Lead AP Coordinator

Location - Pune

Department Finance Accounts Payable

Position Summary Lead AP Coordinator is responsible for supporting the end-to-end accounts payable process, ensuring timely and accurate processing of invoices, vendor payments, and financial records in compliance with company policies and controls.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and support an AP team in India
- Manage the full payment run process
- Vendor management experience
- Intermediate Excel skills
- Full Accounts Payable experience
- Processing both PO and non-PO invoices
- Process and validate vendor invoices, ensuring accuracy and proper coding
- Manage invoice intake, approvals, and workflow tracking
- Reconcile vendor statements and resolve discrepancies
- Respond to vendor and internal inquiries regarding payment status
- Maintain accurate AP records and supporting documentation
- Assist with month-end close activities (accruals, reporting, reconciliations)
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and audit requirements
- Partner with Finance, Procurement, and Vendor Management teams

Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 6+ years of experience in Accounts Payable or Finance operations
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP)
- Robust attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to manage high-volume transactions and deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in Shared Services or global finance operations
- Exposure to vendor onboarding and compliance processes




- Knowledge of US and/or international payment processes
- Support vendor onboarding (W-9, banking details, compliance checks)
- Excel proficiency
- Skilled in managing AP payment cycles, including batch review, payment file validation, and timely disbursement across checks, wires, and ACH

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMHs digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions. Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMHs greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMHs partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMHs and our customers.

We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and a creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. Our team will find ways to work together, create a sense of community where its safe to take risks and learn together, develop our careers, and all have an opportunity to work on new technologies. We will work together, learn together and have fun together. As a team, we will lead HMHs digital transformation.

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