Industry:OthersEmployment Period:October 2021 to May 2024 (31 Months)Duties and Responsibilities:Senior Accounts Payable Analyst (April 2023-Present)
- Monitors and strategize planning with the team to clean slate bucket queues.
- Creates automation through VBA Excel, Team's list, and Power Automate for process improvements mostly targeting lower handling time. (QA template, Netting template, Productivity Tracker, Leave Tracker, and Mailbox Verifier-IP Tracker).
- Manages month-end closing procedures by ensuring all invoices were accurately entered into the accounting system within designated timeframes.
- Supports across DBS AP Processes in NA and EMEA region including their Operating Segments, Operating Company and Business Units.
- Creates Work Instructions and process improvements.
- Optimizes payment tracking methods by introducing innovative software solutions that increased efficiency and reduced manual workload.
- Trains junior staff members in proper accounts payable procedures, ensuring consistency and accuracy across the team.
- QA posted invoices to ensure alignment with standard policies through three-way matching.
- Assist SMEs for stuck invoices/not able to interface in the system.
- Maintains and addresses missing bank detail invoices for payment.
- Coordinates with team lead for any escalations and client concerns.
- Verify, code and match invoices with purchase orders; input invoices into our accounting systems.
- Support in managing the Accounts Payable email inbox.
- Generate, extract, and subumits of netting process every once a month.
- Oversee Direct Debit transactions diligently.
- Coordinates with counterparts for aging invoices.
- Reaches out client Opcos and Payments team for weekly payment release.
- Contribute to month-end closing tasks as necessary.
- Assist SMEs for stuck invoices/not able to interface in the system.
- Fatima finished a bachelor's degree in management accounting and has eight years of experience in strategic planning, customer relationship management, and account reconciliation.
- She started as an Accounts Payable Analyst and became an AP Helpdesk Analyst. Presently, she works as a Senior Accounts Payable Analyst handling 3 teams.
- She is an expert in invoice processing, financial data entry, and record-keeping.
- She has been a Top Performer. She was involved in making process improvements and her achievements/ successful proposals include Automated QA Template, Automated DPC NA Netting, Automated DPC UK Netting, and Automated Productivity Tracker.
- She is proficient with SAP, Oracle ERP systems, ServiceNow ticketing, JDE, and MS Office.
- She is currently working full-time and can start with another engagement after 4 weeks notice.
Predictive Index Behavioral Profile - ArtisanStrongest Behaviors
- Focused; can concentrate on the task at hand for long periods. Quickly notices and understands technical matters more than social ones. Consistent and patiently thoughtful.
- Attention to detail; follows through on tasks to ensure completion in general accordance with quality standards.
- Operationally, as opposed to socially, focused. Thinks about what needs to be done, and how to do it well, and generally follows that execution plan.
Behavioral SummaryFATIMA is thoughtful, disciplined, and particularly attentive to, careful of, and accurate with the details involved in the job. Identifies problems, and enjoys solving them, particularly within her area of expertise. Works at a steady, even pace, leveraging her background for the betterment of the team, company, or customer.
With experience and/or training, she will develop a high level of specialized expertise. Serious and dedicated to the job and the company. Her work pace is steady and even-keeled, and she is motivated by a real concern for getting work done thoroughly and correctly. Discipline and circumspect thinking will lend caution to their decision-making; FATIMA plans ahead, double-checks, and follows up carefully on decisions and actions.