Rajesh Acharya

Experience

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  Sumeru Software Solutions Pvt Ltd

  Mar 2005 - Sept 2009

  Finance Manager

  - Set up the entire Finance team including Accounting policies and setting up of Accounting software and integration to billing systems - Responsibilities include AP, AR, GL, FA, Cash Flow Mgmt & Audits - Vendor Management

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  IBM

  Sept 2009 - Sept 2015

  Finance Operations Manager - Global Business Service

  - Reengineered the financial risk policy for an Oil & Gas major- Seamless transition and transformation of Procure-To-Pay, Order-To-Cash, Record-to-Report operations of a Fortune100 FMCG company- Troubleshooting SPOC from IBM as well as the Client's perspective- diversified leadership and guiding team on operations management

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  Capgemini

  Sept 2015 - May 2018

  Finance Operations Manager - Financial Shared Services

  - Managed & led a team of 150+ employee- Successfully led the Finance Operations for a real estate major across 5 Regions( from APAC to America)- Weekly engagement with the Client ensuring transparent reporting- Transformation of T&E policy and processes leading to high C-Sat & E-Sat scores- Part of pre-sales to include additional work and renegotiating the contract

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  Oracle

  Jun 2018 - Jun 2020

  Senior Manager - Quote to Order Operations

  - Transformed the Order Management team with robust processes improvements and reduced manual handoffs - Improved Turn Around Time(TAT) of service delivery to resolve issues leading to an improvement of c. 250% - Collaborated with over 10 teams to bring transparency on the issue resolutions

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  Qatar Airways

  Sept 2021 - Jan 2023

  Accounts Payable Manager - Invoice & Payments; Global Business Service

  - Automated the Finance Process for Invoice Processing & achieving c.60% processing straight-through processing from scratch - Straight-through processing included designing of processing invoices in 30 different global languages - Managed & Monitored the processing of 60,000 invoices and payments of $200Mn per Month. - Reduced cost by 12% by introducing Original Character Recognition (OCR) and through Strategic Outsourcing. - Created a quality control team and ideated & implemented a new CRM tool for increased Customer Experience. - Guided & Coached team(Including first line and second line managers) on documentation, SLAs, KPI & Reporting. - Re-engineered processes by collaborating with Internal & external teams - Managed and led multi-cultural & multi-national team - Managed Vendors across the globe from Asia, Europe to America Show less

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  REDPATH MINING

  Aug 2023 - now

  Manager Accounting - Global Shared Services

  Global Shared Services | Accounting | Process Automation | Period Close| Leading Diverse Teams | Reporting | InterCompany | Standardisation | Leadership