and uploading them into Basware’s e-flow to create and set up credit and rebill orders in accordance with customer requirements and agreement modifications.
Communicate any issues/discrepancies regarding payment directly to the client and arrange for their resolution.
100% client satisfaction while managing complicated orders of various kinds.
Processed hardware invoices and coordinating with salespeople regarding the order setup and the invoice layout.
Provide monthly dashboard reports and process refresher courses to management.
Audit the cases processed by the team on a daily basis to ensure quality.
Ensure Production and Quality SLAs and KPIs are met on a daily and monthly basis.
Managed high-value transaction processing while consistently meeting daily, weekly and monthly reconciliation goals.
Communicated directly with customers and collection teams via phone and email to resolve billing disputes and payment misapplications.
Maintain daily contact with customers to ensure that cash is received on or before the due date.
Analyse the context of delinquencies by size of exposure & no of cycles a borrower has been through.
Monitor credit score of clients & accounts to conduct suspected and credit transactions.
Reduce/ suspend the credit line of risky customers as per Credit Bureau score & Internal credit ratings.
Initiate installment payment plans & modify payment terms for debtors who are in financial difficulties.
Provide timely overdue status, collection forecast & escalate to the stakeholders.
Escalate delinquent accounts to credit hold & suspend billing temporarily until severe overdue are cleared.
Prepare dunning proposals & involve sales managers as necessary to accelerate the collection process.
Resolve disputes relating pricing, rebates, short payment, over-payment, material rejection & refunds.
Refer severely overdue accounts to the legal team for legal action if required for bad debt recovery.
Process Developer
Genpact
06.2014 - 05.2019
Submitting for approvals to four levels with all valid documents attached. (Invoice / POD/ GRN / PO Copy or ESOF / Docket details or LR number / Mail confirmations).
Issuing Credit Note / Debit note / Replacement: Processing COFS (customer order fulfillment system) in BPCS (Business Process Control Systems).
Submitting it to the Finance team for validation and Dispatching Credit /debit Memo to the customer.
Recall of material: Customer/Sales/Transporter/Warehouse team to bring back the material to the warehouse.
Coordinating with Generating Daily, Weekly and Monthly Reports.
Accelerate cash flow with an integrated quote-to-order-to-cash process across sales and finance.
Monitor orders and reduce days sales outstanding (DSO) with real-time dashboards and detailed reports.
Ensured claims are received and processed by payers.
Made outbound calls to chase credit cardholders with outstanding balances to arrange payment or to provide a payment program.
Generate month-end aging reports.
Responsible for performing collections activities to meet goals and metrics.
Prepare weekly reports on billed invoices and send them to the supervisor for review.
Provided statements and notices of payment due to the cash application team, resolved payment and invoice issues promptly for the collection team.
Reduce Daily Sales Outstanding with real-time dashboards and detail reports that monitor orders.
Skills
Salesforce lightning
Service now
Microsoft (excel, word, powerpoint & outlook)
Oracle (US400 IN)
SPCA, IDaaS console, Viper
Tableau
Softrax, BOLT
Baseware, Ariba
BPCS (Business processing control system)
SAP
Affiliations
Silver Award for proficiency and achieving process metrics with more than 97% accuracy month on month.
Recognition and awards for innovative ideas leading to reduced workload and pressure during peak business hours.
Multiple Bronze awards for being a consistent performer in the team.
Edge award from Client for resolving critical queries, avoiding credit and rebill to the customers.