Sumathi Shetty

A focused professional with offering 7+years of experience in leading teams, imparting trainings & accounts payable activities.

Skills in leading end-to-end operations, process, people, stakeholder and client management and ensuring completion of all activities within agreed SLAs, time & highest quality. Skilled at setting & meeting KPI targets, adhering to SLAs and planning areas of improvement or development. Contributed in Accounts Payable (AP) processes; managed vendor relations; ensured the timely, accurate processing of invoices, purchase orders, credit memos and payment transactions.

Impeccable record of motivating teams that excel in delivering business value and leading towards operations excellence. Exceptionally well organized with sound functional depth and conceptual understanding, collaborative mindset; possess excellent team building, communication, relationship management and analytical skills.

Senior Account Payable Associate - HAPAG LLOYD Global Services Pvt. Ltd.

(2016-11 - 2023-05)

• Managing day-to-day processing of Accounts Payable (AP) transactions to ensure that organizational finances are maintained in an effective, up-to-date and accurate manner
• Managed processing the PO & Non PO invoices of vendors in SAP system
• Collaborating with Team Leader to achieve KPIs and ensuring all SLAs are meet month on month
• Monitoring vendor invoice processing, vendor email queries; evaluating invoice with checklist and avoiding duplicate payment
• Ensuring accurate & proper maintenance of data for internal auditing and reconciled financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information
• Responding and effectively resolving escalated issues from employees or vendors regarding Accounts Payable (AP)
• Generating various reports and presenting the same to stakeholders for decision-making
• Leading & motivating teams to achieve their set goals and onboarding & imparting training to make them process efficient
• Contributing in process improvement projects to add business value to client
• Coordinating from the other teams about the payment details, for the approval of the invoices, vendor block team, invoices not being processed accurately, debit balance under the particular vendor code
• Shared payment status of invoices PO based as well as non PO based invoices
• payment/remittance details and copies to the supplier
• Managed all type of queries through email of the supplier & approver relating to the Payment of invoices of supplied goods & services
• Resolved suppliers queries regarding overdue invoices payments and coordinated with Payment Team for final payment of invoices
• Developed process PPT for training joiners as per functional plan and prepared training status to reporting manager
• Tracked performance status during training period
• Conducted training test on last day to examine their knowledge
• Supported in performance improvement plans to ensured better performance
• Led processing of PO and Non-PO

Banking Advisory Associate - Accenture solutions Pvt. Ltd.

(2023-05)

B. Com - University of Pune (2013)