Akash Khavale

Dynamic Accounts Receivable Specialist with 3.9 years of hands-on experience in end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) processes, cash application, and collections across global clients (APAC, EMEA, US). Proven track record at Avalara Technologies and WNS Global Services in processing high-volume payments (ACH, Lockbox, EFT, Wires), resolving unapplied cash, discrepancies, and AR aging to optimize cash flow and reduce overdue balances. Excelled in AI-driven automation, leading NetSuite invoice write-offs via CSV uploads and leveraging AI tools for AR aging analysis and semi-automated payment allocation—boosting efficiency, accuracy, and TAT. Skilled in NetSuite, Salesforce, Jira, n8n, Power BI, and cross-functional collaboration for billing disputes, refunds, dunning, escalations, and month-end GL entries. Seeking senior AR/Collections roles to drive process improvements and financial excellence.

• Worked for US based biggest Shipping and Logistics provider company as a part of AR team. • Experienced in O2C end to end process with special focus on: Cash Application. • Downloading and saving daily bank statements from bank portals. • Working on cash applications for EMEA. • Creating batches for EFT, Wires, ACH and obtaining remittances for each payment and applying accordingly. • Chasing the collectors for UN-allocated credits on customer’s account and applying them in timely manner. • Applying Collection on Behalf payments (inter-company payment) for all regions APAC, EMEA, US/LATAM. • Resolving queries of collectors and reconciliation team Via email and AR Ticketing tool Within 24hrs of TAT. • Expert in resolving queries of Inter-company outages and inter-company settlement payments and giving the best resolution to the to client. • Verifying duplicate payments and co-coordinating with the collectors to start the refund process, once the refund is processed, removing the on-account credits from customer account for EMEA region. • Processing the write-off Bad debts for all three regions from the write-off portal. • Getting all payments applied and closing all the created batches. before month-end closing. • Reconciling the bank statements with the batches on daily basis to make sure no payment is missed. • Performing various month activity like transfer general entry to GL, rectifying the error if any while closing the month-end period and Closing the accounting periods for the month. • Working on Unidentified payments on monthly and allocating them to appropriate customer accounts.