Nilesh Mane
Pune
Summary
Dynamic finance professional with a proven track record at Maersk Global Services Centers, excelling in financial forecasting and stakeholder management. Expert in leveraging tools like SAP and Blackline to enhance financial accuracy and efficiency. Achieved significant reductions in overdue accounts through innovative collections strategies, demonstrating exceptional client relationship skills and analytical prowess.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Analyst - FNA
Maersk Global Services Centers (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
09.2013 - Current
- Invoice posting of AP and AR for third party and ICP.
- Ensured invoices were reviewed for accuracy to prevent overpayments.
- Maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders to resolve disputes immediately.
- Ensuring payments are processed in accordance with vendor agreements, pay terms, and corporate accounting requirements.
- Preparing an aging report and following up with the customer on a daily basis to ensure that we reduce the overdue.
- Managing the manual payments workflow in a timely manner.
- Responsible for handling payment-related queries, questions, and resolving issues.
- Conducting analysis on KPI reports that belong to AP and AR.
- Preparing and reviewing vendor reconciliation on a monthly basis.
- Preparing and posting journal entries, such as bad debts, write-offs, reclassifications, accruals, and adjustments.
- Ensured accurate and timely updates of customer and vendor information in ERP.
- Preparing an open PO, GRN, and VDB report, and following up for closing.
- Preparing a daily inventory report to track daily workflow.
- Providing documentation of the audit request and GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) controls for AR and AP.
- Prepare the finance report, including PO penetration, revenue report, spend report, invoice trend, intercompany (ICP) report, and balance sheet report for Blackline.
- Bank receipt and payment posting in the ERP.
- Scheduling a monthly call with stakeholders to ensure a smooth process.
- Conducting analysis on KPI reports that belong to AP and AR.
- Account matching for AP and AR accounts in ERP.
- Weekly withholding tax reconciliation for vendors and tax payment submission to the revenue authority.
- Petty cash reconciliation and postings.
- Analyst (2017-2020): Managed credit risk (monitored payment behavior of customers, proposed credit limit changes, and made suggestions on order release).
- Maintain customer ledger, and provide comments for overdue items.
- Senior Associate (2015-2017): Responded to emails and calls, queries related to disputed invoices.
- Dunning and calling customers about overdue items.
- Implemented a collections strategy to reduce past due accounts, research, and resolve issues in a manner that expedites all cases in order to avoid any adverse customer impact.
- Associate (2013-2015): Delivered quality customer service by researching and responding to all internal partners' inquiries quickly, effectively, and authoritatively.
HR Executive, Compensation & benefit
Maersk Global Services Centers (I) Pvt. Ltd.
06.2012 - 09.2013
- Prepared reports on changes in salary structures, overtime payments, bonuses, and other forms of compensation.
Education
MBA - Finance
Pune University
Pune, Maharashtra04-2017
MBA - HR
Pune University
Pune, Maharashtra04-2012
B.Sc. - Agriculture
North Maharashtra University
Jalgaon, Maharashtra04-2009
Skills
- Performance monitoring
- Data modeling
- Econometric analysis
- Client relationship management
- Financial forecasting
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- MS-Office
- IFS ERP
- Ditto Tool
- Readsoft
- Blackline
- SAP
- Citi Bank
Certification
White Belt certification course (Six Sigma)
Accomplishments
- Migrated AR Process from Johannesburg to India in 2018.
- Standardization & improvement of process in six months duration with SOP documentation.
- Successful Year End Closing with new process & timely completion of Audit.
- Automation of KPI, Open Item Ageing & Inventory Report files for multiple entities. Creation of Supplier Vendor Reconciliation Template.
- Won various awards for continuing process improvements.
- Awarded 'Champ award' for 'Zero' error in five quarters.
- Awarded 'GSC APMT Learning Academy (GALA)' 'Gold Award' Q4 2016 for 'Auto invoice upload template' implementation.
- Received multiple silver awards for Kaizen submitted for process improvement.
- Promotions: Associate to Sr. Associate in 2015, Sr. Associate to Analyst in 2017, Analyst to Sr. Analyst in 2020.
- Awarded 'Going the Extra Mile Award' for helping team members.
- Achieved top score in 'The BUILD Program' Knowledge Test for AR.
Personal Information
- Passport Number: L35842532
- Date of Birth: 14th Oct 1987
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Senior Analyst - FNA
Maersk Global Services Centers (I) Pvt. Ltd.
09.2013 - Current
HR Executive, Compensation & benefit
Maersk Global Services Centers (I) Pvt. Ltd.
06.2012 - 09.2013
MBA - Finance
Pune University
MBA - HR
Pune University
B.Sc. - Agriculture
North Maharashtra University
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