Sushma M
Bengaluru
Summary
Top-performing, highly skilled Contract Specialist with more than 9 years of experience of reviewing and monitoring company contracts and performing contract related activities. Good interpersonal skill with good team leadership and a team player. I have a significant experience in writing and analytical skills as well as thorough understanding of legal aspects related to the business contracts. Evaluated and monitored contract performance to determine the need of contract amendments or extensions and compliance with contractual obligations, reconciling, process management with excellent interpersonal skills with problem solving, logical thinking and individual contributor for all the projects with best performance overall.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Sourcing Consultant
Wells Fargo International Solutions Private Limited
05.2023 - Current
- Responsible for the creation of contracts for the technology and the corporate security team with the renewals, extension or any new addition or termination to be added in the contract
- This involves the interaction with the legal team for the scrutiny of the terms and conditions of the contract
- After approaching agreed terms from both sides the contract is then shared to the respective LOB for their approval
- Involve in all departments and audit appropriately for the services
- Oversee the execution of the contract /agreement and the maintenance/ renewal of the existing contracts under the preview of concerned department
- Coordinate with the vendors on the delivery of items or services ordered
- Development and renewal of all the procurement related agreements or contracts are coordinated, planned and executed appropriately on-time
- The Third Party Risk Assessment (TPRM) framework is been carried out as well in order to vary or review of a vendor to understand the practises which can assess the potential third party risk and identify vulnerabilities
- Process further for the submission of the purchase order for the contact to go live in action for the contract that are FP, Milestone and Time and materials
- Dealing with indirect procurement which helps to run the daily operations of the business which is not critical to the business.
Senior Business Support Executive
Brickwork India Pvt Limited
03.2020 - 04.2023
- Led operations of contract review for vendors to review and sign, creation of purchase orders and scrutiny of payments for Novartis Ophthalmology in Basel, Switzerland
- Maintain the updated list of the contracts and the purchase goods, materials, components or services in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets
- Deliver briefs, updates and reports as and when required in SharePoint and SAP applications
- Highly skilled at building and maintaining effective and productive relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers
- Oversee all the operation related activities at the Ophthalmology entity
- This includes Purchase order creation for the services procured
- Maintained contact with clients and quickly addressed any questions
- Keeping accurate records and financial records
- Successfully balanced multiple roles working cross functional with the accounts payable on invoice verifications
- Manage the travel and hotel expenses of the clients in Concur applications.
Senior Process Associate
Continuserve Softeck India Private Ltd.
09.2014 - 11.2016
- Experienced in indirect procurement with the office supplies, travel management, professional services
- Receive contracts for review and the risk assessment from the business owners for the creation of the purchase orders
- Working on bank reconciliations, ledger to sub-ledger reconciliation of Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable, Intercompany reconciliation for regions US- Japan- Korea- China-UK
- Experienced in SAP to post the journal entries as well as closing the period n month end basis
- Preparing of Fixed Assets Reconciliation during the month-end
- Responsible for the Intercompany Settlements and updating of Exchange Rates
- Preparing of the weekly and monthly reports for the expenses, reconciliations
- Good working knowledge of the Expense Reimbursement System using a well-known application ‘Concur’
- Providing training and guidance to the new hires
- Working on process improvements and discuss with the team to implement the new ideas
- Preparing the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) new joiners and updating that frequently for easy reference of team members and
- Ensuring all tasks is completed as per the turnaround time and there-by meeting the SLA
- Supporting the Accounts Payable team for assigning and processing of invoices using an application named ‘Digital One’.
Deals Specialist (Project accounting Analyst)
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2013 - 08.2014
- Deals with direct procurement of acquiring products and services to be provided to the customers
- Responsible for setting up of new projects, renewals and expansions as per the conditions laid down in the contracts in Oracle R12 application for various regions like (AMER, APAC and EMEA)
- Validation of information between Oracle and its customer with their requirements in the contract as per the specific LOBs (Line of Business) approval
- Allocating funds (booking) to the active approved projects to generate Time and Expense
- Run WIP (Work In Progress) report once the PO (purchase order) number is obtained
- Worked on reconciling the billable expenses interfaced from Oracle Projects, Entering or Updating Fixed Price Invoice/Revenue Event
- Streamlining (LRI: Labour Cost-Revenue–Invoice) and successful closure of the Project ensuring the SLA (Service Level Agreement) is met at the required turnaround time
- Reporting the profit and loss accruals to Local Country Finance Heads and set-up meetings to discuss the same and simultaneously handle the queries of Internal Auditors
- Triage the tickets in the queue globally round the clock as per their regions.
Financial Analyst
Hewitt Packard – Nestle Waters North America
01.2011 - 02.2013
- Working on RMS (Route Management System), Citrix Application & CISCO e-mail manager and MS Office Applications
- Constantly monitor the procedural changes and update the team same time
- Taking care of customer’s issues via emails & calls in Accounts Receivable process
- Handling Customer queries of various requirements and providing effective solution to customer’s concerns and also updating them
- Checking the overdue and advanced payments of the customers and assigning the issue to the concerned teams for further actions.
Education
Masters of Business Administration – Human Resource Management -
Annamalai University, Bangalore
01.2013
Bachelor of Commerce – Human Resource Management -
Surana College, Bangalore
01.2011
Skills
- SharePoint
- SAP
- MS Outlook
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
- Oracle R12 applications
- Concur applications
- MS Office
- FUSE application
- Zinc Application
- SAP Ariba
- Strategic Sourcing
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Kannada
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Senior Sourcing Consultant
Wells Fargo International Solutions Private Limited
05.2023 - Current
Senior Business Support Executive
Brickwork India Pvt Limited
03.2020 - 04.2023
Senior Process Associate
Continuserve Softeck India Private Ltd.
09.2014 - 11.2016
Deals Specialist (Project accounting Analyst)
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2013 - 08.2014
Financial Analyst
Hewitt Packard – Nestle Waters North America
01.2011 - 02.2013
Masters of Business Administration – Human Resource Management -
Annamalai University, Bangalore
Bachelor of Commerce – Human Resource Management -
Surana College, Bangalore
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