SK Salim Mohammed
Cuttack, Odisha
Summary
A motivated and ambitious professional with nine years of robust experience in BPO Finance across functions such as Accounts Payable, Sox Testing, Internal Control, Audit, and Financial Control & Compliance, in various environments including third-party services, shared services, pharma industry, and captive operations. I seek to leverage my expertise and leadership to embrace new challenges and contribute to organizational and personal growth. I am committed to using my skills to build a successful career, achieve professional recognition and excel in teamwork.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Specialist
- Novartis
Hyderabad
01.2021 - Current
- A P2P Control Owner and Subject-Matter Expert (SME) for Novartis Financial Control Manual.
- Performing Sarbanes-Oxley (SoX) testing for Key control and Relevant control.
- Understanding the Business processes and activities to identify key risks and mitigating control deficiencies.
- Analysing and monitoring the control P2P transactional activities related to Invoice processing.
- Monitoring transactions executed by P2P’s processing teams to ensure compliance with NFCM, internal controls over finance reporting, and SOX 404 requirements.
- Executing the NFCM controls at the agreed frequency, schedule, and guidelines set by GFC&C & FC&C.
- Driving remediation of control failures by the agreed due date.
- Supporting internal and external auditors in assessing walkthroughs, Test of One, Control execution reports, and Segregation of duties.
- Coordinating with all stakeholders including FSC, BPO/ECI, Business Partners, FC&C, FCCR on compliance-related requirements.
- Skilful in formulating & preparing SOPs and suggestions for improvement in internal control system.
Associate
- Cargill Business Services
Bangalore
09.2017 - 05.2020
- Generating Speed Release reports for different environments.
- Perform Speed Release for regular invoices and credit notes & intercompany documents.
- Approving payments in CMM (Cash Management Module) for the payment processing.
- Handling escalations and ad-hoc requests in a timely manner.
- Perform an ACH report to ensure correct payment goes to vendors.
- Supplier management & communication – Responsible for answering supplier queries on invoices, payments as well as reconciliation of supplier statements.
- Sharing of best practices with team members to enable team performance.
- Participating in A/P projects under the direction of a supervisor (Continuous Improvement – Projects)
Process Developer
- Genpact
Hyderabad
03.2014 - 04.2017
- Processing Invoices (PO, Non-PO and Nursing), Check requests and Refunds using Oracle R12.
- Reconcile vendor statements and follow up diligently with vendors for invoice copies.
- Ensuring all the helpdesk queries are handled and responded to in a timely manner.
- Generating Hold report and resolving line and distribution variance holds.
- Perform Quality Check every day & perform second level quality check.
- Perform a check run and send the special handling report to the mailroom.
- Prepare various reports (Pending report, Agent Productivity report, and prelim report for check run and uploads report) and update Dashboard on a daily basis.
- Monitoring Invoice workflow to ensure meeting SLA.
Education
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - Pursuing -
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Hyderabad, India01-2025
Bachelor of Commerce - Financial Accounting
Utkal University
Bhubaneswar06-2013
Skills
- Control Testing
- Internal auditing
- Risk assessment
- Process improvement
- Expert problem solving
- Process optimization
- Advanced communication
Notable Credits
- Recipient of Star Performer title on four separate occasions within a year span due to exceptional quality and proficient work.
- Steadfast contributor throughout the 2016-17 year.
- Acclaimed with various accolades including appreciation awards, spotlight recognitions, and quarterly superiority accolades.
- Honoured as the Best Host of the Year by Toastmaster.
- Distinguished with an Excellence Award and a Certificate of Recognition for exceptional performance.
Language Known
- English
- Hindi
- Odia
Timeline
Senior Specialist
- Novartis
01.2021 - Current
Associate
- Cargill Business Services
09.2017 - 05.2020
Process Developer
- Genpact
03.2014 - 04.2017
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - Pursuing -
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Bachelor of Commerce - Financial Accounting
Utkal University
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