Accounts payable executive

Akshara Rao ***********@*****.*** +91-637*******

Career profile

An ambitious and committed individual skilled with overall 4 years of experience in the department of Accounts Payable, having worked at Renault Nissan as a contractor for 2 years and in McKinsey as an employee involved in payments to Indian, Australian and New Zealand Vendors; my field of expertise includes creation and processing of invoices, prompt mail to Vendors & my clients on successful and timely payment, doing emergency fund transfer through Oracle. Solely involved in month end closing of accounts, running reports and mailing managers on successful completion of month close activities. Connecting through zoom with leads and clients to answer recon related queries and daily updation on work completed to leads and management.

Work experience

August 2018 to July 2020

Company Name: Mckinsey Global Services

Clients: Indian, Australian New Zealand Staff and Vendors.

Role: Accounts Payable Executive solely managing the entrusted location.

Creation and processing of invoices, following up on approval chain completion and mailing clients and vendors on duration taken and successful payment of invoices.

Prompt booking and payment of capital and revenue expenditure. (Building Rent, Electricity, Telephone & Internet bills, Funds for new projects treated as top priority)

Super Emergency payments involving lump sum transfer done through oracle with TL and manager approval.

Ensuring clients who are enquiring on emergency payments are informed of payment with proof of receipt and Barcode for tracking on coupa.

Creation, uploading and attachment of CSV files for invoices with multiple lines between 20 to 100 and above for quick and time saving process.

Closing of accounts starts on 28th therefore mailing clients to submit priority invoices pertaining to that month so booking will be done on 31st and 1st of every month.

Involved in the allocation and processing of invoices through the new automation process and training the BOT software on invoice processing and reaching out to the automation team on any errors faced for smoothening the newly implemented process.

Reporting to management through Zoom daily on the number of invoices processed through coupa and BOT, the number of mail queries solved and on any ageing outstanding issues.

Mid-month meeting with other teams(General Accounting team, Payments team, Clients, Quality Assurance Team ) to discuss on any outstanding payments or entries to be created or on new updates or changes.

Providing full assurance and cooperation to keep my clients satisfied on the timely completion of any issues that may arise and informing them through mail of the same.

During Extreme volume I provide or request support and train or get trained by colleagues with less volume through zoom to clear the volume by deadline of that particular location.

Work experience -June 2016 to August 2018

Client Name: Renault Nissan Automotive India Pvt Ltd.

Multiple Contractors: Xerox, Conduent, Team Lease.

Role: Account Payable - Invoice Processing & Vendor Reconciliation

Responsible for ensuring payments are promptly made to suppliers on time.

Booking invoice on FIFO basis so as to ensure payments of older receipts are accounted before time bar.

Manual Calculation in Excel with Formulae for verification, correction of Invoice Values.

Getting in touch with suppliers to answer their query and mail them immediately regarding mismatch in invoice values.

Tracking of invoices on a daily basis for which PO have not yet been released and mailing them to concerned team for Booking and Payment Release.

Knowledge of different tax codes (14 % 12% 9% &18%) for different Vendors their State of Origin for accounting in GL account in case of Inter and Intra state invoices.

Checking PO prices in respective TCodes to book as per the lowest price to ensure profitability and cut down excess cost of parts accounted for in MIRO.

Picking the current PO with help of Material Document number (GRN) Verifying Quantity matches with invoice Unit Price Matches or is lower than Invoice for Invoice Booking.

Downloading of Process reports from MIR6 SE16 & ME23N for Vendor Reconciliation with the help of Pivot Table.

Key Skills

Able to work under pressure and weekends to complete backlog of invoices

Flexible to change process and support either GRN or MIRO or Automation or different teams during high volume to balance efficient and smooth flow of invoice on both sides.

Contributing to overall productivity on a daily basis with efficiency and accuracy.

Being a responsible and competitive staff to work with.

Timely completion of work entrusted to me on a regular basis.

Taking up challenging Tasks so as to learn new process and completing work with accuracy

Academic Qualifications

Patrician’s College of arts and science Adyar

M.Com Accounting and Finance 60% 2014-16

Shasun Jain college T.Nagar

B.com Corporate Secretaryship 62% 2010-13

St George’s Anglo Indian High School

High School 12th (Commerce stream) 70% 2009-10

Higher Secondary 10th 52% 2008

Achievements

At Conduent:

Eagle award for excellent performance and errorless process of invoices

Eagle Squad Award for timely completion of invoice during financial year end.

Appreciation from management for moving high number of invoices.

At Mckinsey:

For extending and finishing work load on Weekdays and Weekends.

Had quickly learnt the process of multiple locations and provided support when necessary.

Trained multiple people recruited into Asia team when senior staff left the firm.

Goals

I am looking for a company who is ready to Invest in me and train me. These are my life Goals since high school to work in the finance department, there are Various activities like Bank Reconciliation posting of Journals & Ledgers, creation of Vouchers creation of Provisions for Capex and Opex(expenditure) and many others things which I am ready to learn. It was a dream come true to work in a multinational car company like Renault-Nissan and to be a part of Mckinsey the Number 1 Consulting Firm in the world currently, I thanked my HR for the bright opportunity at the firm; but unfortunately I had to leave due to personal reasons. I am on the lookout for better learning opportunities, a chance to move forward to be in a better position in my work life. I Hope you pick me and give me that chance to build my career in Finance and Accounts as I am goal oriented and dedicated to the work entrusted to me. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Personal Details

Mother’s Name: R.Malathy

Permanent Address: 4B Arunachalam Nagar 1st floor Keelkattalai Chennai-600117

D.O.B: 17-11-1990

Gender: Female

Languages Known: English,Tamil.

Nationality: Indian

Hobbies: Reading books, news, foreign affairs, travel

&photography.

Declaration:

I Akshara Rao, residing at Chennai do hereby declare, above stated information is true to my knowledge.

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