Kumar Pawase

About Kumar Pawase

Finance professional with over 10 years of experience in financial planning, analysis…

Experience

1. Sr Specialist - Ap Payments (Sme)

   Smiths Detection

   Feb 2022 — Present · Pune, IN

   Led successful transition of end-to-end P2P process to in-house in a Shared Services Centrefor Australia and New Zealand (APAC region) and led the Payment pillar for the APAC region (AU,NZ, SG). Responsible for reviewing external Vendor and Intercompany Invoices & Payments. Communicating with cross-functional teams for process improvements, escalations, and BAUtasks. Review and prepare payment forecast files & process the pay run in SAP, ensuringadherence to payment terms and SOX compliance policies and other control frameworks. Prioritize invoices for Intercompany and Vendor payment according to payment terms andcritical vendors who needs special pay run as an exception. Experience of ACH, Wire transfer payments processing using banks like ANZ, HSBC, & BNPbank. Reconciliation of the Bank reconciliation, vendor & intercompany reconciliation at the monthends and cash & budget forecasting report. Review Cash & Sub-ledger transaction and clear the accounts at month end. Identifying the accounts payable process areas for improvement. Work with Internal Control team to facilitate internal and external audit review includingSOX compliance. Contributed to work projects related to the process.o Project 1 – Center of Excellence Accounts Payable – AP Power BI Dashboard & Reportingo Project 2 – Cash Management Automation – UAT, Training Manual, Users Trainingo Project 3 – Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification – Process improvements by reducingtotal activity completion time.

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting and Finance

  2010 — 2013

Skills

• Microsoft Office
• Sap Consulting
• Team Management
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Team Leadership