Rabindra Pydiah
Mississauga,ON
Summary
Resourceful AR/AP Manager offering history of success coordinating and monitoring finance processes across a group of companies. Effective leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining processes to decrease processing time and eliminate errors. Highly committed with hardworking mentality to maintain quality of services provided to all stake-holders, both internal and external.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager
Shared Services, AP & AR, Polyair
Toronto, ON
11.2019 - Current
- Canadian & US business handling
- Manage team of 6 – covering group AP and AR functions
- Month, quarter and year end reporting for Group results consolidation
- Business process re-engineering to drive efficiency and improvement
- Established new reporting capabilities to improve monitoring of AR aging, Vendor discount earning, Accrued purchases reconciliation
- Promoted and implemented working capital improvement initiative by effectively cleaning up current liabilities items, such as pending clients’ claims, accrued purchases, freight accruals, resulting in $’million improvement to Working Capital
- Implemented weekly multi-dept coordination meetings and reporting
- New systems implementation- Cash application automation, OTP workflow, Customer Claims workflow on Footprint, automated pay-run disbursement through JPM Chase platform.
Bilingual AP & AR Supervisor
Miele Canada
Vaughan, ON
01.2016 - 10.2019
- Manage team of 6
- Redefined and re-organized each role functions within AP and AR teams, recruited and trained new teams
- Established communication lines and methods with other departments, to improve interaction and better coordination
Bilingual Credit Analyst
Linde Canada
Mississauga, ON
09.2007 - 12.2015
- Credit reviews, underwriting and Credit adjudication for large clients
- Performed Due diligence, use of various sources of information both internal and external- websites, TSX reviews, Equifax, Dunn & Bradstreet reports and bank reports
- Managed litigation files - bankruptcies, receiverships, CCAA and Creditors protection cases
- Lien registration to securitize equipments sold conditionally.
Bilingual Collection Analyst
Wellsfargo Financials
Mississauga, ON
10.2005 - 07.2007
- Call Centre collection tasks, handling 100 outbound calls daily.
Education
Master of Science - Finance
University of Birmingham, UK
UK06.2001
Professional Degree in Accountancy- ACCA(UK) - Accountancy
Emile Woolf Faculty of Accountancy
London, UK1998
Skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Analytical mind to determine opportunities & challenges and strategizing to address them
- Proficiency in AS400, SAP, CRM and Microsoft Office
- Effective time management and extensive multi-tasking exposure
- Complex problem-solving abilities and autonomous worker
- Granular knowledge of GA, AP, AR and procurement, and how all interact at both departmental and corporate levels
- Fully bilingual in French and English
- AS400, SAP, CRM, Microsoft Office, Outlook express, Lotus note
Accomplishments
- Improved AP & AR service level and significantly improving inter-departmental communication
- Reduced SLA’s to a narrower band for AR and AP
- Established good rapport with all departments
- Consistently promoting accurate data treatment for accurate reporting
- Continuously educating other teams on internal controls requirements for receivables and payables
- Promoting and implementing Paperless initiative
- Improve efficiency in AP and AR though work re-organization and tasks prioritization
- Improved discount earned for payables by 175%
- Process and System implementation- Cash-app automation via BOA platform, Order-to-pay via JPM Chase platform, Client claims workflow on Footprint.
Timeline
Manager
Shared Services, AP & AR, Polyair
11.2019 - Current
Bilingual AP & AR Supervisor
Miele Canada
01.2016 - 10.2019
Bilingual Credit Analyst
Linde Canada
09.2007 - 12.2015
Bilingual Collection Analyst
Wellsfargo Financials
10.2005 - 07.2007
Master of Science - Finance
University of Birmingham, UK
Professional Degree in Accountancy- ACCA(UK) - Accountancy
Emile Woolf Faculty of Accountancy
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