Roles & Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Development

- Supervise, mentor, and evaluate the AP team.
- Establish performance metrics (KPIs) and foster a collaborative, high-efficiency environment.

Workflow & Process Optimization

- Oversee the full cycle of AP processing, including invoice matching, coding, approvals, and disbursements.
- Drive automation and continuous improvement initiatives within the ERP system.

Financial Controls & Compliance

- Maintain, enforce, and improve AP policies and internal controls to mitigate risk and prevent fraud.
- Ensure compliance with GAAP and local tax regulations, such as 1099 reporting and W-9 management.

Cash Flow & Payment Management

- Manage weekly check runs, ACH/wire transfers, and credit card reconciliations.
- Collaborate with the Treasury team to optimize cash flow and maximize early payment discounts.

Month-End & Year-End Close

- Lead the AP month-end close process, which includes handling accruals, journal entries, and the reconciliation of AP aging reports to the general ledger.

KPI & Metrics Management

- Track and maintain core AP Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor department health and efficiency.
- Produce weekly and monthly KPI dashboards for executive leadership, highlighting metrics like Days Payable Outstanding (DPO), cost per invoice, invoice processing cycle time, and exception rates.
- Utilize KPI data to identify operational bottlenecks, implement corrective actions, and optimize team workloads.

Stakeholder & Vendor Relations

- Act as the primary escalation point for complex vendor inquiries, payment disputes,



and contract terms to ensure professional and timely resolution.
- Collaborate closely with internal department heads, procurement, and legal teams to streamline the end-to-end purchase-to-pay (P2P) process.

Candidate Profile

Education & Experience

- Education: Bachelors Degree in Accounting or an MBA.
- Experience: Minimum of 10-12 years of experience in accounts payable, invoice processing, or procure-to-pay.
- ERP Experience: 10+ years of experience working with financial ERP systems (such as SAP, JDE, and PeopleSoft).

Operational Preferences & Traits

- Detail-oriented, analytical, and leadership-driven leader.
- Possesses a deep understanding of accounting principles and a track record of driving process efficiencies through automation.
- Demonstrates the ability to manage workloads in a rapid-paced environment.
- Knowledge of Randstad operations and systems is considered an asset.
- Shift Flexibility: Must be flexible to support the US-EST time zone (currently supporting 17:30 PM to 02:30 AM IST), including adapting to daylight saving changes once every 6 months.

What Success Looks Like

- Accuracy: Maintaining a near-zero error rate in invoice posting.
- Timeliness: Reducing Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) by clearing bottlenecks in the approval workflow.
- Leadership:



Taking proactive ownership of issues from detection to resolution without needing constant supervision.

Key Skills

Technical & Financial Domain Expertise

- P2P Mastery: Robust understanding of full-cycle P2P financial mastery and accounting policies.
- ERP Systems: Advanced knowledge of ERP platforms like SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, JDE, PeopleSoft, and Coupa.
- Purchasing Tools: Exposure to cloud-based purchasing tools such as Coupa and Ariba.
- Data Analytics & Tools: Basic to advanced knowledge of MS Excel, including advanced functions like VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables.
- Ticketing Systems: Experience with support ticketing tools like ServiceNow or Zendesk is a plus (managing an average queue volume of 8001000 incidents per month).

Core Competencies

- Analytical Mindset: Ability to analyze spreadsheet data to identify trends and potential risks before they escalate.
- Process Improvement: A proven "proactive" edge for improving existing workflows rather than just following them.
- Problem Solving: Ability to troubleshoot issues and drive them to resolution.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for navigating sensitive vendor negotiations and interacting professionally via email/telephone with associates at every level.
- Customer Service: Strong capabilities in providing exceptional cross-functional customer service to internal and external stakeholders.

Job Type: Permanent

Shift Timings: 6:30pm to 3:30am

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Interested candidates drop your profile to [email protected]

📌 Hiring For Manager Accounts Payable - Invoicing, Payments (Hyderabad)
🏢 Randstad
📍 Hyderabad