Role purpose

Lead a multi-country accounts payable workstream with robust operational, control and tax awareness. The role owns AP service quality from invoice intake through payment and reconciliation, resolves complex exceptions, oversees payment-run readiness, guides team, partners with Tax, Treasury and Procurement, and drives standardisation and automation across legal entities and currencies.

Key responsibilities
- Own day-to-day AP delivery for assigned countries, legal entities, currencies and payment calendars, balancing close, payment and service priorities.
- Review complex PO/non-PO invoices, credit notes, prepayments, recurring invoices, intercompany charges and cross-border transactions.
- Oversee invoice matching, approvals, coding, tax treatment and posting quality; define clear exception-routing and ageing practices.
- Review payment proposals and supporting controls before authorised approval, including due-date logic, cash/credit optimisation, duplicate checks, holds, credits, bank-data validation and payment-method requirements.




- Coordinate with Treasury on funding, currency, payment cut-offs, rejected payments and bank/platform issues while preserving segregation of duties.
- Maintain country requirement matrices covering invoice validity, VAT/GST, withholding tax/TDS, reverse charge, and required documentation.
- Identify tax and regulatory risk in cross-border payments and ensure appropriate review of withholding, treaty documentation, gross-up clauses, import-of-service or reporting requirements.
- Own AP close quality, including AP-to-GL reconciliations, supplier statement reconciliation governance, cut-off, accrual inputs, aged liabilities, advances, and debit balances.
- Resolve escalated supplier disputes, high-value or aged invoice issues, payment failures and sensitive internal queries.
- Design and maintain SOPs, approval matrices, desk procedures, evidence standards and business-continuity arrangements.
- Lead workflow, OCR, e-invo

📌 Accounts Payable Team Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sapiens
📍 Bengaluru