Manager Billing
Mindshare
Total years of experience :17 years, 3 Months
To directly deal with the client in terms of recoveries and payments and reconciliation with both channel and vendors etc
•Reporting to Head of Commercial for all day to day operations related to the commercial department.
•Client Revenue Forecasts / Planning.
•Prepare quarterly/yearly budgets with close coordination with the Marketing team.
•Track and notify Groupm, any Client Early Payment Discounts, Direct Debits, and Payment Terms in advance of Vendor negotiation.
•Set up billing for new clients or modify billing SOP for existing clients with GroupM approval to improve billing efficiency.
•Provide detailed explanation on accrued revenues, over 180’s and bad debts.
•Provide collection support where needed.
•Responsible for unbilled, aged receivables and accrued revenue.
•Played a lead role in all internal audits related to billing, followed up with customers regarding invoices, analyzed customer contracts, and created in-depth spreadsheets
•Responsible for rebate reporting to the clients in compliance with Client contracts.
•Act as a liaison between client media and internal media department for budgets and accruals.
•Finalized accrued and deferred revenue on a monthly basis.
•Worked with Business Leads for computation of fees and commission percentage.
•Provided Budget vs. Actual reconciliation on a quarterly basis
•Dual reporting to the Finance Head and ESP Head regarding all the ESP operations.
•Handled all ESP functions including but not limited to payments to vendors, invoicing to clients, taxation related queries, facilitating the ESP team in concluding and finalizing the deals with client/vendors
•Performed project profitability calculations and return on investment reports.
•Worked with Finance Manager for regional and statuary reports.
•Collected the Media rebates income for all GroupM clients as per the yearly media agreement
•Distributed volume discounts to all Groupm Clients as per the Client Contracts.
GroupM Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd: Assistant Billing Manager (Joining Date Dec 10, till date)
I am leading with the clients Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd, Moblink, Castrol Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd HSBC Pakistan, and Barclay Bank and responsibilities are citing below.
• To maintain WIP of my client and make sure there is no RO left for more than 60 days.
• To help team to resolve all queries from vendors.
• To have a strong follow-up and check on payment status.
• To resolve all queries of clients on timely basis.
• To reconcile billing with client Purchase orders and payment status.
• To ensure about quarterly and yearly closing from both client and vendors' end.
• To have a strong cross check of all vendor invoices and supported documents for audit point of view.
• To ensure all invoices are dispatches on timely basis and have a proper cross check of all invoices via hardcopy or soft copy.
• To coordinate with Islamabad office and Karachi office to resolve any internal dispute related to buying or planning.
• Take care of payments from clients and resolve any query which delays payments on urgent basis.
• To help finance department in knocking off the payment received from clients.
• To take care of outstanding and billing statements of vendors and reconcile same with them on quarterly basis.
• To work and reconcile on Bulk Discount on GroupM level clients.
• To work for monthly billing presentation for all agencies and make minutes of the meeting for same, which is presented to Director Finance and Financial Controller.
My achievements during my job in GroupM are as under: • Helps, Introduces and finalize the master invoice format for my client Pepsi-Cola international which helps in recovery and as well as in yearly reconciliation.
• I have created a software with the help of IT team for my client Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd in order to full fill its demands and procedures and have a strong cross check of child invoices, master invoices, credit notes, debit notes, and all invoices dispatch to client.
• To reduce outstanding percentage of Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) from 100% to 0%.
• Introduces a format of quarterly billing reconciliation with vendors so that to make sure that all invoices are billed and there are no invoices left after reconciliation with client or year-end closing.
• Trained three resources with a very short interval of time.
• Able to maintain a good reputation in front of all clients.
Group M Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd: Billing Executive (Joining Date Feb 07, till Nov 10)
I worked for the well-known clients of industry Pepsi Cola International (Pvt) Ltd, ICI, Dalda Foods (Pvt) Ltd. Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd, Castrol Pakistan and HSBC Pakistan.
My responsibilities are citing below:
• Resolving the queries of Suppliers' bills.
• To monitor WIP status and keep WIP as minimum as possible at the month End.
• To ensure that correctness of Debit / Credit notes to be issued to clients on timely basis.
• To prepare the different reports as per requirement of Management
• To facilitate the client in terms of different types of reporting
• To assist the Finance Department in other day to day issues relating to billing, supplier invoices, etc.
• To maintain updated list of disputed billing on monthly basis.
• Responsible for resolving disputes with channels and clients.
• If dispute relates to buying mistake so have proper correspondence with
Buying and try to resolve them
• To ensure that the invoices are dispatched on timely basis to the client.
• To ensure that proper filing is being made for all the invoices issued during the month. This includes maintenance of Softcopy as well as Hard copy records.
Evoice Escribe:-
Medical Transcriptionist. (Joining Date June 07, till January 08)
My responsibilities are citing below:
• Taking online dictations from Doctors & cresting files for patients.
• Inter Office correspondence
AMZ Access:-
Medical Transcriptionist. (Joining Date February 07, till June 07)
My responsibilities are citing below:
• Taking online dictations from Doctors & cresting files for patients.
• Inter Office correspondence.
Masters: • MBA from IBT (Institute of Business and Technology) in Marketing & Advertisting. • Completed the project for product repositioning (Pepsi Max), HR policies, New product launch (Easy Paisa) and currently working on final year project of Digital Media in Pakistan. • Final year project: Aspects and important of digital media in Pakistan, published in econpapers.com. Below is the link: • http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search/search.asp?ft=fahad+akber
Bachelors: • B.Com from Govt. Science & Commerce College Gulshan-E-Iqbal. (Karachi University) Intermediate: • Govt. Science & Commerce College Gulshan-E-Iqbal. Matriculation:
• Young Folks High School.
