Kamali Muralidharan
Sugar Land,TX
Summary
Account Payable professional, always searching for opportunities to increase the business bottom line. Always willing to take up each assigned job as a challenge and to apply knowledge, skills and experience effectively. A competent finance professional with over 17+ years of in Accounts Payable, Financial Reconciliation and Commercial field.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounts Payable Supervisor
ICON Clinical Research
Chennai, Tamilnadu
03.2019 - 02.2022
- Handled APAC, EU, US and Docs entities and handling queries as per requirements
- Handling 30-member team which includes AP Associate, Sr AP Associate and AP Team Lead.
- Managed agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA) on Turn Around Time (TAT), Productivity and Accuracy in the process.
- Concentrating on customer satisfaction by providing timely service.
- Goal setting and development planning for Team based on Business requirement.
- Managing team performance and progress
- Monitoring performance of team members
- Providing feedbacks on team member by having regular one on one.
- Providing accurate review information on individual staff members to senior management.
- Ensuring clean and friendly environment for team members.
- Analyzing team production periodically.
- Being part of Oracle R12 Testing, iExpenses policy changes and Implementation.
- Successfully completed Project of Moving Wire to EFT.
- Supporting in Implementation on Kofax
- Active participations in Screening process for Candidates for AP Process
- Raising Job Requisition, handling all workday activities.
- Completing performance cycle for all team members in system.
- Participating in compensation part.
Accounts Payabale Team Lead
ICON Clinical Research
Chennai , Tamilnadu
02.2013 - 02.2019
- Handled EU entities and handling queries as per requirements (7 Member Team).
- Handling US Team and customers without any major escalations (10 Member Team).
- Concentrating on customer satisfaction by providing timely service.
- Allocating daily task and workloads within team to ensure business requirements are completed on time as expected
- Attending Citi Bank Calls to take up Issues from Team and get resolutions
- Maximum utilization of resources.
- Training new team members on policies as well as process.
- Training team members on their personal developments to fit in any future requirement
- Managing team performance and progress
- Constantly looking for ways to improve process without any deviation in current process
- Monitoring performance of team members
- Providing feedbacks on team member by having regular one on one.
- Providing accurate review information on individual staff members to senior management.
- Ensuring clean and friendly environment for team members.
- Trained senior team members on metrics and QC, also reviewing them to make improvements in process.
- Analyzing team production periodically.
- Acting as a resource for other staff members, in their absence if required.
Accounts Payable Clerk, Sr
ICON Clinical Research
Chennai , Tamilnadu
10.2011 - 01.2013
- Handling IDS 2 Member (IDS TEAM)
- Took over the Australia, New Zealand, Lithuania and Timaq in a week time, trained a person and monitoring as well.
Accounts Payable Assistant
ICON Clinical Research
Chennai , Tamilnadu
07.2010 - 10.2011
- Transition of US - AP process from UST
- Taking care of I-expenses for the US employees.
- Auditing them as per the SOX compliance.
- Any queries in auditing, dropping an email to the respective employee and audit them after clarification.
- Processing the invoices in Triboni and sending them for coding/Approval as per the details provided during the transition.
- Importing the invoices from Triboni to oracle twice a week.
- AP payment on every Monday, checking if all invoices are approved and validated in oracle.
- Uploading the ready to pay invoices into CITI Direct and sending for first level approval.
- Checking if the approval for payment done on time.
- Making the Employee reimbursement on every Wednesday. Preparing the Direct Deposit List and send it to the payroll team so that the employees get the reimbursement through Pay roll.
- Reconciliation every day.
- Sending reminders to the people for coding/approving for the Invoices there in the Individuals Inbox more than a week.
- Checking the rejected Inbox and taking necessary action.
- Checking IDS US Inbox daily and replying the queries on time.
Senior Analyst
Flextronics
Chennai , Tamilnadu
01.2008 - 07.2010
- Getting statement of accounts from the critical suppliers globally and providing the updated Status twice a month
- Procuring Missing Invoice copies if any and arrange them to book in the System
- Coordinating with the Site and the resolution team to resolve any block for payments
- Forecast for weekly Payments to Suppliers
- Solving any payment Issues to the suppliers.
- Providing the Remittance advice to the supplier and wherever possible atomizing the same
- Making a detailed analysis for payment delays and fixing up the problem.
- Working with Global commodity manager for any issues with Suppliers.
- Other Services like converting the suppliers to EDI, arranging for vendor Portals, checking on some tools which we use regularly and making necessary arrangements for fix if any issues.
Process Executive
Xansa
Chennai , Tamilnadu
04.2006 - 12.2007
- Full time Quality Auditor for the below processes
- Focusing on, implementing and supporting process improvement initiatives
- MIS Lead for the team with respect to Metrics such as Error ratio of disputes team, daily report of pending to do Queries, Production of Query members on daily basis.
- Internal Process Trainer and ensure effective cross training and training for the new members in the team.
- Giving regular updates through mails to the team to attain less error ratio.
- Amending the contracts in CCS for the first-time match to decrease the incidences rates.
- Resolving disputed invoices.
- Analyzing the error done by invoice processing team and rectifying
- Reporting and initiating process improvements
- Created action plan for mitigation of repeatable errors.
- Consistently attaining targets and Quality in disputes.
- Creating and maintaining process documentation as applicable
- MIS Lead for the team with respect to Metrics such as Daily Production of Team members on daily basis.
- Acting as POD HEAD for Invoice Processing of seven members Team.
- Processing as per the specified operating procedures
- Maintaining consistency in delivering maximum output with efficiency
- Strictly adhering to meeting deadlines specified in the SLA
- Focusing on, implementing and supporting process improvement initiatives
- Consistently attaining targets with a smaller number of times.
- Creating and maintaining process documentation as applicable
- MIS Lead for the team with respect to Metrics such as production of Team members on daily basis
Process Associate
Unilever Shared Services
Chennai , Tamilnadu
06.2004 - 03.2006
- Handling primary freight payments
- Handling secondary freight payments
- Handling claims recovery from transporters
- Played major role in automation of freight payments
- Monthly MIS reporting on distribution cost
- Handling queries from transporters, branches & profit centers
Education
Master of Commerce - Accounting
Ethiraj College For Women
Chennai 10.2003
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Ethiraj College For Women
Chennai09.2001
Skills
- Workflow Management
- Telephone Etiquette
- Management
- Issue Escalation
- Accounts Payable
- Mentoring
- Proficient in [Software]
- Accounting
- Team Supervision
- Payment Tracking
- Invoice Processing
- Finance
- Bookkeeping
- Month-End Closings
- Data Management
- Invoice Coding
- Bill Auditing
Accomplishments
- Got Inspire Award for Excellence in Execution
- Got Inspire Award for Collaboration
- Pat on the Back Award:
✓ For doing Export and Rejections in a phased manner.
✓ For handling disputes efficiently and reducing the queries.
✓ For achieving consistent production. - Done well card
✓ For taking up export rejection in short period of time and doing it
without any errors on daily basis.
Timeline
Accounts Payable Supervisor
ICON Clinical Research
03.2019 - 02.2022
Accounts Payabale Team Lead
ICON Clinical Research
02.2013 - 02.2019
Accounts Payable Clerk, Sr
ICON Clinical Research
10.2011 - 01.2013
Accounts Payable Assistant
ICON Clinical Research
07.2010 - 10.2011
Senior Analyst
Flextronics
01.2008 - 07.2010
Process Executive
Xansa
04.2006 - 12.2007
Process Associate
Unilever Shared Services
06.2004 - 03.2006
Master of Commerce - Accounting
Ethiraj College For Women
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
Ethiraj College For Women
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