Suguresh Shettar
Bangalore
Summary
Overall 14yrs of work experience with expertise in Accounts Payable process and Accounts Payable reporting. Efficient in MS office tools – Word, PowerPoint & Excel. Dashboard activities including the preparation of monthly operation review packs (KPI)for review with Senior management. Worked on System Transformation projects – Ariba to NetSuite, SAP to NetSuite. Reporting activities – Non-standard Payment approval, Cash forecasting, monthly PO vs Non-PO Analysis reporting. ERP knowledge - SAP R3, NetSuite, Ariba, VIM tool.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Finance Analyst
OpenText Software India Pvt Ltd.
Bangalore
08.2019 - Current
- Currently working with the Global AP team and taking care of reporting activities such as KPI reporting, on-time payment, and late payment analysis, SLA matrix reporting, leading the duplicate identification team, and serving as the SME for the NSPTA process.
- Responsible for the timely updating of the AP SOP.
- Point of contact for Autonomy payments & reconciliation.
- Duplicate payment analysis.
- SME for Non-Standard Payment Term Approval. NSPTA process is internal process within the organization which involve review and approval for the early payment of an invoice, PO or vendor.
- SME for the AP team and working with 8 members of the team, and ensuring co-ordinate with the team on processing of PO and non PO invoices within TAT.
- Support ad hoc requests from Audit on the controls.
- Responsible for preparing accrual and month end adjusting entries.
- Reconciliation of vendor payments and accounting of invoices.
- Working with Controllership Team, taking care of Autonomy payments and reconciliation and ensure that entries made correctly.
- Supporting FP&A team on monthly & quarterly cash flow activity of vendor payments and ensure the monthly target being reached.
- Partnered with BU finance to provide monthly insights on Key Metrics like on time payment for the month, adherence to the non-po policy while processing, monthly volume, changes in SOP.
- Working with stakeholders and making them to understand on the adherence of the organization's standard payment and impact of early payments.
- Reporting post facto invoices on monthly basis and working towards reduction from deviations from the Financial Policy.
- Coordinating with respective team to understand the root cause and linking the request with Accruals, P&L account & Cash Flow.
- Ensure to meet the deadline for KPI reporting on monthly basis.
- Played role of tester during the system transition from Ariba platform to NetSuite and performed testing scenarios, validations of data migration and conducted training to team members to get them up to speed with the change.
- Co-ordinate with IT team and back-end team during transition for issues and challenges.
- Identifying and consolidating the challenges in the new enterprise system and working towards fixing so that transition can be implemented smoothly.
Finance Analyst
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Bangalore
06.2009 - 08.2019
- Part of Procter and Gamble's client accounts payable team and ensure the processing of PO and non-PO invoices within the specified SLA.
- Part of the Financial Unique Services (FUS) team, responsible for assisting with the reconciliation of intercompany general ledgers on the balance sheet.
- Preparation of ad hoc journal entries and accruals.
- Assisting with audit inquiries and ad hoc queries from various teams.
- Subject Matter Expert for the quality assurance and duplicate invoicing / payment detection process.
- Subject Matter Expert for the approval process of non-standard payments.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce -
Karnataka University
Dharwad, KarnatakaSkills
- KPI reporting
- Cash flow analysis
- Financial reporting
- Data analysis
- Audit support
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Quantitative analysis
- Relationship building
- Knowledge of ERP (enterprise resource planning) software
- MS office suite
- Flexible team player
Accomplishments
- The transition of the Non-Standard Payment approval process from a manual system to a web-based management system has been successfully executed.
- The enhancement of the duplicate identification process through the utilization of AI tools and macros has enabled us to highlight only the suspected line items.
- Implementation of an AI tool for calculation of on-time payment analysis and reporting led us in reduction of time spent from 8 hours to 1 hour monthly.
- Engaged in a project aimed at harmonizing payment terms, which will facilitate the standardization of the organization's payment framework and strengthens the cash flow position.
- Developed a macro file for the categorization of vendors based on grouping, as well as regional and country-specific segmentation.
- System transition team (Ariba to NetSuite) - Tester and trainer role.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information is given above is true and best of my knowledge.
Linkedin Profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sugureshshettar
Languages
Kannada
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Marathi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Certification
- Tally certified
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Finance Analyst
OpenText Software India Pvt Ltd.
08.2019 - Current
Finance Analyst
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
06.2009 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Commerce -
Karnataka University
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