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R. Srithar

Senior Specialist AP
Chennai

Summary

Current working Location: Chennai SUMMARY: Competent individual with comprehensive experience of about 9 plus years in Finance & Accounting Operations looking forward to a making a significant contribution with a company that offers a genuine opportunity for progression

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior Specialist

Lincoln Electric Pvt. Ltd
Chengalpattu
09.2021 - Current
  • Handling Accounts payable process for US/CANADA and EUROPE
  • Reconciling Vendor statements and follow up on open advances/open invoices to maintain vendor retention
  • Posting/Reconciling Intercompany invoices to ensure balances were met in Month end closures
  • Connecting stakeholder for process updates and connecting the team on new process changes/updates
  • Reconciling and closing MEC and YEC activities of EMEA
  • Identified areas in need of critical improvement and implemented strategies to achieve targets.
  • Supported department leadership in implementing new policies, procedures and controls.
  • Oversaw work of junior personnel, helping to motivate strong performance and improve overall knowledge with focus on mentoring and coaching.
  • Led projects by coordinating schedules, organizing resources and delegating work to meet deliverable and timeline requirements.
  • Assisted with developing effective policies and procedures to improve operations.
  • Offered coaching and resources to help program participants maintain progress and achieve goals.
  • Drove change through quality-oriented strategies to help operations accomplish ambitious short- and long-term goals.
  • Conducted independent technical reviews of current processes and records to proactively identify and correct process and system issues.
  • Listened and responded to customer requests and forwarded necessary information to superiors.
  • Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work.
  • Interpreted clients' needs and introduced services to fit specific requirements.
  • Attended training programs to deepen professional skillset and assisted in training fellow store associates on existing and new training programs.
  • Built and managed relationships with key clients and partners to drive growth.
  • Monitored industry trends to adapt strategies accordingly.
  • Developed and implemented systems to track customer feedback and satisfaction.
  • Created and delivered presentations to internal and external stakeholders to showcase work.

Lead Associate

WNS Global Services private ltd
Chennai
04.2018 - 09.2021
  • Ensuring P2P process is executed timely and focusing on quality delivery of outcome as per agreed documentation and guidelines
  • Ensuring KPI’s are maintained and implementing ideas to simplify the actual work from the business
  • Handling Supplier/Stakeholder queries and providing RCA feedbacks on escalations
  • Ensuring timely payments to vendor all over EMEA Region
  • Engaging with frontline associates, coordinating with cross-functional teams within shared services module to ensure timely/effective completion of tasks
  • Maintaining shift plans and deploying resources to achieve Performance/delivery standards
  • Building up a scalable, dynamic team
  • Identifying talented individuals within the team, empowering them in order to achieve process/people excellence
  • Ensuring metrics and measurements on KPI’s are deployed effectively and reviewed in periodic cycles with key process owners to identify areas of improvements and arrest to issues
  • Conducting review meetings with the team and encourage practice of knowledge sharing and people engagement workshops
  • Performing DPM (Detailed Process Manual) sign off and review on Monthly/Quarterly and Yearly
  • Sharing Highlights and Lowlights of process performance weekly/monthly to (Internal and External) heads
  • Quality checks on daily transactions, query response and payments
  • Sharing process Review and Performance to achieve team goals
  • Reconciling and closing MEC and YEC activities of EMEA and APAC regions
  • Have comprehensive communication skills as well as proved organisational skills
  • Process Knowledge Transfer from Italy (Onshore)
  • During migration Documentation/Standardization were submitted for client overview and the same has been successfully signed off for process deployment
  • Process implementation has been successfully completed and tollgates has been addressed for deployment.
  • All the deployed process Data Metrics has been prepared and it has been successfully signed off by the Business

Senior Transaction Processing Associate

Accenture Solutions private ltd
Chennai
05.2016 - 03.2018
  • Invoicing and Query Handling – Handling Po/Non-Po invoices of EMEA region and resolving supplier queries on the same
  • Payments handling for EMEA Region, vendor payments and employee payments (SDMT and normal payments) and Payments follow up (On hold follow-up)
  • UK VAT payments (PAYE and GAYE)
  • ERS (Early Reconciliation Statement) reporting for fixed vendors for identifying missing invoices follow up
  • Vendor Reconciliation on Quarterly and Monthly cycles
  • Purchase order receipt confirmation and closing open Po’s as per onshore confirmation
  • Query handling regarding discount re-imbursement, vendor access activation for EMA regions, payment status and confirmation request, Bank details amendment request and due date adjustment
  • Worked with internal teams (Procurement/ T&E teams) for Po and expense related operations
  • Exceptions handling on outstanding due invoices and payments
  • Worked in RPA programs and OPEX programs for process management and efficient resource utilization
  • Updating reports and tables for Power BI, scheduling calls with PR and entity owners on Weekly/Monthly basis for stabilization and improvements feedback.

Finance & Valuations, Process Analyst

Xome Services Private Ltd
Chennai
03.2015 - 05.2016
  • Processing invoice (Po and Non-Po) received from Suppliers all over entity
  • Handling renovation invoices and payments
  • Monthly/weekly overdue follow up and aging analysis
  • Estimating Sq.ft calculations of property and pricing property values
  • Quality Check on processed invoices and Mailbox query handling
  • Vendor Management, supplier data management/maintenance
  • Conducting Weekly call with Process heads to get feedback on process performance and suggesting ideas for process development
  • Deploying new process automation ideas and updating status check by weekly and monthly to internal and external process owners.

Finance and Accounts, Officer

Wipro Ltd
Chennai
07.2013 - 03.2015
  • Processing invoice (Po and Non-Po) received from Suppliers all over entity
  • Loss and Damage claims, handling entire freight disposition, Outstanding’s claims, claim processing, check processing, Quarterly and monthly reporting on Loss and Damage incurred/Estimating claim amounts
  • Calls handling – Handling calls related to freight, Re-routing and Freight Claim status
  • Addition/Deletion and updating supplier information to the Vendor master data
  • Raising exceptions on issues regarding the supplier invoices (Po and Non-Po)
  • Inbound processing, handling RTV (Return to vendor) statements, paper works, aging and FedEx invoices and reporting
  • Quality Check and Mailbox handling.

Education

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Hindustan College of Arts and Science, Metro Matriculation HR.SEC.School

Skills

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Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of 8 in the development of Italy transition.
  • Standardised invoicing processing procedures for foreign language entities
  • Completed more than 5 offshore knowledge transfers

Software

SAP

InforLN

BAAN

Oracle

MS Office

CRM

Timeline

Senior Specialist

Lincoln Electric Pvt. Ltd
09.2021 - Current

Lead Associate

WNS Global Services private ltd
04.2018 - 09.2021

Senior Transaction Processing Associate

Accenture Solutions private ltd
05.2016 - 03.2018

Finance & Valuations, Process Analyst

Xome Services Private Ltd
03.2015 - 05.2016

Finance and Accounts, Officer

Wipro Ltd
07.2013 - 03.2015

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Hindustan College of Arts and Science, Metro Matriculation HR.SEC.School
R. SritharSenior Specialist AP