Receivables under control
Clean aging reviews, tighter dunning cadence, credit note discipline, billing plan accuracy, and early escalation of payment-timeline anomalies.
Finance operations & accounting - Berlin
Adeel Riaz
Finance operations and accounting professional with 7+ years across AR, AP, month-end close, project accounting, ERP systems, and reporting automation.
7+ yrs
Finance and accounting
+30%
Cash-flow improvement through collections
4 ERP
SAP B1, DATEV, Xentral, Odoo
Berlin
Hybrid, remote, freelance
Where Adeel can help
Finance teams that need receivables under control, cleaner close routines, and reporting data they can trust.
Primary fit
Finance Ops / AR
Reporting strength
FP&A / Analyst
Project support
Finance workflows
Role fit
Reliable finance operations for teams that need clean close and better cash visibility.
Adeel combines transactional finance ownership with ERP discipline, reporting judgment, and practical workflow improvement.
AR management with cash discipline and operational context.
Strong fit for multi-location businesses, recurring billing models, and teams that need cleaner aging, dunning, credit notes, payment schedules, and receivables forecasting.
- Managed end-to-end AR at Mindspace Germany: invoicing, collections, credit notes, forecasting, and AR close.
- Configured customer master data and billing plans in SAP Business One.
- Improved cash flow by 30% through collections optimization and proactive dunning workflows.
Hands-on finance operations across billing, reporting, and controls.
Useful for companies that need a practical finance operator who can lead billing, reporting, vendor coordination, controls, and cross-functional execution.
- Delivered month-end AR reporting, aging analysis, revenue accruals, reconciliations, and variance memos.
- Coordinated Sales, Ops, Community, HR, IT, Legal, and Procurement workflows across finance processes.
- Managed project budgets, billing plans, WIP reviews, subcontractor payments, and audit-ready documentation.
Senior Accountant with GL, sub-ledger, VAT, and reconciliation depth.
Good fit for lean finance teams that need full-cycle accounting ownership with reliable close discipline and clean documentation across AP, AR, VAT, banking, and intercompany activity.
- Handled AP/AR, PO processing, VAT returns, expenses, bank, vendor, and intercompany reconciliations.
- Maintained revenue accruals, cost allocations, project coding, and ERP status reporting.
- Worked across DATEV, SAP B1, Xentral, Odoo, Collmex, and spreadsheet automation.
FP&A analyst for turning finance operations data into decisions.
Useful when a finance team needs variance notes, dashboards, spend-vs-budget tracking, DSO visibility, billing forecasts, and KPI reporting from imperfect ERP or spreadsheet data.
- Built receivables forecasting models and analyzed DSO and overdue balance trends.
- Conducted spend-vs-budget and WIP analysis for project portfolios.
- Advanced Excel, Power Query, Power BI, Qlik, pivot, data cleaning, and ETL experience.
Finance strengths
Three areas Adeel can own quickly.
The focus is practical finance work: cash visibility, close discipline, and repeatable reporting routines.
Month-end with fewer surprises
Revenue accruals, reconciliations, P&L variance notes, WIP review, cost allocation, and documentation that can survive audit questions.
Repeatable reporting systems
Power Query, BI dashboards, ERP master data hygiene, invoice workflow automation, and practical handoff notes for non-technical finance users.
Experience
Recent finance work across Berlin operating teams.
Selected roles across coworking, consumer products, and project finance environments.
02/2026 - 04/2026
Account Receivable Manager - Mindspace Germany GmbH
Owned AR operations for a multi-location coworking portfolio, including billing, collections, credit notes, customer master data, AR close, and receivables forecasting.
2022 - 2025
Senior Accountant / Finance Project Manager - Sunday Natural Products GmbH
Managed project accounting, WIP reviews, budgets, cost codes, billing plans, P&L variance reporting, vendor onboarding, and subcontractor payment cycles.
2019 - 2022
Accountant - Soulproducts GmbH
Handled AP/AR, POs, VAT, expenses, bank/vendor/intercompany reconciliations, weekly cash and billing reporting, and ERP process improvements.
Freelance support
Short finance projects for cleanup, reporting, and workflow improvement.
For smaller teams, Adeel can support focused work around AR cleanup, Odoo accounting workflows, Power Query reporting, and invoice reminders.
AR cleanup sprint
Review aging, segment overdue balances, repair dunning logic, and hand over a weekly cash collection rhythm.
Odoo and ERP accounting setup
Support vendor bill OCR, tax configuration, product tax mapping, and finance workflow documentation.
Power Query and n8n automation
Build finance reporting pipelines, invoice reminder workflows, and operational dashboards for small teams.
For recruiters, founders, and finance leads.
Use the CV pack for role matching, or reach out directly for a short finance operations engagement.