Work Experience | Sameer Bhattarai

Pathao

Apprentice / Trainee · 2025–Present · Kathmandu

Pathao moves fast. Thousands of transactions a day. Riders, merchants, settlements, disputes — all flowing through financial systems that have zero tolerance for ambiguity. I sit inside that machinery.

My job is to make sure the numbers are right, every single day. Not approximately right. Right.

What that actually looks like:

→ Daily operational reporting across high-volume, real-time transaction data
→ Sundry debtor management — tracking who owes what, why, and since when
→ Payment processing, disbursement verification, vendor settlements
→ Bank reconciliations across multiple channels, every day, no exceptions
→ Building Excel-based models that turn raw data into decisions
→ Working inside Tally and internal financial systems built for speed, not elegance

"Working inside a live operating business taught me something no textbook could: finance isn't about numbers. It's about systems, timing, people, and the decisions that happen between the rows of a spreadsheet."

Timeline

2023 → Started ACCA + BBS. Learned the rules.

2025 → Pathao. Learned what the rules look like when they hit reality.

2026 → ACCA Finalist. Strategic Professional Level.

NOW → Building. Learning. Looking for the next hard problem.