Senior Associate

Role Overview/ Job Description

• Support P2P Lead to provide services at expected levels with a
• clear customer service and escalates exceptions, ensuring proper
• accounting of financial transactions.
• Interacts proactively with all functional areas to ensure
• appropriate accounting, financial reporting and settlement of liabilities
• are accomplished.
• Coordinate with local entities and outsourced activities to
• provide seamless service.
• Contact Vendors to facilitate payment, ensuring alignment with
• business partners.
• Manage blocked Invoices, assessing risk and proposing actions
• in collaboration with business partners and in compliance with policies
• and procedures.
• Manage direct debits and bill of exchange transactions in
• collaboration with Reporting and related banks.
• Perform Vendor Master Data Maintenance and regular statement
• reviews, i.e., invoicing in collaboration with Commercial Operations.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations of allocated accounts and
• ensure timely resolution and clean-up of overdue items identified.
• Support continuous improvement of services in quality and
• effectiveness in close collaboration with line manager and peer
• colleagues, isolates problem trends and ensures that troubleshooting
• efforts are completed for recurring problems until permanent solutions are
• found.
• Process credit card related matters (application, inquiries,
• dunning process on overdue balances on credit cards), travel requests,
• advance payment requests and expense reports in line with Company's
• Expense Manuals and flags any noncompliance in a timely manner.
• Responsible for all accounts payable administrative functions
• such as invoices matching purchase orders, obtaining approvals and
• entering the invoices in the accounting system.
• Review of open purchase orders.
• Improve quality of information on vendor invoices.
• Preparation of changes in vendor master data.

Requirements

Requirements/

Ideal Candidate

• Ensures that the daily activities within
• Individual’s responsibilities are fulfilled properly and timely in accordance
• with Desktop Procedures and SLA targets.
• Responds to client/vendor queries in timely
• manner.
• Invoice processing is completed within SLA
• accurately and timely.
• Invoice Queries are raised in timely manner
• to vendors/client for resolution.

Payments are processed accurately and timely

• as per agreed SLA.
• Provides data for internal and external
• audit.
• Ensures Month end activities are completed on
• time for smooth closing of AP subledger.
• Ensure the errors identified in concurrent
• audit are rectified in system in timely manner.
• India market AP
• experience preferable
• SAP ERP experience
• must for the major part of candidate’s experience.

(Education/Experience/Certification)

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting and/or Finance preferred.
• Fluency in English both written and spoken.
• Minimum 5 years of financial experience for major company or
• division of large corporation.
• Previous experience in procure to pay or accounts payable
• preferred.
• Hands on experience in SAP must.