Vice President, Accounts Payable and Payroll - Pune District - TresVista

Description

About TresVista

TresVista is a global enterprise whose business model is built to deliver enduring value. TresVista combines best practices, technology-enabled execution, and industry-leading talent to drive meaningful results. By integrating advisory capabilities with scalable delivery, TresVista helps clients operate smarter and grow stronger. TresVista's services include investment diligence, industry research, valuation, fund administration, accounting, and data analytics.

About the Department:

The corporate finance department in the company handles all the financial and investment decisions. It primarily focuses on maximizing shareholder value through long-term and short-term financial planning and the implementation of various strategies. It aims to maximize the value of a business through the planning and execution of resources.

The Role & Responsibilities

The Vice President, Accounts Payable, and the payroll are responsible for managing and supervising all finance and accounts functions, ensuring the proper maintenance of accounting systems and the timely delivery of accounts payable and payroll services (domestic and international). These roles require strict adherence to deadlines, government legislation, internal policies, and established procedures. As senior leadership and operational roles respectively, both positions involve overseeing the accuracy and compliance of financial processes, leading teams, optimising payment and payroll operations, and collaborating closely with finance, procurement, operations, and senior stakeholders. Each role also participates in special projects to develop, improve, and maintain effective, efficient, and compliant practices, contributing to departmental goals and overall service delivery. The individuals must demonstrate strong adaptability to a continually evolving environment while effectively managing their teams.

Key Role Deliverables:

D365 AP Design & Controls

• Vendor onboarding/KYC/bank verification; maker-checker; SoD; audit trails
• 2/3-way match, tolerance rules, GR/IR ageing control, accruals hygiene
• DOA-aligned workflows, ERP-integrated payment runs
• Multi-entity standardization (vendor terms, COA mapping, intercompany discipline)

AI/RPA & Workflows

• IDP/OCR for invoice ingestion + coding suggestions + duplicate/anomaly detection
• RPA for vendor statement pulls, follow-ups, reconciliations
• Exception-led approval routing, escalations, SLA timers

Payments Governance & Compliance

• Policy ownership; exception approvals; evidence completeness

Bank master change controls (verification, cooling periods, alerts)

• Pre-payment validations (duplicates, sanctioned vendors, blocked/tolerance breaches)
• Alignment to US/UK & India GAAP evidence expectations

Vendor Experience & Portal

• Self-serve onboarding, invoice submission/status, disputes with SLAs
• Payment advice downloads; query reduction and SLA adherence

Control Tower & Rhythm

• Weekly exception/SLA reviews; monthly CFO value & controls review; quarterly Board/PE pack

M&A + Diligence Readiness

• Standardize vendor master & terms; integrate P2P onto D365 + portal; hypercare stabilization

Budget & Vendor Management

• Business cases & ROI for IDP/OCR, workflow, RPA, portal enhancements
• Select & govern implementation/automation/payments vendors; SLAs/OLAs & scorecards

Board/PE Pack – AP Focus

• Operating Metrics: Touchless %; first-pass yield; invoice-to-pay TAT; approval/dispute ageing; GR/IR ageing & unbilled receipts; discount capture; leakage prevention
• Governance: Payment exceptions/overrides; bank master changes; evidence completeness
• Risk & Actions: Top AP/control risks; audit observations and closure; tech/control debt
• Transformation: D365/automation release milestones; benefits vs plan (time saved, TAT, risk)

Decision Rights

• Approve P2P & payments governance policies/SOPs/control frameworks
• Own AP workflow/DOA and SoD design
• Prioritize AP automation roadmap & releases (with IT)
• Approve vendor governance actions; propose/allocate tower transformation budget

Success Measures (KPIs)

• Touchless invoices %, first-pass match %, invoice-to-pay TAT, approval ageing
• GR/IR ageing reduction; accrual hygiene; close readiness indicators
• Payment exceptions/overrides; bank master change compliance
• Vendor portal adoption; vendor query reduction; vendor satisfaction (CSAT)
• Audit observations reduction; evidence turnaround time
• Working capital (DPO) trend; discount capture; leakage reduction
• Transformation ROI: time saved, automation adoption, TAT improvements, risk reduction

Prerequisites:

• Proven track record in driving automation and digital transformation.
• Experience in managing audits and implementing internal controls.
• Passion for continuous learning and professional development.
• Extremely strong fundamentals in accounting
• Relationship Management with cross functions
• Proactive and entrepreneurial traits; and a willingness to grow and learn on daily basis
• Eye for detail
• Good interpersonal skills

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• CA (or CPA/ICWA/MBA-Fin) with 8–12+ years across AP/P2P, payments governance, controllership-adjacent ops
• Hands-on D365 Finance (AP) redesign/implementation, multi-entity/jurisdiction
• Strong in ICFR/SOX, audit readiness, and vendor management
• IDP/OCR, Power Automate/UI-based RPA, Power BI control towers, M&A integration

Compensation

The compensation structure will be as per industry standards