Srikanth Gajula
Bangalore
Summary
A research-driven individual with diversified knowledge of finance and accounts with team handling and client-facing experience. Being an analytical person, quick initiative-taking, who can manage a team and looking for a challenging environment that encourages continuous learning and creativity that provides exposure to innovative ideas and stimulates personal and professional growth.
Enthusiastic Process Lead with 14 years of experience working with Finance and Accounts in Multiple domains. Adept at critical problem solving and extensively knowledgeable about Process Migration and implementation, Settlements, Source to pay, Accounts payable/Receivable, Asset Reference Data applications.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Process Lead
Cargill Business Services India Pvt Ltd.
06.2017 - Current
- Billing and sending invoices to customer for payment within purview of my team
- Collaborate with other CBS center (Shared services), to provide documents/back up to review payment and cash application
- Stakeholders’ management (Regular connect with VMD, CSSP, Supplier enablement, Supplier relations, GR/IR, AMS, and payments team)
- Hands on experience in process deployment (Ariba to VIM invoice interface)
- Bridge between the Suppliers, CSSP, Supplier relation team, Supplier enablement team, Remedy team, VMD team and GR/IR team
- Accountable for structuring projects to meet customer and supplier goals and objectives
- Analyzing end to end PO invoices quires and providing resolutions
- Monitoring Ariba invoice interface errors and fixing at root level
- Successfully implemented on RPA project to avoid manual intervention in invoice generating increase the efficiency and accuracy
- Preparing dashboard and presenting to senior management
- Helping managers to identify the cost reduction opportunities and standard cost analysis
- Interacting with Suppliers, Merchants, and Brokers on regular basis requesting Contract and Pricing details
- Persuade customers to pay amounts due on credit accounts, damage claims, or non-payable checks, or to return merchandise
- Provide overall planning and support to management by developing and implementing procedures and by scheduling work within team
- Ensure all interfaces between Jupiter and Lynx are conducted within guidelines set in SLAs Review and monitor all the settlements in Lynx, report the failure to respective team
- Assist management with special projects
- Preparing Daily dashboard, daily volume, and enterprise matrix reports
- Special processing of invoices as request by Business units
- Providing training to the new joiners and Conducting risk awareness sessions for all new Joiners
- Vendor Payment Verification and making sure payment has been credit to correct vendor
- Involve in understanding the criticality of the issues, analyzing, and solving them on time and meeting the SLA as per Business requirement
- Conducting daily team huddle and discussing the new scenarios, errors, volumes, and plan for the day of completing the work.
Team leader
Tata consultancy services
09.2015 - 04.2017
- Allocating daily jobs and workloads
- Training new team members
- Billing and sending invoices to customer for payment within purview of my team
- Smart in managing project deliveries in a timely manner involving seamless onsite/ offshore coordination and transparent communication with all stakeholders at all phases
- Identify opportunities and recommend changes to improve processes & procedures
- Addressed escalated Accounts Payable and receivables issues raised by employees, vendors, and customers
- Managing team performance and progress
- Enforcing all company approved policies and procedures
- Implementing new initiatives and making sure all staff understand them
- Taking action to correct and staff shortcomings
- Managing and monitoring staff attendance
- Giving prompt and accurate information on individual staff member performance
- Ensuring a clean, safe and friendly working environment
- Cross-trained and provided back-up for other client service teams when needed.
Senior Analyst
Northern trust Services Pvt Ltd
01.2011 - 09.2015
- In depth market knowledge of various asset classes (Fixed income, Equity, Derivative instrument, Hedge funds and Mutual funds) and related Reference data
- Industry Knowledge - Knowledge of financial instruments, Reference Data business & regulations
- Investigation of Reference data queries and critical client issues
- Ensure Day to Day SLAs are met with required quality
- Work allocation to analyst and progress monitoring to ensure SLAs are met
- Identify and immediately address all issues in a constructive way with the appropriate person
- Take ownership over process issues as they arise and contribute as SME
- Perform Route Cause Analysis of Errors and suggest controls
- Take ownership and accountability of a query/ issue until successful closure
- Responsible for new hire training/communicate training feedback to TL/SM
- Ensure documentation of the process activities is in line with the organizational/audit standards of documentation
- Assist TL /Manager in conducting Audits and any other Initiatives
- Manage error logs and perform Root Cause Analysis to address issues
- Identify and communicate errors
- Follow audit norms, reporting deviations / suggesting improved controls, Improvements
- Report on EOD metrics in an accurate and timely manner
- Ability to Handle, Escalate and resolve queries in a timely manner
- Active involvement in capturing process changes/updates and developing workflows based on requirement
- Good working knowledge of Bloomberg, Reuters, FT Interactive Data and DTC
- Hands on experience in handling critical queries and managing internal partner area expectations
- Team player and strong ability to manage competing priorities.
Market Analyst
Thomson Reuters
02.2010 - 01.2011
- Money & FX Market Analysis on Real-time basis
- Monitoring currency movements in the Money & FX market & making corrections on the suspect prices
- Analyzing daily, hourly and tick charts
- Follow up to DSOs to confirm on prices are valid or not
- Setting tolerance to the RICs.
Education
MBA in Finance -
NMIT college (Visvesvaraya Technological University)
B. Com in Accountancy -
SJM College Chitradurga, Kuvempu University
Skills
- Strong in stakeholder and people management
- Strong technical proficiency with web applications and MS Office
- Solid analytical skills and judgment – strong attention to detail Analytical skill,
- highly motivated and ability to work under pressure Ability to produce quality product to tight deadlines in a challenging environment
- Ability to provide premier client service by building strong relationships with internal counterparties
- Hands on applications SAP- TC2, TCD, TCL, VIM, ARIBA NETWORK, Tungsten, JDE, Lynx, and Jupiter
Timeline
Process Lead
Cargill Business Services India Pvt Ltd.
06.2017 - Current
Team leader
Tata consultancy services
09.2015 - 04.2017
Senior Analyst
Northern trust Services Pvt Ltd
01.2011 - 09.2015
Market Analyst
Thomson Reuters
02.2010 - 01.2011
MBA in Finance -
NMIT college (Visvesvaraya Technological University)
B. Com in Accountancy -
SJM College Chitradurga, Kuvempu University