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Shift: 4:30 PM to 1:30 AM (IST)
The Opportunity
You will lead, coach, and develop an Accounts Payable team with your meticulous experience. You will use your strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize and multitask, effective communication skills to work with a North American Finance team to solve Accounts Payable issues and participate in the month-end closure. As our business changes into a more streamlined organization with an emphasis on both efficiency and effectiveness, you will work with our Accounting, Reporting, Control, and Settlements (ARCS) teams to recast the Accounts Payable team from payment function within Finance to a more agile business partner interfacing with ARCS using new systems and enhanced processes and procedures of which you will assist in designing as a material participant in these initiatives.
Your Key Responsibilities
Supervise and mentor Accounts Payable coordinators and analysts, providing guidance and support to ensure high team performance.
Maintain process documentation and update as necessary to reflect any changes or exceptions working with the ARCS and Finance teams.
Oversee daily invoice processing activities, ensuring adherence to SLAs and accuracy in processing.
Prioritize invoice processing based on criticality and ensure timely resolution of exceptions.
Conduct ad-hoc vendor reconciliations to ensure accuracy of accounts payable records.
Monitor and fix if the any variances between AP sub-ledger and GL balances.
Assist in month-end activities and eventually take ownership of assigned tasks within the AP month-end closure process.
Assist with identified areas for process improvement, including streamlining processes and procedures within the AP system, and assisting ARCS in implementing new system and process solutions as a material participant in the Finance business change program.
Interface with the ARCS team to provide documentation on various financial transactions.
Enforce company policies and ensure compliance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
Oversee the internal and external audit requirements.
Understand and fulfil ad-hoc reporting and requirements.
For the position to be yours, you need to have
A bachelors or masters degree in finance, accounting, or business
10+ years of relevant experience. (End to end procure to pay experience in preferred)
5+ years with people management experience
Excellent communication skills in English verbal and written.
Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite.
Excellent knowledge of modern, professional accounting principles and practices.
Outstanding people skills to inspire diverse teams to collaborate and perform well.
A positive outlook towards learning new skills and unlearning old ones.
Expertise in developing, coaching, and mentoring others.
Able to take full ownership of assignments and work with minimal supervision.
Preferable experience using Great Plains - Dynamics & Coupa
Ability to meet all deadlines.
Flexible to work during North American timings based on requirement.
