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Work History
Education
Skills
Technical Skills
Training
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Sowmya R

Zuora Consultant (FINOPS)
Kanchipuram,Tamilnadu

Summary

An enthusiastic Multi-tasking self motivated team player with strong communication and analytical skills. Over the years received extensive experience of Automated Subscription management, Revenue management, micro-finance and banking in dealing with customers directly as well as through my teams. Additionally, the various responsibilities that prepared me for management positions in a variety of fields and Seeking a challenging position in a firm where I can take the responsibility of completing and learning new things of system within a specified time of period and as per the requirements. Quick learner in understanding and takes hands-on the business processes at functional/system architecture level.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages

Work History

Zuora Consultant

Negits Solutions
06.2023 - Current

Client : Box

· As a L2, Im responsible for daily activities and handling production support issues related to Subscription, Invoice, Payments, Bill runs, Revenue & Netsuite integration.

· Handling MEC/Admin activities in both Zuora Billing and Revenue

· Performing reconciliation activities between Zuora Billing & Zuora Revenue, Zuora Billing & Netsuite, Zuora Billing & Avalara, Zuora Billing & Adyen. (Billing, Booking, Taxation, Payments)

· Working closely with Order management team, Billing team, Revenue team to ensure smooth daily operational activities

· Debugging issues in Zuora workflow and raising it to L3 team with findings/solutions for enhancements

· Testing quarterly release upgrades of Zuora revenue and Netsuite, submitting the test results to the Finance team for review and sign-off.

· Closely working with customers across US, UK and Beijing hours and assisting them through calls when required.

· Providing User access and defining user roles, initiating Bill Runs as Zuora Administrator

· Testing the various business scenarios and providing user stories as part of process improvements

· Connecting with Business/Clients/Stakeholders for prod support bugs, Credit/Debit Note issue, Refund issue

· Performing Country deployments(Product Configuration) for multiple entities/currencies and performing sanity checks at E- Commerce front end application

· Analyzing the invoice posting failure to NetSuite and providing the fix to post

· Escalating the issues to higher-level teams, third party teams, Zuora teams and users to resolve issues faced.

· Handling SOX & Audit controls like ITGC01,02,03,12 and key reports.

Zuora Consultant (Contractor)

Ackerman Technologies
06.2018 - 02.2021
  • Being a Zuora consultant I am responsible for handling production support and admin related activities
  • Provided On-Call Support by marking availability at any time during working hours including weekends, addressing system issues, escalations, or any critical issues, would require support involvement.
  • Working with cross functional teams, users across multiple locations in order to resolve issues, plan releases and make necessary communications
  • Configuring and managing the various Zuora features such as products and pricing, subscriptions, billing and payments, invoicing, and revenue recognition.
  • Managing Zuora data by adding, updating, and deleting data as required and be able to create custom fields, objects, and layouts.
  • Troubleshooting any issues related to Zuora such as errors, bugs in workflows, and user issues and be able to resolve these issues promptly and effectively.
  • Ensuring SOX compliance by adhering to policies and procedures

Teller (Cashier)

UJJIVAN SMALL FINANCE BANK
02.2021 - 07.2022
  • Assisted clients with various questions and concerns related to their accounts and bank products.
  • Assisted client relationship managers / BOO / BOM at bank branch with customer account research and maintenance.
  • Processed daily client transactions, including deposits, withdrawals and loan payments
  • Assisted supervisors in daily branch operations
  • Helped customers open and close accounts, personal loans and mortgages.
  • Promoted bank products and services by referring customers to appropriate business partners as necessary
  • Accurately maintained records of each transaction and ensured all documentation and paperwork was in place and within compliance.
  • Accurately receiving, counting and distributing cash, selling financial services, assisting with bank branch audits.
  • Strictly following bank procedures at all times.
  • Successfully performed a full range of Teller duties.

Unit Manager (ESCCO dept)

ESAF small finance Bank
11.2016 - 05.2018
  • Addition with the previous roles, overseeing all banking procedures and processes
  • Managing and supervising department employees; responsible for day-to-day supervision and leadership
  • Overseeing approvals of loans, documents, and other fiscal plans
  • Preparing financial statements and analysis for branch improvements; Worked ground level to expand branch with new accounts, clients, and businesses
  • Assisting with customer service and satisfaction in banking sector
  • Responsible for monitoring all the activities like collections, sales and discipline, business development, reports and documentation (KYC)
  • Preparing the account opening document & maintaining for providing the timely reports to my reporting manager
  • Encouraging to team and staff, mentoring them to understand all the banking procedures
  • Analyzing the financial records and assisting the team to accomplish branch goals
  • Maintaining monthly and weekly registers / files
  • Documenting and reporting to Area Managers on daily basis

Branch Manager

ESAF Micro-finance company
08.2014 - 10.2016
  • Overseeing the allocation of finance to the respective members, assisting in the establishment, running and supervising the business.
  • Lead a team of 12 to 15 field sales representative.
  • Increasing the sales in the branch.
  • Responsible for providing technical sales training to sales staff; training the staff in all aspects and growing the branch revenue.
  • Driving the team to ensure that customer's needs are met.
  • Supervising the collection of any loan repayments outstanding, auditing/surprise visit to the customers place during loan disbursement to check the performance.
  • Coordinating business development initiatives at the department level and performing the duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.
  • Establish & maintaining good as well as positive relationship with the Customers.
  • Responsible for maintaining the quality & quantity of the products.
  • Ensuring that all the sales target for the branch are achieved around TAT.

Branch Manager

MUTHOOT FINCORP LTD
05.2011 - 04.2013
  • Overseeing and managing/enhancing all aspects of business such as business development, revenue generation, operational efficiency, accounting, sales and operations; Responsible for supervising and managing the bank.
  • Monitoring the Gold appraisals, cashier and also managing the customers, accounting and budget information.
  • At EOD, checking the pledging gold packets, verifying the petty cash & petty bills, timely closing the process in the prescribed copyrighted software.
  • Monitoring day to day bank transactions, preparing bank reconciliation statement and book keeping, including all other office works.
  • Handling of day to day general entries.
  • Maintaining the records of sales & operations.
  • Conducting the Internal Meeting daily basis for growth and providing responsibility sheet to CSE regularly.
  • Along with maintaining branch activities, have raised ownership bar of selling other products and achieving in other Projects such as: Secured Deposit, Western Union Money Transfer, FOREX, Insurance(Apollo health insurance)

Customer Service Executive (Gold Appraiser, Cashier/Teller)

MUTHOOT FINCORP LTD
05.2010 - 04.2011
  • As a Gold Appraiser for a period of six months:
  • Involved in checking the purity of gold, checking the content of metal and determining how fine it is by evaluating its Karat
  • Examining the Gold and checking the number of packet pledging about the item being evaluated at end of every day
  • Preparing an appraisal report on a property's(Gold) value, inspecting and photographing the property.
  • During every month auditing, Co-operating with the auditing team.
  • As a Cashier/Teller for the next period of six months:
  • Assisting customers for processing transactions, such as deposits, withdrawals and payments.
  • Resolving complaints, account discrepancies, and answering customers queries.
  • Involved in TA/DA Bill verification and accounting.
  • By giving Best Performance, Promoted as Branch Manager of Kanchipuram (new opening) Branch at 2011.

Jr Marketing Executive

SKYY REACH CAREER DEVELOPERS
10.2008 - 12.2009
  • Being a Tele Marketing Junior Executive I am responsible for convincing the Job seekers over through telephonic interview and maintain a high conversion ratio.
  • Giving feedback regarding the same and providing documentation regarding each process to the concerned Team Leader.
  • Maintains operations by following policies and procedures, also contributing to team efforts by accomplishing the results as needed.

Education

Bachelors - English Literature

Government Arts College for Women
06.2005 - 04.2008

HSC - Maths, Biology, Physics, Chemistry (MPCB)

Govt. Girls Hr Sec School
06.2003 - 05.2005

SSLC - undefined

Govt. Girls Hr Sec School
06.2002 - 05.2003

Skills

    Problem-solving

    Time management

    Team collaboration

    Client relationships

    Best practices implementation

    Quality assurance

    Continuous improvement

    Process improvement

    Operations analysis

    Issue resolution

Technical Skills

Zuora Billing

Zuora Revenue

NetSuite

Avalara

Adyen

Blackline


Training

  • 2019, Completed Zuora billing administration course and attended Zuora university workshops
  • 2014, 3 days training workshop for Esaf microfinance
  • 2017, Esaf small finance bank workshop training for 5 days
  • 2017, Banking procedure workshop provided by SBI for 3 days

Accomplishments

  • Zuora Billing 101, 201 & 301
  • Zuora Revenue 101, 201 & 301

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the information furnished above is truth to the best of my knowledge.

Timeline

Zuora Consultant

Negits Solutions
06.2023 - Current

Teller (Cashier)

UJJIVAN SMALL FINANCE BANK
02.2021 - 07.2022

Zuora Consultant (Contractor)

Ackerman Technologies
06.2018 - 02.2021

Unit Manager (ESCCO dept)

ESAF small finance Bank
11.2016 - 05.2018

Branch Manager

ESAF Micro-finance company
08.2014 - 10.2016

Branch Manager

MUTHOOT FINCORP LTD
05.2011 - 04.2013

Customer Service Executive (Gold Appraiser, Cashier/Teller)

MUTHOOT FINCORP LTD
05.2010 - 04.2011

Jr Marketing Executive

SKYY REACH CAREER DEVELOPERS
10.2008 - 12.2009

Bachelors - English Literature

Government Arts College for Women
06.2005 - 04.2008

HSC - Maths, Biology, Physics, Chemistry (MPCB)

Govt. Girls Hr Sec School
06.2003 - 05.2005

SSLC - undefined

Govt. Girls Hr Sec School
06.2002 - 05.2003
Sowmya RZuora Consultant (FINOPS)