VASU BHATEJA

• Indexing, invoice validation, and processing of invoices and other documents received from suppliers for payment.
• Supplier reconciliations and auditing activities.
• Preparing draft invoices, getting approvals on the same, and getting them finalized.
• Ensuring control over advances and aged items.
• Reviewed short-term change requests and contract variations with a focus on pricing adjustments, clause modifications, and alignment of contractual obligations to ensure compliance and risk mitigation.
• Pay vendors by monitoring contract terms, discounts, scheduling, and preparing the Fund Transfer template, resolving purchase orders, contracts, invoices, or payment discrepancies and documentation; ensuring credit is received for outstanding memos, and issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments.
• Review and process invoices, along with providing resolutions for the invoices and releasing the invoices for payment.
• Managing the PO, non-PO invoice processing, and 3-way match for PO invoices.
• Overseeing the review of supplier invoices and ensuring they correspond with the price list established in the agreement between the client and the supplier.
• Managing the identification and escalation of discrepancies or disputes with suppliers, which can be raised through email or by rejecting invoices with the relevant comment in the SirionLab tool.
• Purchase requisition and purchase order management, and addressing the issues in a timely manner, making follow-up for pending purchase orders.
• Gap analysis during supplier onboarding to identify the missing contracts and other documents.
• Identifying discrepancies in accounts payable.
• Managing the issuance of credit and debit memos.
• Client’s face, understanding their goals, and deciding if or how the needs can be met.
• Handling the preparation and regular updates of SOPs and training resources.
• Managing the MIS reporting to the client, i.e. Daily invoice status report, weekly invoice status report, dunning report, monthly dashboard, etc.
• Managing and driving billing dispute resolution, and governance discussions with both clients and vendors.
• Handled accounts receivable (AR) invoices and AR receipts, optimizing cash flow and ensuring timely payments.
• Managing the billing process for the Japan and Australia region.
• Established training for the new resources for excellent customer service and providing feedback.
• Being part of the implementation stage for the onboarding of the prospective client.
• Managing the team by coordinating, sharing recognition, and supporting company-wide objectives.

Projects Handled:

• Engaged in a project of creating the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) document from scratch for all the holding suppliers.
• Engaged in the process of creating a new sandbox instance in the Sirionlab tool for demo purposes for new customers.
• Engaged in a project for the historical validation of invoices for one of the Tier 1 suppliers, which resulted in savings of around AUD 10 million.

• Identifying customer needs with access to shares, mutual funds and bonds
• Facilitated customers with investment objectives.
• Successfully learnt how to help customers with their financial needs and wants.

• Company Overview: Associated with Marriott International Hotel Services in Accounts Payable & Vendor Management team. This is the First Accenture Hospitality Services project in Accenture.
• Perform daily reporting which includes reissuing the returned payments and reconciliation of checks in the bank & PSAP.
• Tracing payments for the vendors and providing cleared checks images to the requestor.
• Managing the processing of international and domestic payments.
• In the Unclaimed Property process, our primary focus is on the Escheatment procedure for all 50 U.S. states. We also handle checks that have remained unclaimed by either the property owner or the vendor for six months or 180 days, at which point they are classified as stale-dated checks. If the vendor decides not to claim their funds, the money is refunded to the original property owner or to the state government, a process known as Escheatment.
• Also, cross trained in Vendor Admin Team we perform the following activities:
• Accurate and timely setup of essential vendors, including Intercompany, Owners, and 70PRJ.
• Quality check of vendor setup done by team members.
• Creating backup on Group Mailbox
• Maintain the Internal control points of the process activity.
• Error discussion and root cause analysis.
• Associated with Marriott International Hotel Services in Accounts Payable & Vendor Management team. This is the First Accenture Hospitality Services project in Accenture.