Pristen Fernandes +91 9945350300 E-mail: pristen.fernandes@gmail.

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Summary and Objective: A self-motivated professional with analytical and communication skills having an understanding towards the value of time, cost and quality of work, delivering strategic perspective to operations facilitating continual growth, future change initiatives and capable of multi-tasking.Looking out for a position wherein I can utilize my skills gained so far in the field of accounts, financial reporting and analysis. Total Experience: 5 years. Professional Experience: Brady Corporation India pvt limited Designation: Senior Financial Executive Being a part of Accounts payable process, I am performing daily activities associated with Payments process and handling Team of 3 members performing day to day activities of the process. Responsible for handling Escalations and preparing financial reports, Analyzing debit balance in vendor ledger accounts and vendor statements Reconciliation. Roles and Responsibilities BACS Payment- This is a daily payment run which is released through the SAP application.Maintaining a good quality review and thorough investigation before the payment is released. ACH and Wire Payments-The ACH and wire payment is used to pay the Legacy vendors. Also the payroll payment is initiated through Wires. Payment Reject and Return Statement- On a daily basis the payment reject and return statements are extracted from the bank site. Doing a thorough analysis and taking necessary action on the returned and rejected payments on a daily basis. Clearing the Interim Account- On a regular basis the Interim accounts maintained by the Accounts Payable (Refunds Payable and Direct Debit) needs to be cleared and on a monthly basis Co-coordinating with GL Team and clearing the Outgoing Payments Interim account. Handling Vendor discrepancy resolution mails and calls in resolving their invoice payment related queries. Responsible in handling escalations and study the root cause using 5 why analysis or problem solving methodologies. Vendor Statement reconciliation: Responsible in reconciliation of the vendor / supplier statements i.e. reconciliation of vendor ledger and company ledger and find out the invoices status and provide the invoices status information to vendor/ supplier. Request for the missing invoices if any. Preparing the Accounts payable related reports: Purchase order discrepancy report (parked report), Goods receipt invoice receipt (GRIR) report, MRBR (material review and block release report), Non Po invoices approval report. From March 2010 - Till date

Preparing the Financial reports of Accounts payable in the month end i.eAccrual report, Debit balance report, Accounts payable ageing report and discount loss report. Analyzing the company GRIR (goods receipt invoice receipt) in order to reduce the GR accumulated in the companys balance sheet. Analyzing the debit balances existing in the vendor ledger account and reducing it by getting in touch with the vendor. Arranging and chairing the weekly team meetings, focusing on targets and achievements and streamlining the process issues.

Efficiency projects: Working on the direct debit balance project in order to reduce the debit balances in the vendor account and find out the loop holes if any. Worked on the read software project which was implemented in order to make the invoices getting posted automatically and eliminate the hardcopy scanning work which saves 2 - 3 hours daily compared to manual posting of the invoices and hard copy scanning of the invoices. Application Exposure: SAP System Inforcom tool (legacy system) Read software Application tool Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Word Achievements: Promoted as a SPOC (single point of contact) on the read software project.

HP (Hewlett Packard) Designation: ProcessAssociate

Aug 2008 to March 2010

Being worked in the reverse logistic team below are my roles and responbilities Roles and Responsibilities Validating the claims filed by the partners through eClaim portal and publishing it to partner for their information, simultaneously publish the same report to Logistics and Channel Operation team for Investigation. After received the Investigation report proceed to issue credit note in case of valid claim, if not rejecting the same by intimating the partner with Investigation report received from logistics team. Setting up Weekly call to resolve the cases where partner not convinced with the Investigation report.

Efficiency Projects Financial Claim-Physical Claim Overlap: Duration: 6 months Since partners were involved and revenue has to be recovered from them it was very crucial to be accurate to avoid losing partners in long run. Under this a dashboard was prepared for both financial claim and physical claim teams and using a unique combination key we tried finding orders which was given discounts initially and later was claimed with physical claim team for either credit or replacement. Impact: This project helped to prevent the revenue leakage from both the teams using the database to avoid duplication

Educational Qualification: Perusing MBA in Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), Mysore. B.com, SDM college [NAAC A Grade], Karnataka University, 2008, Honavar. PUC, Don Bosco college, Board of Higher Secondary Education,2005Panjim, Goa. SSLC, Holy Rosary convent school, Honavar.

Personal Profile: Date of Birth :August 5th 1987 Nationality : Indian Marital Status : Single Gender :Male Languages Known :English, Kannada, Hindi and Konkani Favorite Pursuits : Playing, swimming, listening to music Permanent Address : Udyam Nagar, Durgakeri, Honavar 581334, Karwar dist.

Place: Bangalore Date:

(Pristen Fernandes)