Accounts Payable Specialist

RESUME

MOHAMMED KHAJA AHMED

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Glendale Heights, Mobile: 773-***-****

Illinois, United States Email:*****************@*****.***

Professional Experience

Accounts Payable specialist with 10 years of hands on experience with accounts payable leveraging SAP, Oracle, Ariba, Concur and many other company buildup tools. Possess in depth knowledge of accounts and project management. Played AR and AP team lead and managed 9 resources for R2R Intercompany. Managed 250 vendors for discount capturing and saved $500K monthly and worked on DPO reports, Accuracy reports and monthly dashboard call reports presenting status of entire process and deliverables of team.

Relevant Experience

Worked for TCS from 24th Jan 2018 till 5th August 2022

Designation: -Team lead for R2R Intercompany.

Worked for GENPACT from 31th May 2013 till 18th Jan 2018

Designation: - Senior Associate in Accounts Payable

TCS: - Responsibilities: R2R (Intercompany)

Work flexibly and effectively with team members and help team members in real time resolution of issues related to timely delivery, technical issues related to process and reports and issues related to stakeholders’ expectations.

Monitoring AR & AP mismatches between the intercompany, providing constructive solution to clear the mismatch.

Monitoring daily AP & AR flows between the companies, Settlements and payments process, receipts and payments application and to set and achieve demanding performance targets, improve team performance on key performance metrics. Like, on time delivery, speed of transition, team productivity and drive quality assurance.

Guiding the team in preparing the Intercompany reconciliation, helping them to solve the reporting issues.

Responsible to review all the intercompany reconciliation and provide constructive comments to team in preparing the accurate reconciliation.

Responsible for conducting training, monitoring their trainings & Knowledge test at each level and ensuring that they moved to production within the stipulated time.

Handling all day-to-day issues with Intercompany partner & Clients and solve them promptly and ensuring the proper controls to have smooth process.

Booking Accruals and adjustment entries at month end to avoid mismatches and to match the book with intercompany partner.

Performing validation checks to avoid OOBs, ICP None and JDE Offset between intercompany partners.

Responsible for smooth month end close.

Coordinating with client and auditors and providing data for audit Purpose.

Performing AR and AP automation and transferring data from JDE to HFM from WD1 to WD4.

Handling month end calls. Explaining customers on month close about achievements, issues and challenges.

Highlights:

Part of pilot process, successfully downloaded and stabilized the process with 6 months of period.

Smoothly handled day to day issues which are raised in process installation phase.

Played key role in preparing the learnings paths to train the team.

Managed and monitored the SOP creation project for Intercompany activities.

Successfully solved all day-to-day issues after the transformation of process.

Worked on process deviation to centralize the process.

Previous Role & Responsibilities in Genpact.

Worked in Global Reporting Team.

Responsible for monthly Reporting and preparing P2P dashboards.

Publishing the agreed monthly and weekly reports to Business and teams.

Create Monthly dashboards in Tableau and publish to Business.

Responsible for creating DPO Reports (Days Payable Outstanding)

Creating Various Reports in Ariba as per the business requirement.

Quality and Payments Team:

Quality check on all invoices (Daily Audit and rectification of errors on daily basis)

Working on Duplicate Audit to stop double payments.

Creating the payments for due invoices, managing the manual wire payments and working with bank and GL team to clear open items on time.

Managing the rejected payments and coordinating with GL Team, Bank, BU and Vendor Master Team to reissue the rejected payments.

Managing the Oct of cycle payments, working on Payment emails.

Preparing the Accuracy reports and publishing to the leads on monthly basis.

Following-up with vendors to clear the aged items (Working on aged item Global)

Giving the training to new joiners

Travel and Expense Team:

Auditing and approving the expenses claimed by the employees in GET/Concur Tool.

Responsible for taking care of the employee T&E claims & Travel helpdesk for Global (APAC, Europe and North America)

Handling customer queries (email and voice).

Invoice Processing Team:

Processing PO Invoices, Non-PO, Debit Note, and Credit Note & Payment Request Forms with approvals.

Daily report pulling and allocating as per the incoming volume.

Ensure all critical and utility invoices are processed on time and released for payments.

Sending reminder emails to requestors to approve within timeline to capture Discount on payments.

Ensure day to day activities completed as per SLA

Processing the urgent payment as per location request with finance approval

Applications Used:

SAP

JDE, Showcase, Trintech & GLI

Ariba

GET (Global Expense Tool) Concur

DAT (Duplicate audit tool)

Tableau (Reporting Tool)

MS-Office application

OCR

Education Qualification:

Information Technology in Project Management from Indiana Wesleyan University (2024)

MBA (Finance) from Aurora’s Management and Research Institute Osmania University (2012)

B. Com (Computers) from S.D Signodia College of Arts and Commerce

Osmania University (March 2010)

Intermediate from Datar Vocational Jr college (March 2007)

S.S.C from St Marks Boys Town High School (March 2005)

DECLARATION

I declare that the above-mentioned information is true and absolute correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date:

(MOHD KHAJA AHMED)

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