Candidates About

Riddhi Raval

SUMMARY

·         7+ years of Accounts Payable experience with Purchase Order, Journal Entries, Expense & Payment reports, Invoices, Financial Reports and Month-End Closing activities.

·         SAP Certified Application Associate – Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP6 - Scored 83%.

·         Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with deep knowledge in V-lookup, PIVOT table and Formulas to analyze large volume of data.

·         Collaborated on a team of 8 to 10 members to understand clients’ requirements in order to finalize outlook, taxes, discounts and foreign currency transactions.

·         Managed three way Invoice process, and accurately reported paid, parked and unpaid Invoices to upper management.  

·         Created Unit Tests and Mass Invoice data to ensure quality and made recommendations to improve and promote quality.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

FI Enterprise Structure                        Accounts Receivable (FI-AR)               P2P and O2C process

New General Ledger (FI-GL)               Month End Closing                              Test Cases & Plans

Accounts Payable (FI-AP)                    Documentation & FI Reporting           Functional Testing

EDUCATION

·         Bachelor of Science in Finance:        Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago, IL. USA)

·         Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting:        R J T Commerce College (Gujarat, India)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Natera, Inc.                                                                                                    November 2017 to Present

Role: Accounts Receivable Specialist                                                                                San Carlos, CA

·         Matched General and Government lockbox deposits on daily basis.

·         Processed Check Refund, Credit Card refunds, Chargebacks and pushed them to AP team to issue refund checks for the payments.

·         Processed and issued 500+ Cash Payment Invoices by ensuring price and discount accuracy on weekly basis and sent it to the patients.

·         Processed journal entries and performed accounting corrections as a part of Month-End closing activities.

·         Worked closely with Accounts Payable and General Ledger teams to report Internal and External Financial activities, Audit requests and Resolve customer queries. 

·         Prepared journal entries for Cash related transactions and other financial activities with detailed documentation.  

Core-Mark International Inc.                                                                      January 2017 to October 2017

Role: Sr. SAP AP Specialist                                                                                     South San Francisco, CA

·         Executed Purchase Order (PO) reports and corrected inaccurate Invoice line item entries in MIGO and MIRO. Compared all journal entries with attached Invoice and customized general verification report.

·         Resolved Invoice adjustment issues and cleared Invoice data by running GR / IR (Goods Received / Invoice Received) reports and matching them with GL reports.

·         Analyzed financial activities such as Month-End Closing, Expense budgeting and forecasting, long-range planning, balance-sheet account valuations and reconciliations, and expense allocations to product lines using Excel modeling (V-lookup, Pivot Tables, and Formulas).

·         Collected Invoice payment data from Financial and Accounting reports for Quarterly Audit such as prepaid, paid, hold and in-process wire transfer Invoices.

·         Coordinated with Vendors to discuss final prices for the materials and confirm the payment details to close the Invoices.

·         Interacted with different teams such as Developers, Direct Client and Off-Shore team to resolve issues and queries to generate weekly financial reports.  

Pacific Gas and Electricity (PG&E)                                                                  January 2016 to July 2016

Role:   SR. SAP AP Specialist                                                                                               San Ramon, CA

·         Configured Automatic Payment (F110) for Vendor and Inter-company transactions using In-house cash, Checks, Wire transfer.

·         Integrated the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process (P2P). Created and maintained Vendor master records. Processed vendor transactions such as Invoice payments, and verified outgoing payments.

·         Presented relevant financial reports to prime management on timely manner with great accuracy and details.

·         Resolved payment related issues such as incorrect tax calculation, discounts and pricing.

·         Reviewed and reconciled monthly financial statements. Worked with the statements and vendors to resolve outstanding issues.

Baker and McKenzie                                                                        February 2014 to December 2015

Role: Sr. SAP FI / SD Consultant                                                                                              Chicago, IL

·         Collaborated with business solutions and finance teams to understand business and functional requirements in order to develop strategies to define current model and TO-BE model.  

·         Configured GL by creating GL master data, setting multiple company codes with multiple currencies and clearing open item transactions.

·         Executed GL transactions for business processes such as posting, parking and document reversal.

·         Set up Accounts Payable processes such as building AP business module, configuring and customizing vendor master data, setting vendor account groups and house banks, processing Invoices, reporting and testing mass data upload from quality server to production server.

·         Ensured strict adherence to the firm’s month-end closing business process. Manually ran multiple company codes to match with bank data to balance periodic transactions activities.

·         Processed high volume of Invoices by processing Invoice payments for US and Foreign currencies. Provided customer support and solved customers’ Invoice queries for price adjustments, taxes and discounts calculations.

·         Worked on day to day support and implementation related issues for accounts payable, billing, payments, and pricing.

·         Traveled to UK office to provide support for billing queries and finalize outstanding bills after required modifications.

Navistar International Co.                                                                           June 2010 to January 2014

Role: SAP Accountant                                                                                                     Melrose Park, IL

·         Followed ASAP Implementation Methodology and developed business functional implementation process with SAP functional and developer team.

·         Prepared project related documents such as GAAP Analysis, blue prints, functional specifications of development activities and reports during various stages of a project.

·         Used LSMW to setup Financial Master data for Customers and Vendors, setup GL Accounts, Profit Centers, Cost Centers and carry forward open AR and AP balances from Non-SAP to SAP.

·         Implemented Dunning Program: Dunning areas, Dunning levels and dunning forms for each company at the company code level. Customized payment terms for dunning: down payments, automatic payments and automatic clearing of line items.

·         Configured Costing Variants such as costing types and valuation variants by defining results analysis keys and WIP posting rules.

ACTIVITIES

Competed Chicago Marathon 2013                                    (Participated in multiple Running Races)

National Field Hockey Player for ten years                        Member of Red Cross Blood Donor