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PRIYA KUMAR

PRIYA KUMAR

Pune

Summary

Experienced professional with over 11 years of experience in Accounts Payable (P2P). Goal-driven Analyst, managing and breaking down large volumes of information. Proactive at heading off issues in operations, workflow, and production by uncovering trends affecting business success. Highly motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. SME (Team Lead)

Syngenta Services Private Limited
08.2020
  • Create and maintain Vendor and Customer Master Data
  • Calling vendors to verify new vendor details, bank details change/add and any other changes
  • Assisting Internal Business Partners to resolve Payment queries, Master Data queries and any other queries related to process
  • Perform Bi-annual controls for Vendor Master Data Governance which consist of deleting inactive vendors, reviewing and updating Master Data Governance Supplier Tool access and reviewing reconciliation account & payment terms of the vendors
  • Supplier account reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of payments
  • Ensuring Monthly, Quarterly and Bi-annual controls assigned to other team members are done on time by helping them in any queries and follow up the individual to avoid any escalation due to non-completion of the control on time
  • Handling Query email box and escalations with accuracy and timeliness
  • Reconciling individual Purchasing-Card statements with bank statements and clearing the transactions in SAP
  • Maintaining error log for the errors received from vendors, Business Partners and errors which are identified internally
  • Maintain daily volume for invoice validation, work flow exceptions, employee expenses and query emails
  • Sending Standing Order requests to Treasury team for property rentals
  • Ensuring timely payments to utility vendors
  • Following up for refunds with vendors
  • Helping team members in any query received from business partners
  • Preparing, updating and reviewing SOPs to document the process
  • Verify and audit invoices and expense reimbursements
  • Supplier account reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of payments
  • Minimize people risk, by ensuring deputyship and comprehensive documentation of all the processes and decision with no exception
  • Making sure that the analysis is done on how process can be stabilized further and improvements are done to come up with the most efficient process
  • Regular interaction with the business partners to resolve billing queries
  • Train new recruits on processes and monitor their progress.

Sr. Analyst (Accounts Payable)

Maersk Global Service Center
01.2016 - 08.2020
  • Create and maintain Vendor and Customer Master Data
  • Calling vendors to verify new vendor details, bank details change/add and any other changes
  • Assisting Internal Business Partners to resolve Payment queries, Master Data queries and any other queries related to process
  • Perform Bi-annual controls for Vendor Master Data Governance which consist of deleting inactive vendors, reviewing, and updating Master Data Governance Supplier Tool access and reviewing reconciliation account & payment terms of the vendors
  • Supplier account reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of payments
  • Ensuring Monthly, Quarterly and Bi-annual controls assigned to other team members are done on time by helping them in any queries and follow up the individual to avoid any escalation due to non-completion of the control on time
  • Handling Query email box and escalations with accuracy and timeliness
  • Reconciling individual Purchasing-Card statements with bank statements and clearing the transactions in SAP
  • Maintaining error log for the errors received from vendors, Business Partners and errors which are identified internally
  • Maintain daily volume for invoice validation, workflow exceptions, employee expenses and query emails
  • Sending Standing Order requests to Treasury team for property rentals
  • Ensuring timely payments to utility vendors
  • Following up for refunds with vendors
  • Helping team members in any query received from business partners
  • Preparing, updating and reviewing SOPs to document the process
  • Verify and audit invoices and expense reimbursements
  • Supplier account reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of payments
  • Minimize people risk, by ensuring deputyship and comprehensive documentation of all the processes and decision with no exception
  • Making sure that the analysis is done on how process can be stabilized further and improvements are done to come up with the most efficient process
  • Regular interaction with the business partners to resolve billing queries
  • Train new recruits on processes and monitor their progress.

ENO Accounts Payable

Credit Suisse Services India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2011 - 04.2015
  • Verify and audit invoices and expense reimbursements
  • Ensuring Vendor payments for foreign and domestic vendors in adherence to tax and legal requirements
  • Liaising with banks for ensuring adequacy of funds in bank accounts for payments, rejection of funds, stop payments, stale cheques
  • Maintain records for coordination with Records and Information management in order to process and maintain long-term, stored records
  • Supplier account reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of payments
  • Monthly review of intercompany account balances, settlement of all intercompany payable & receivable accounts
  • Minimize people risk, by ensuring deputyship and comprehensive documentation of all the processes
  • Making sure that the analysis is done on how process can be stabilized further and improvements are done to come up with the most efficient process
  • Create, maintain and freeze the productivity tracker on monthly basis
  • Documenting the service being provided (SLA), including the published market data (KPI) and related user interfaces, for internal use and as a source for customer documentation (SOP)
  • Regular interaction with the business partners to resolve billing queries
  • Train new recruits on processes and monitor their progress.

Sr. Process Executive

Infosys BPO Ltd
02.2010 - 06.2011
  • Leading team of 8 people as Lead Coach
  • ICA SPOC for the team
  • General Email box handling
  • Vendor invoice processing for foreign and domestic vendors in adherence to the tax and legal requirements
  • Weekly and monthly Intercompany (ICA) reconciliations
  • Monthly reporting
  • Doing monthly closing
  • This includes following activities: Preparing AP Monthly and BBSC Report
  • Preparing ICS193, ICS58 & ICS56
  • Monitoring and helping team in MEC Activities
  • ICS58 (Duplicate Payment) collector for the team.

Education

B.com, I st Class -

S.P.College/Pune University
08.2007

H.S.C, I st Class -

S.P.College/Pune University
05.2004

Skills

  • SAP R3 module
  • MyShop 90 (PeopleSoft ERP) Financials module
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Report Preparation
  • Advanced Excel
  • Data Analysis
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Tech-Savvy

Accomplishments

  • Won the Quality of the Quarter Award for Q3 2010, for excellence and dedication shown at work in Infosys BPO Ltd.
  • Won the Star Performer of the month Award for processing maximum invoices at Infosys BPO Ltd.
  • Won Individual Extra Miler Award for Q4 2011, for displaying exceptional performance in controlling the Net Promoter's Score from 1 to 7.5 in a month
  • Won the Team Excellence Award for successful transition and stabilization of the USA Accounts Payable team in Q3 2011 while serving at Credit Suisse Services India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Six Sigma - Yellow Belt Certification done in 2014 for changing the process to reduce/stop monthly duplicate payments for certain set of invoices.

Onshore Assignments

Travelled to Aberdeen, UK and ensured successfully transition and stabilization of the Accounts Payable process for the UK region in Feb 2016.

Passport Expiry

11/04/25

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Marathi

Timeline

Sr. SME (Team Lead)

Syngenta Services Private Limited
08.2020

Sr. Analyst (Accounts Payable)

Maersk Global Service Center
01.2016 - 08.2020

ENO Accounts Payable

Credit Suisse Services India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2011 - 04.2015

Sr. Process Executive

Infosys BPO Ltd
02.2010 - 06.2011

B.com, I st Class -

S.P.College/Pune University

H.S.C, I st Class -

S.P.College/Pune University
PRIYA KUMAR