SShyam BahetiFinance Operations • Insights
Finance Transformation & GBS

Practical finance,
from the operations floor.

Notes on Order-to-Cash, Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, SAP and working capital — written from 21+ years of running finance operations, not from theory. What worked, what broke, and what I’d do differently.

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What this blog covers

Six lenses on one finance operation

Order-to-Cash

Credit, billing, collections, disputes, deductions and cash application — where revenue becomes cash.

Record-to-Report

Close discipline, reconciliations, controls and why upstream quality decides the close.

Procure-to-Pay

Vendor invoices, GR/IR, payment terms and the other half of working capital.

GBS & Transformation

Operating models, transitions, SLAs and building teams that scale across countries.

SAP & Automation / AI

S/4HANA, Central Finance, FSCM and where automation genuinely helps — and where it doesn’t.

Working Capital & Leadership

DSO, DPO, DIO in one view, plus the people and governance that move the numbers.

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Why I’m writing this

Most finance content is written for the boardroom. This blog is written for the people who actually run the processes — and for leaders who want to understand what sits underneath the numbers they review.

Every article follows the same discipline: a real operational problem, the framework I use to diagnose it, and the controls that keep the fix from slipping back.

Background in brief

  • Finance Operations leadership across O2C, credit management and collections
  • Global O2C transformation and SAP S/4HANA standardisation programmes
  • SAP FSCM Credit Management, dispute and collections workstreams
  • MBA Finance · PMP® (Cert. 4062786) · Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
  • Full profile and case studies at shyambaheti.in
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