Skill required:
Procure to Pay - Account Reconciliations
Designation:
Procure to Pay Operations Analyst
Qualifications:
BCom
Years of Experience:
3 to 5 years
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What would you do?
The Role: The incumbent should be an expert in Accounts payable lifecycle and will be responsible for payment process for
- Working as SME role for end-to-end payment process.
- Understand the payment process and play lead role in preparing the SOPs, documentation part of the process.
- Manage the daily operations related communications, interactions with internal & client stakeholder both by e-mails and calls as well.
- Work closely with client Treasury team, AP leads to finalize the payment proposal with changes to be made and ensure submission before cut off time.
- He/she must have worked in Accounts payable payment activities for international client, BPO organization.
- Work as Trainer/mentor for team members who are freshers/CL 12 resources.
- Must be ready to work in night shift basis the business requirements. Functional Responsibilities:
- Create the payment proposals as per payment schedule or request received from client.
- Conduct quality check for payment proposal to ensure 100% accuracy before submission of payment proposal to Treasury for final execution.
- Lead to knowledge transfer for payment process, work closely with client stakeholders to understand end to end process
- Prepare the SOPs, daily reporting for AP activities in scope.
- Work with other AP functions proactively for invoice posting, VMD related issues for execution of urgent payments.
- Detailed understanding of connecting AP sub-processes to ensure 100% accuracy in all prerequisites for execution of payment proposals.
- Validate the process controls and ensure 100% compliance to avoid client escalation.
- Resolving the payment process related queries, discuss and drive the process changes/updates received from client
- Generate lean ideas and improvements in process and delivering the improved process controls, productivity, accuracy.
- Must be an expert in analyzing and understanding the client requirement
- Interact with client SMEs, Lead for daily work and process related issues
- Must possess good communication skills both e-mail and oral.
- Participate in the weekly/daily calls with Client SMEs and ensure timely execution of process changes.
- Execute the process controls defined by process leads and provide status update with 100% compliance.
- Remain up to date on AP-related policies and regulations in-scope What are we looking for?
- Client Management People Management Responsibilities:
- Play the role of trainer/coach for new joiners/freshers and CL 12 resources.
- Act as second in command in absence of immediate supervisor of process.
- Work allocation and timely completion of tasks.
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Excel VBA Programming Qualifications:
- Minimum 4-5 years of AP experience in Finance & Accounting function out of which 1.5 to 2 years in BPO or shared service centers.
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in finance accounting or related field
- Good knowledge of AP payments and reporting activities. System & applications
- Experience of working in SAP ERP would be an added advantage.
- Good knowledge of MS Excel & word.
- Having advanced excel knowledge would be an added advantage. Communication & Interpersonal skills
- Ability to interact with customers for daily operational activities with client SME
- Excellent in communication skills both oral and written as need to interact with suppliers/internal stakeholders via calls and e-mails.
- Closely work with team lead to drive process/organizational initiative
- Must be able to communicate both orally and in writing with client, internal stakeholders, team to drive the operations smoothly. Roles and Responsibilities:
- In this role you are required to do analysis and solving of lower-complexity problems
- Your day to day interaction is with peers within Accenture before updating supervisors
- In this role you may have limited exposure with clients and/or Accenture management
- You will be given moderate level instruction on daily work tasks and detailed instructions on new assignments
- The decisions you make impact your own work and may impact the work of others
- You will be an individual contributor as a part of a team, with a focused scope of work
- Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts
