BS

BABY SHALINI

Accounts Payable Specialist Team Lead

Chennai, India

Work Experience

  • Accounts Payable Specialist Team Lead

    DHL Global Forwarding Freight Shared Services (India) LLP

    Apr 2018 - Apr 2023 -5 yrs

    India

    • Job Details:Managed payments and exchange rates for Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, ensuring timely and accurate transactions. Set up and maintained supplier accounts, creating new vendors and updating existing ones according to company policy. Processed various payment types (advance, urgent, daily, and monthly) with proper approvals. Executed payments via NEFT, RTGS, and cheques, adhering to due dates and ensuring accuracy. Uploaded payment run files in Citibank and Banamex bank, following customer-approved amounts and currencies. Ensured timely payments to vendors, avoiding late fees and penalties. Implemented controls to prevent errors and fraudulent activities, such as duplicate payments or payments to unauthorized vendors. Reviewed, verified, and processed invoices and payment requests. Reconciled customer accounts, investigating and resolving discrepancies in a timely manner. Identified and tracked outstanding payments, sending reminders to customers as needed. Cleared open items based on client requests. Participated in monthly client calls, discussing changes in SOPs and ensuring client satisfaction. Assisted with month-end closing and account reconciliations, contributed to improving AP processes and systems. Prepared prepaid expenses reports. Daily productivity tracker & volume analysis. Updating various tracker after MEC. Led the team with good manners and supported them in all situations.
  • Accounts Payable Senior Financial Associate

    Hewlett Packard

    Jan 2011 - Apr 2018 -7 yrs, 3 months

    India

    • Job Details:Processed 150 invoices per day, including PO and non-PO invoices with 99% accuracy. Verified accuracy and completeness of invoices, including billing information, quantities, and prices, matched PO invoices with GRN and coded non-PO invoices. Entered invoices into the accounting system, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures, ensuring timely and accurate payment processing. Maintained vendor schedules and provided timely and accurate information, clarified queries and resolved issues related to vendor invoices. Processed travel and expenses invoices in accordance with the company policy. Reviewed and verified employee travel expense reports and submitted for reimbursement. Recorded journal entries for AP, AR and other accounts, ensuring accuracy and compliance. Handled queries relating to travel & expenses queries. Delivered timely and error-free processing, meeting process SLAs. Tracked and reviewed invoice number in JBA tool, checking the status for paid suppliers. Raised credit notes for wrongly billed invoices or missing documents. Performed monthly reconciliation, prepared weekly reports and accrual reports. Processed weekly report on every Monday for the previous week. Accrual report will be received twice in a week for operation team. Analyzed team errors, identified root causes, and implemented action plans, recorded errors in CAPA to avoid future mistakes. Met SLAs and closed volumes before TAT, ensured accurate and timely processing of invoices and payments.
  • Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration

      Annai Veilankanni's College

      Jan 2011 

    Skills

    • Finance
    • SAP
    • Payments processing
    • Invoice Processing
    • General Accounting
    • General Ledger
    • JBA
    • Vendor Data Management
    • Record to report
    • Travel & Expenses
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    Languages

    • Tamil

      Fluent
    • English

      Fluent
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