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Santosh Divate

Mumbai

Summary

10+ years of expertise in the fields of Accountancy, AR & AP, OTC,Taxation, FP&A and operations management which helped to develop expert knowledge of Advance excel, SAP-S4HANA, Tableau & power BI which highly motivated to continue learning and improving craft.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Finance Executive

General Mills
05.2016 - Current
  • Reconciled and confirmed deduction invoices with payments and purchase orders, verifying details for accuracy and effortlessly handling critical datasets, pricing, quantities.
  • Disbursed and processed payables, verifying TDS and GST compliance and other important documentation.
  • Reviewed debits and credits deductions to rectify deficiencies and investigate nature and appropriateness.
  • Checked payroll, vendor payments, commissions and other accounting disbursements for accuracy and compliance.
  • Actively pursue status and payment of delinquent invoices with customers, via phone & e-mail contact, along with utilization of available web portals to document in SAP the pending or in-transit payments or unpaid status explanation.
  • Determine the reason for deductions with customers where supporting documentation not received, reason like damage goods, shortage & delay delivery.
  • Adhered to firm reporting deadlines with consistency and strategic task triage.
  • Analyzed financial statements against forecasts to prepare high-level price variance analysis.
  • Accounts Payable & Receivable system (SAP & S4hana) to retrieve customer invoice information & record customer response details on a timely basis for each customer interaction.
  • Improved resource utilization with data management systems, reducing costs through strategic coordination and contract analysis.
  • Reduced process discrepancies through measured implementation of performance reporting and data systems.
  • Developed strategic plans for day-to-day operations.
  • Produced reports on transactions with metrics for management and shareholders to understand company direction easily and transparently.
  • Utilized state-of-the-art accounting tools to record activities and keep up-to-date on taxable transactions.
  • Communicated with clients concerning outstanding payments and arranged for rectification.

Executive

BNP PARIBAS
05.2015 - 02.2016
  • Trade finance operations & Clients Transaction Processing.
  • Handled Trade Finance process under countries like Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia & Hong Kong and managed approximately 100+ invoice processing in single day for different region.
  • Handling SAP tool for Accounts payable function for billing & purchase Invoicing
  • Maintain all documentation with corrected deficiencies &all records of payments and update through system tool.
  • Preparing power point presentation
  • Acknowledge receipt of the Purchase Order by sending an excel sheet.
  • Daily day end flow check with Carry &Forwarding clients to avoid mismatch in the Lot Invoice process number.
  • Check & share the status on account for invoicing a day in advance of the Purchase Order scheduled day.
  • Managing workflow tools, data integrity reports, client requests, user queries.
  • Prepared annual data to determine metrics for operational performance.

Associate

TCS Pvt Ltd
02.2011 - 12.2013
  • Develop Mining database from the financial reports of the companies.
  • Data mining included to collect all financial news report form Bloomberg tool which have to analyze 50+ customer web sites on daily basic
  • Researching and analyzing financial reports to provide relevant information to client.
  • Understand the challenging methods of reporting under different accounting standards.
  • Researching and analyzing industries, companies, historical financial statements.
  • Reporting process status and update to senior manager.
  • Core responsibilities updating the Mining related information’s in tools like SAP, Bloomberg data base & Unified for given company tickers.
  • Manage and resolve the escalation and errors though mail and Call with client.
  • Responsible to maintain and achieve quality and production target.
  • Acquisition of concerned Financial Data through web-based sources and mail.
  • Analyses and automating the data against unique ID provided by the client and make.

Education

Master of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Thakur College of Science And Commerce
Mumbai
08.2010

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Thakur College of Science And Commerce
Mumbai, India
06.2008

Skills

  • Performance Metrics Analysis
  • ERP System Implementation
  • Financial Reports
  • Data Inputting
  • Decision-Making
  • Data Analysis
  • Work Planning
  • Stakeholder Relationship Management

Accomplishments

  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop deduction summary spreadsheets.
  • Supervised team of 13 staff members.
  • Collaborated with cash application and service team in the development of sales query reduction
  • Achieved Team excellence award by completing on-time payment data base with accuracy and efficiency in two just quarters.
  • Documented one point lesson for third party and resolved 1.6 mm of pending deduction debits which led to very good & successful year end close.

Certification

  • Certified in Bussines effective bossiness communication & MS excel advance & Tableau in 2021 & 2023
  • Certified in AML & SAP reconciliation by BNP Paribas in year 2015.
  • Certified in Bloomberg Trade Tool by TCS in 2012

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)

Timeline

Senior Finance Executive

General Mills
05.2016 - Current

Executive

BNP PARIBAS
05.2015 - 02.2016

Associate

TCS Pvt Ltd
02.2011 - 12.2013

Master of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Thakur College of Science And Commerce

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Thakur College of Science And Commerce

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