06 Aug
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Businessnext
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Noida
06 Aug
Businessnext
Noida
What would you do:
1. Billing & Invoicing Ownership
- Own the end-to-end billing cycle across all entities subscription/SaaS licence fees, implementation and AMC renewals;
- Ensure invoices are raised accurately and on time against contractual triggers: milestones, delivery sign-offs, go-lives, renewal dates, and billing calendars;
- Read and interpret customer contracts, SOWs, POs and amendments to translate commercial terms into correct billing schedules, tax treatment, and payment terms;
- Maintain a clean billing master customer master data, contract repository, billing schedules, and rate cards with no revenue leakage from missed or delayed invoicing
- Manage e-invoicing and e-way bill compliance for domestic billing and correct treatment for export invoices
2. Collections & Receivables Management
- Drive collections across the global customer base; own DSO, collection efficiency, and ageing outcomes as primary performance metrics
- Run a structured, disciplined follow-up cadence with internal stakeholders to drive collection efforts;
- Partner with Sales, Delivery and Operations to unblock disputed, held-up, or at-risk invoices and resolve the underlying commercial issue;
- Prepare and present AR ageing, collection and billing forecasts, and cash inflow projections to leadership on a defined rhythm;
- Manage customer account reconciliations, balance confirmations, TDS/withholding tax credit reconciliation, and timely clearing of unapplied receipts and on-account balances
3. Milestones, Unbilled & Revenue Support
- Track project milestones and delivery status with the Delivery and PMO teams to ensure timely conversion of unbilled revenue into invoiced receivables;
- Maintain and review the unbilled revenue and deferred revenue schedules; ensure ageing unbilled balances are actively chased down
- Support revenue recognition workings in line with IGAAP/ Ind AS 115 principles for multi-element SaaS and services arrangements;
- Provide accurate inputs for ARR/MRR, renewals, and churn-related reporting from a billing and receivables standpoint
4. Global AR Operations & Compliance
- Centrally manage AR for India and all international subsidiaries (US, Canada, Singapore, Middle East,
and other geographies), ensuring a consistent process and control framework
- Handle multi-currency receivables, FX gain/loss on settlement, and revaluation of foreign currency AR balances
- Ensure correct GST treatment on domestic and export invoices, LUT compliance, credit notes etc
- Coordinate with global banking partners on inward remittances, receipt identification, and prompt application of collections
5. Payroll Accounting & Consultant Coordination
- Act as the finance owner for the outsourced payroll consultant review the consultant's payroll outputs against the monthly inputs shared by HR (attendance, CTC, etc.), and sign off registers before disbursal across all entities
- Validate the monthly payroll register for new joiners, exits, salary revisions, incentives, arrears, LOP, and reimbursements before payment release
- Execute and control salary disbursals within agreed timelines, with strict maker-checker discipline and zero tolerance for error
- Own payroll accounting — salary and benefits booking, accruals, provisions (bonus, leave encashment, gratuity), and reconciliation of payroll GL accounts to the register
- Ensure statutory payroll compliances are deposited and filed on time — TDS on salaries, PF, ESI, PT, LWF — and reconcile challans and returns; track equivalent obligations for overseas entities with local partners
- Manage full-and-final settlements, Form 16 coordination, employee payroll queries escalated to finance, and audit support on payroll
- Maintain absolute confidentiality and data security on all compensation and payroll information
6. Close, Reporting & Controls
- Own AR and payroll month-end close — schedules, accruals, provisions, and reconciliations delivered accurately within agreed close timelines
- Build and maintain internal controls across O2C and payroll — segregation of duties, approval matrices, credit note authorisation, and periodic review of write-offs
- Own AR and payroll deliverables for statutory, internal, tax and customer audits; respond to auditor queries with complete, well-documented workings
7. Process Improvement & Automation
- Identify and eliminate manual dependencies; drive automation of billing, dunning, cash application, and reconciliation workflows
- Help build a scalable O2C infrastructure capable of supporting 3–5x business growth without a proportional increase in headcount
- Define and track KPIs — DSO, collection efficiency, ageing buckets, billing accuracy and TAT, unbilled ageing, payroll accuracy and on-time disbursal
- Mentor and guide junior team members as the function scales; build capability across systems, compliance, and customer handling
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION / SKILLS REQUIRED
- Chartered Accountant with 2–6 years of post-qualification experience in Accounts Receivable / Order-to-Cash, preferably with exposure to payroll accounting
- Hands-on experience in a SaaS or technology product environment — subscription billing, milestone-based invoicing, unbilled and deferred revenue, and renewals
- Strong collections track record with demonstrable impact on DSO and ageing; comfortable engaging customers and internal stakeholders directly on money matters
- Working knowledge of IGAAP/ Ind AS 115 revenue recognition principles for multi-element arrangements
- Sound understanding of GST, e-invoicing, TDS/withholding tax, and export receivable compliances (FIRC/BRC, FEMA etc)
- Familiarity with payroll statutory framework — TDS on salaries, PF, ESI, PT — and experience coordinating with outsourced payroll providers
- Solid command over ERP systems (NetSuite or similar) and advanced Excel; exposure to billing or collections automation tools is an advantage
- Experience supporting multi-entity, multi-currency operations across geographies
- High ownership, detail-oriented and process-driven, with the maturity to handle confidential information and the persistence to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
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