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Pawan Pareek

Chennai

Summary

Highly motivated finance professional with over 7 years of experience, skilled in Accounts payables, Receivables & Travel & expense reimbursements. Expert in leading cross-departmental teams to achieve financial objectives and maintain positive cash flow, with a proven track record of improving process through innovative strategies.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Specialist

Viasat
Chennai
01.2024 - 10.2024
  • Taken care of Accounts payable, Receivables & Travel & Expense reimbursements.
  • Handled Collection activities of customer accounts to make sure that the customers are paying on time.
  • Analysing and resolving the suppliers, employees and Customers query globally by providing the end to end support.
  • Responsible for creating the customer invoices and booking the invoices in the customer portal.
  • Improved cash flow by 15% through streamlined accounts payable, Receivables and Travel & expense process.
  • Prepared global cash reports, manage cash application processes, and support credit management and treasury functions.

Senior Finance Associate

McKinsey & Company
Chennai
09.2021 - 01.2024
  • Handled a team of 19 members to meet the SLA & TAT. Responsible to lead the monthly calls with PPT to the stakeholders and Accountants.
  • Responsible for handling cash, credit, and Cash advance expenses.
  • Responsible for creation of SOPS & a part of SAP & SAP Concur Implementation Team.
  • Reviewing and taking care of Anti corruption expenses to meet the compliance standards in SAP Concur.
  • Provided the Travel and Expense policy & SAP Concur trainings to the new employees.
  • Posted timesheet adjustments and reviewed the checklists of the local offices created by the team members.
  • Allocated the work to the team and monitored the aging expenses.

Analyst

Accenture
Chennai
04.2019 - 10.2020
  • Reduced vendor query response time by 25% by streamlining invoice processing to payment workflows.
  • Increased financial accuracy by 15% by preparing vendor reconciliation and sending remittances.
  • Responsible for maintaining the SOPS up to date and getting the sign off from the client side.
  • Exceptional handling the dispute cases of vendor payments to make sure that the client is not paying any charges or interest fees.
  • Preparing vendor Reconciliation and sending remittances. Preparing VAT reports and sending to the AFCS.
  • Auditing the Emergency invoices which were already processed & Processing of PO & NON – PO Invoices with in the SLA.

Senior Associate

Maersk
Chennai
01.2017 - 04.2019
  • Improved data integration efficiency by 25% by implementing successful invoice data transfer from FOSS to SAP.
  • Reduced the AP debits and payment overdue. Clearing the duplicate and reversal entries from vendor book.
  • Applied customer Remittances to record the payments in the books.
  • Handled the AFR process to avoid stop threats of releasing containers.
  • Provided exception handling support for Accounts receivables queries.
  • Processing of PO & NON – PO Invoices and Processing advance payment and manual Payment requests.

Education

Master of Commerce -

University of Madrs
Chennai
12.2020

Bachelor of Commerce -

Madras Christian College
Chennai
04.2015

Skills

  • Accounts Payable
  • Travel & Expense
  • Query Handling
  • Payment processing
  • Invoice Processing
  • SAP
  • Oracle
  • Coupa
  • CONCUR
  • MS OFFICE

Projects

A project on brand awareness among the people, 11/01/13, 12/01/13, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Madras Christian College, Project involved conducting a study on buying preference of customers regarding premium brands of denims with regard to price, design, comfort, brand name & color. To study the satisfaction level of customers regarding premium brands of denims with regard to price & comfort. A project on Bank - Banking structure and functionality In India, 07/01/14, 08/01/14, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Madras Christian College, The Project includes a day-to-day general banking activities which is differentiated by writing & return of cheques, opening and closing of accounts, creating passbook and cheque books, Filling of withdrawal & Aadhaar card entries respectively.

Hobbies and Interests

  • Financial Markets Enthusiast
  • Innovative Technologies in Finance
  • Mentoring Future Finance Leaders

Awards

  • Best Speech - Entrepreneurship, 01/01/14, Madras Christian College
  • Innovative Idea - 48 Hours Campus Challenge, 08/01/14, Madras Christian College
  • Champ of the month, Maersk
  • Star of the Quarter, Accenture
  • Spot Award, McKinsey & Company

Timeline

Specialist

Viasat
01.2024 - 10.2024

Senior Finance Associate

McKinsey & Company
09.2021 - 01.2024

Analyst

Accenture
04.2019 - 10.2020

Senior Associate

Maersk
01.2017 - 04.2019

Master of Commerce -

University of Madrs

Bachelor of Commerce -

Madras Christian College

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