Manager - Accounts Payable - Manufacturing Firm

- Overall responsible for Accounts Payables . Ensuring timely and accurate payments to suppliers.

- Ensuring robust accounting, statutory and commercials control & compliance while releasing payment. Implementing a process of supplier reconciliation and addressing cross functional co ordination to address disputes in supplier payment.

- List the expected end results that must be achieved in order to fulfil your job purpose and the activities that help in achieving these results.

1. Accounting Payable

- Ensure accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency in vendors payments and procedures to meet up with operational needs.

- Establish robust process of supplier reconciliation and sign off process ensuring timely confirmation.

- Ageing analysis of all pending balances and work with the respective business teams for clearing off old balances

- Analytical review of the payables ledger and ensure that all the payments are properly accounted in the books.

- Generation of MIS reports and analysis & weekly review with management.

2. Accounting, Audit & Compliance - Monitoring the process & compliance with the Group financial policies and procedures

- Support Statutory / Group audits and work with respective business units in resolving audit queries

- SOX controls & Compliance.

- Advance aging and follow up

- Supporting in accruals, accounting, and provisioning.

3. Process Automation - Responsible for driving automation processes withing Payables domain

- Explore Strategic outsourcing and process benchmarking

- Strengthen MIS and reporting and cross functional integration

- All Manufacturing Cross functional Team Leaders (ME, GPSC, Quality)

- Plant Managers and Plant finance controllers

- NSC leaders

- Regional stakeholders - Suppliers

- To Coordinate with global finance team.

- External Statutory Auditors

- Internal Auditors

- Qualified CA/CWA with 8+ years of post-qualification relevant work experience; preferably from Manufacturing. Candidate must have thorough experience in Payables & Accounting domain.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE :

- Through experience of managing large accounts payable operations and supplier reconciliation.

- Candidate should also have experience in accounting. Must know SAP ERP.

- The Ideal candidate must have good understanding of automation and excellent Excel skills.

- Ability to plan, direct, and review the work of subordinate accounts payable workers in the company

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS & BEHAVIOURS :

- Process driven and have flare for automation and process excellence

- Ability to work cross-functional team, cross cultural team and at all levels of the organization

- Good communication and Interpersonal skills

- Good analytical proficiency, accurate, swift, and attentiveness when dealing with administrative functions

- Ability to present excellent and courteous customer service, create, and maintain effective working relationship with other members of the department