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RAI SHUBHAM

Sr. Associate - Client Finance
New Delhi

Summary

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY A detail-oriented individual who is a certified Cost Management Accountant with experience in Accounts Receivables & Client Finance. Seeking a position as a financial manager with an organization to help provide insight into financial strategy and develop cost-effective initiatives. Experienced Senior Associate driven to optimize processes and streamline operations for team efficiency. Decisive leader with an analytical and flexible approach to solving problems.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language

Work History

Sr. Associate Client

Sapient
10.2022 - Current
  • Work with the client teams to review project tracking, billings/adjustments, and contract changes
  • Assessing the stages of projects (Project Life Cycle) and asking for relevant information from Client Partners to move the probability accordingly
  • Ensure that revenue is billed in accordance with the contract and scope of work
  • Working closely with the accounting team and account leads to gather the necessary information to properly invoice clients
  • Providing support to meet Account Receivables targets, Management of TWC including monitoring unbilled fees, timeliness of client invoicing, and decreasing delays in client invoice collections
  • Partnering with centralized billing and collection teams to resolve invoices, disputes, or collection issues
  • Liaise with the client engagement team on invoice collection efforts
  • Maintaining the status of invoice approval, generation, and collections efforts
  • Maintaining Client PO tracker/funding
  • Review and ensure bill rates of resources for Time & Materials projects reconcile to terms established in executed SOW/SCO for accurate client invoicing and revenue recognition
  • Monitoring client project unbilled fees and expenses and engaging project teams to complete client invoicing according to pre-determined billing schedules
  • Preparing month-close AR dashboard for management.

Sr Associate - Finance

Publicis Sapient
Gurgaon
03.2017 - 09.2022
  • AR review of customer portfolio (handling clients of APAC, North America & EU)
  • Preparation of AR Aging statements and circulating to customers
  • Follow up on outstanding invoices via phone and emails
  • Maintaining Client level trackers for Collections follow up
  • Liaison with Ops and Billing team to work on Client queries and resolving in time
  • TDS reconciliation of India Clients
  • Working with the cash application team to provide a reconciliation of payments received
  • Reduction of Aged Buckets to achieve company target of Overdue %
  • Preparation of reports for various internal stakeholders
  • Attending Conference calls with multiple stakeholders
  • Work on Unapplied cash items for respective customer portfolio
  • Work with GL teams regarding Month end balance queries.
  • Developed and maintained database of records to facilitate smooth transactions for financial processes.

Sr Executive

03.2013 - 03.2017
  • Monitor customer account details and identify and investigate non-payments, delayed payments, and other irregularities
  • Research and analyze accounts to investigate and resolve billing & account discrepancy
  • Credit Management through monitoring of credit period and credit limit of customers
  • Obtain credit information from the customers to maintain credit limit (in terms of credit limit & no of days) depending on the worthiness of the companies
  • Generate weekly aging reports and contact delinquent customers to secure payments
  • Allocation of all the payments received (NEFT/RTGS/ CHEQUES/CASH) from the customers
  • Coordination with sales, operations, and customers to resolve their queries
  • Working in coordination with the Sales team for the application of remittances
  • Responsible for credit collections on all accounts by contacting the customer by phone, e-mail, and written correspondence
  • Preparing and maintaining customer’s monthly reconciliation schedules
  • Accountable for performing credit collections on accounts in the range of current to over 180 days past due
  • Customer ledger reconciliation
  • Taking follow-up from customers for TDS certificate and reconciliation of TDS as per 26 AS
  • Assist in month-end reconciliation.

Education

CMA -

The Institute of Cost Accountants of India,
01.2006 - 01.2011

B.Com -

Delhi University,
04.2006 - 03.2009

Skills

Microsoft Excelundefined

Timeline

Sr. Associate Client - Sapient
10.2022 - Current
Sr Associate - Finance - Publicis Sapient
03.2017 - 09.2022
Sr Executive -
03.2013 - 03.2017
Delhi University, - B.Com,
04.2006 - 03.2009
The Institute of Cost Accountants of India, - CMA,
01.2006 - 01.2011
RAI SHUBHAMSr. Associate - Client Finance