Manager - Accounts Payable - Gurugram, India - ixigo

Description

Key Responsibilities:

1) Leadership, Stakeholder management, Audit and Controls:

• Managing overall AP function for the group.
• Bring discipline and adopt processes as required to ensure a strong AP function and align the processes across the group.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the expectations withing the timeline.
• Playing a key role in liaising with all auditors for AP and Fixed Assets and getting the audits closed within time without any negative remarks.
• Automation of Processes wherever required.
• Developing and implementing internal controls to mitigate the risks involved.
• Ensure proper management of ERP and hygiene of data recorded in ERP for better reporting and control.

2) Invoice Booking, Payments, and Expenses Management:

• Checking payment calendars and ensuring payments are done on time.
• Proper evaluation of vendor ageing and making sure no delays in payment to vendors.
• Ensure timely closure of books with accuracy (Monthly, Quarterly, Annually)
• Ensuring all invoices are booked on time and released/paid as per due date.
• Making sure of all intercompany booking and payments are done on time.
• Ensuring foreign payments, foreign invoices and its tax impacts are booked properly and on time in ERP.
• Making sure all documented processes are followed in AP function & zero adverse observations in all audits.
• Ensuring Banks and Cards are always reconciled on time and BRS is shared.
• Ensuring all transaction through cards are properly recorded in books and adequate documentation is maintained.

3) Schedules Management, Reporting, Compliance:

• Managing the schedules and analysing ageing where required (Expenses, Advances, Trade Payables, Provisions) for the group at each month end and ensuring completeness and accuracy.
• Preparing all schedule at group level and delivering the same to auditors and internal stakeholder on time.
• Maintaining various masters (in ERP) related to AP and Fixed Assets and ensuring hygiene.
• Ensuring all tax related compliances in expenses booking, payments, cross charges.
• Ensuring proper documentation from vendors as per regulatory requirement.
• Ability to make new policies, document and implement them across.
• Ensuring MSME compliances and making policies around the same.

Attributes of an Ideal Candidate:

• Qualification: B. Com/ CA-Inter/MBA
• Proven work experience of 7-10 years in accounts payable function. Candidate from an E-commerce background will be preferred.
• Should possess good communication and interpersonal skill.
• Should have a good understanding of Tax and compliance regulations (eg: TDS, Equalisation Levy, GST) E with respect to AP function.
• Ability to own and drive the function ensuring the organisational objectives are met.
• Ability to Multitask.