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SHARATH PATWARI

SHARATH PATWARI

Hyderabad

Summary

Achievement-oriented Finance & Accounting professional with 10+ years of corporate experience, specializing in Accounts Receivable and Order-to-Cash (O2C) operations. Proven expertise in managing end-to-end Finance & Accounting processes, service delivery, and people management. Skilled in process transition, stabilization, and optimization with a strong focus on accuracy and efficiency. Hands-on experience with ERP and SaaS tools including SAP, NetSuite, Avalara,Salesforce. Adept at preparing and presenting weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual dashboards/KPIs to senior leadership, supporting effective decision-making and business growth.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Billing Analyst

Demandbase India Pvt Ltd
02.2024 - Current

  • Owned and managed the end-to-end Accounts Receivable lifecycle: invoicing, cash application, dispute resolution, and reporting.
  • Ensured timely and accurate SaaS billing for contracts, renewals, and usage-based charges in compliance with ASC 606.
  • Performed Sales Tax reconciliation with Avalara, resolving discrepancies and ensuring compliance with multi-state US tax regulations.
  • Handled customer billing disputes, credit memos, and escalations professionally, maintaining strong client relationships.
  • Collaborated with Revenue Operations, Sales, Legal, and Customer Success to align billing structures, contract terms, and accounting processes.
  • Leveraged ERP and SaaS billing tools (NetSuite, Avalara,Salesforce,Ariba,Coupa) to streamline processes and enhance automation.
  • Maintained audit readiness by ensuring accurate documentation, internal controls, and compliance with revenue recognition standards.
  • Mentored and guided junior AR specialists, improving team performance and process knowledge.
  • Key Achievement: Improved billing accuracy and strengthened tax compliance through ERP–Avalara reconciliations.
  • Implemented AI tool Integration with ERP.

Sr. Financial Analyst

CBRE South Asia
03.2023 - 02.2024
  • Managed day-to-day bookkeeping and accounting of 110 US properties of 10 separate entities.
  • Responsible to analyse the all assigned property cash receipts: retrieved, downloaded and reviewed electronic bank receipts such as bank statements, Lockbox, EDI and EFT.
  • Review and approve the Processed posted payments using Ultimus tickets in MRI (Real Estate analysis Software) and Yardi databases.
  • Reviewed and edited lease agreements to ensure that terms in the documents correspond to client guidelines.
  • Ensured lease compliance, including renewals, extensions and terminations and Right of First Refusals.
  • Analyse and approve the lease set-up and maintenance, including physical files, database file set-up and managing initial requirements, including security deposit, rent and insurance requirements.
  • Analysed the properties cash receipts, trial balance and profit & loss statements for the assigned properties.
  • Collaborated with all levels of senior management, including associates, managers, real estate, and taxing jurisdictions to promptly resolve the property related queries.
  • Created and distributed monthly rent statements and filed documents in the share folders.
  • Executed financial assurance audits and implemented new control points and metrics to support business changes.
  • Reviewed documents and data to give accurate presentations and forecasts to higher management.
  • Documents any update/change in processes in the process SOPs and get it duly reviewed and signed-off.
  • Resolves queries (internal and external) related to the process within defined turnaround time.
  • Understands process workflow, documents SOP and identify key dependencies / handoffs which need to be planned & monitored.

Lead Associate

Solenis Shared Services
07.2020 - 03.2023
  • Cash Applications.
  • Handling a team of 7 members.
  • Monthly Statistical reports.
  • Work allocation and maintaining back up.
  • Reconciliations.
  • Reporting activities.
  • Working on unapplied & unidentified payments.
  • Netting activity.
  • Identifying Vendor & Employee return payments and reclassing it to appropriate team.

Accounts Receivable Specialist

DSM Shared Services
06.2018 - 04.2020
  • Applying payments received from customer & clearing GL accounts respectively.
  • Processing direct debits and clearing Direct debit GL accounts.
  • Refunding credit memos and any amount related to customers via payment runs.
  • Creating Dunning proposals and sending out the dunning letters.
  • Responsible for QC for the postings.
  • Reconciling customer account and GL accounts on daily basis.
  • Sending out the queries related to unapplied payments to FO for further investigation.
  • Training and cross training to new hires.
  • Preparing documentation for activities related to AR.
  • Customer Master data.
  • Auditing payment proposals.
  • Updating customer account with the payment information.
  • Providing invoice copies to RO & FO.
  • Amending due dates for the invoices as per the request.
  • Helping other teammates with the queries related to AR.
  • Handling AR-Bo mailbox and responding to mails.

Senior Process Executive

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2015 - 05.2018
  • Successful migrations - overcoming its limitations such as Language barriers & understanding Client's working style (Nordics Region)
  • Streamlined the payment applications process to be done without any errors.
  • Attending calls with onsite process owners & sharing updates with the team, if any.
  • Handling end to end AR process.
  • Daily review of auto rejection of Invoices - Identify and post the after respective corrections.
  • Posting foreign currency payments.
  • Cash applications and follow-up for unidentified payments.
  • Executing Manual refunds and remittance refunds.
  • Posting Corrections and reversals.
  • Statements to customers.
  • Implemented controls
  • Query handling.
  • Maintaining all assigned tasks like updating OTRS weekly report and closing tickets at 100% accuracy and met the TAT.
  • Manual invoicing and credit memo creations.

Education

Master of Business Administration -

ST.XAVIER'S DEGREE COLLEGE

Bachelor of Commerce -

Pragathi Degree College

Board of Intermediate Education -

Sri Chaitanya Jr. College

Secondary School Education -

Jyothi Vidhyalaya High Scool

Skills

  • Good oral, written & presentation skills
  • High tolerance of stress
  • Enjoying responsibilities
  • Quick learner
  • Good grasping ability
  • Inter-personal skills
  • Professional approach
  • Team player
  • Action-oriented
  • Result-focused
  • SAP
  • ORACLE
  • NAVISION
  • Windows family
  • MS office

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 04/13/95

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Telugu

People Management

  • Goal Setting and career mapping.
  • Performance appraisals.
  • Identifying and evaluating employee training requirements.
  • Encouraging, identifying and developing best practice sharing.
  • Resource Retention and back up creation.
  • Rewards and Recognition.

Achievements And Awards

  • Received Best performer of the month award more than 15 times.
  • Received appreciation from the Clients for the commitment and hard work.
  • Given an improvement idea and saved 80 hours' time yearly.

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Advanced
C1
Hindi
Advanced
C1

Timeline

Sr. Billing Analyst

Demandbase India Pvt Ltd
02.2024 - Current

Sr. Financial Analyst

CBRE South Asia
03.2023 - 02.2024

Lead Associate

Solenis Shared Services
07.2020 - 03.2023

Accounts Receivable Specialist

DSM Shared Services
06.2018 - 04.2020

Senior Process Executive

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2015 - 05.2018

Master of Business Administration -

ST.XAVIER'S DEGREE COLLEGE

Bachelor of Commerce -

Pragathi Degree College

Board of Intermediate Education -

Sri Chaitanya Jr. College

Secondary School Education -

Jyothi Vidhyalaya High Scool

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