Maheshwari Thiyagarajan
Old Bridge
Summary
Solutions-oriented business analyst possessing unique combination of business analysis, quality assurance testing and applications development experience in top-tier organizations. Solid sql query writing skills paired with familiarity of visualization tools and techniques. Successful provider of financial services with several years of comprehensive experience.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounts Payable & Purchasing Co-Ordinator
Brisco Brands
11.2025 - Current
- Managed portfolio of 60+ vendors, streamlining invoicing process and reducing overdue payables by 20%.
- Processed over 250 invoices monthly, achieving 90% on-time payment rate.
- Administered timely bill processing by scheduling check payments prior to due dates.
- Reviewed and audited all vendor invoices for accuracy before processing approvals.
- Maintained vendor relationships by resolving discrepancies through effective communication.
- Monitored chargeback issues from factors and coordinated resolutions with team.
- Collaborated with sourcing and purchasing teams on garment procurement processes.
- Generated ad-hoc reports including open orders, ETA, and allocation reports for team analysis.
AR, Credit and Collection Specialist
The Marx Companies
01.2025 - 10.2025
- Oversee all credit & collection activities, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Make independent credit decisions within designated approval levels, establishes new line of credits.
- Coordinated collection efforts on delinquent accounts, conducted high-volume phone outreach to recover overdue payments.
- Maintained 350+ wholesale client accounts, issuing timely notifications for past-due invoices to expedite payment collection.
- Monitor performance of outsourced collection’s functions, thereby maintaining accurate collection logs.
- Evaluate and maintain credit insurance policy by working closely with Insurance Provider.
- Communicate with vendors to maintain vendor’s certificate of insurance, food safety certificates and audit certificates.
- Submitted FedEx claims and managed credit card chargeback disputes to ensure proper resolution.
- Compiled reports to analyze and present the position of the company’s receivables for informed decision-making.
- Became go-to person for explaining in easy-to-comprehend language to customers of diverse backgrounds.
Accounts Receivable Specialist
S & S Brokerage Inc Dba S & S Logistics
08.2021 - 01.2025
- Analyzed and reported to the Management team about outstanding collection due across regional offices.
- Reconciled profiled customer accounts and negotiated for quicker payment processes.
- Resolved over 90% of the receivables that were more than 100 days past due through constant follow up efforts.
- Managed 850+ active customer portfolios, overseeing revenue generation exceeding $50M.
- Performed cash flow analysis on customer profiles to determine the risk involved in extending the line of credit.
- Regular collaborations with Operations team to have efficient functioning of AR Process in B2B.
- Identified and reported delinquent customer accounts to Collections Department for timely follow-up.
- Onboarded more than 200 new customers into the accounting system after validating their Credit Report.
- Strong working knowledge of credit reporting systems like Credit Safe.
- Extensively worked on verifying POD, vendor bills and rate confirmation documents in Procure to Pay process.
- Arranged special Vendor bills for Quick -pay or ACH/CHECKS.
- Prepared monthly financial reports of S&S Regional Offices (Onshore & Offshore).
Integration and Testing Professional – Senior Engineer
Alcatel-Lucent Pvt Ltd (NOKIA)
05.2012 - 04.2015
- Associated with Microsoft Media Room – Mobile Application Project, tested on smartphones and devices.
- Extensively involved in analyzing Business Requirements, creating testing strategies, testing plans and prepared detailed test cases for the Application under Test (AUT).
- Deployed VOD assets as per the client’s specifications like grants for recording, play and download.
- Encoded and trans coded the VOD assets for playing the recorded contents in client devices.
- Developed test plans and test case documents required for the validation of features like Social Networking, Live channel, Parental Control, Companion devices, Download and playback, SVOD, Performance related scenarios.
- Conducted unit, functional, user acceptance, integration, system, performance, sanity, compatibility, and security testing of client/server and web-based applications.
- Performed Integration and Regression testing to check compatibility of new functionality with the existing functionalities of the application.
- Wrote test cases, implemented and added versions and iterations using HPQC Test Manager for positive, negative and End-to-End Test cases.
- Coordinated with the development team to fix the defects.
- Participated in Sprint review meetings to present testing status and discuss next steps for continuous project alignment.
- Owned the quality assurance lifecycle, working closely with developers and product managers to ensure feature readiness and stable production releases.
- Tools/Products/Applications: IPTV Microsoft Media Room Platform, STB Clients, Mobile Applications on Android and IOS devices.
- Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, HP Quality Center (QC), Bugzilla, Redmine.
Test Engineer
Alcatel-Lucent Pvt Ltd (NOKIA)
06.2010 - 04.2012
- Worked in Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Groups (VNPT) IMS Call Control project for the validation of IMS operations support solution in collaboration with different products of IMS platform.
- Contributed to the validation of functional testing of various features like subscriber provisioning, basic call flow and call forwarding, transfers and voice mail services.
- Conducted manual testing on PSTN phones and simulation apps, compared actual and the expected results and logged the defects.
- Performed defect reporting and tracking using JIRA and followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update defect status to the project team.
- Analyzed test metrics and submitted reports tracking status and progress of testing efforts.
- Tools/Products/Applications Movial client, POTS, SIP phones and PSTN, Wire shark, Test link.
Inventory Manager
Alcatel-Lucent Pvt Ltd (NOKIA)
06.2010 - 04.2012
- Maintained inventory of over 2000 ALU Lab assets in LABMAN (Inventory Management Software) on a regular basis.
- Prepared detailed reports on inventory operations, stock levels, and adjustments.
- Tracked records of asset supplies lent or borrowed from other business units.
- Performed periodic analysis to predict potential inventory problems.
- Participated in internal audits, active member of company's External Audit.
- Oversaw portfolios of over 2000 lab assets.
- Managed lab asset accounting processes, ensuring compliance and accuracy in reporting.
Education
Master of Arts - Psychology
University of Madras
India05-2016
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Anna University
India05-2010
Skills
- Business process improvement
- Process mapping
- Gap analysis
- Systems analysis
- Solutions development
- Functional specifications
- Business case validation
- Decision-making
- Problem solving
- Team collaboration
- Clear communication
- Communication skills
Timeline
Accounts Payable & Purchasing Co-Ordinator
Brisco Brands
11.2025 - Current
AR, Credit and Collection Specialist
The Marx Companies
01.2025 - 10.2025
Accounts Receivable Specialist
S & S Brokerage Inc Dba S & S Logistics
08.2021 - 01.2025
Integration and Testing Professional – Senior Engineer
Alcatel-Lucent Pvt Ltd (NOKIA)
05.2012 - 04.2015
Test Engineer
Alcatel-Lucent Pvt Ltd (NOKIA)
06.2010 - 04.2012
Inventory Manager
Alcatel-Lucent Pvt Ltd (NOKIA)
06.2010 - 04.2012
Master of Arts - Psychology
University of Madras
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Anna University