Position: Financial Consultant

Location: Chennai/Puttur, AP - Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Shift: 8.00AM - 5.00PM PST (US Pacific Time)

Job Summary: We are looking for an experienced Financial Consultant with strong Accounts Payable (AP), dispute management, reconciliation, and accounting process knowledge.

The ideal candidate should have experience working in a high-volume, fast-paced, and demanding finance environment, managing multiple priorities while coordinating with internal stakeholders across Finance, Procurement, Operations, Sales, Business Units, and other departments.

The candidate must understand the end-to-end accounting lifecycle, including upstream and downstream processes, and be capable of identifying the financial and operational impact of AP transactions, disputes, reconciliations, and process gaps.

Key Responsibilities

Accounts Payable

- Manage and oversee high-volume Accounts Payable transactions with strong focus on accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
- Review invoices, purchase orders, receipts, payment terms, and supporting documentation.
- Handle 3-way matching between Purchase Orders, Goods/Service Receipts, and Invoices.
- Investigate invoice exceptions, blocked invoices, duplicate invoices, pricing discrepancies, and payment issues.
- Monitor AP aging, outstanding invoices, and payment-related exceptions.
- Ensure timely resolution of invoices to meet agreed SLA and payment timelines.
- Identify recurring AP issues and recommend process improvements.

Dispute Management

- Own and manage invoice and payment-related disputes from identification through resolution.
- Investigate discrepancies involving pricing, quantity, tax, purchase orders, contracts, receipts, credits, and payments.
- Coordinate with Procurement, Vendors, Business Units, Receiving, Finance, and other stakeholders to resolve disputes.
- Maintain dispute trackers, aging, root causes, ownership, and resolution status.
- Escalate critical or long-pending disputes appropriately.




- Identify trends and recurring dispute drivers and recommend corrective actions.

Reconciliation

- Perform regular account and transaction reconciliations.
- Reconcile vendor statements, AP sub-ledger, general ledger, payments, credits, and outstanding balances.
- Investigate and resolve reconciliation differences and aged open items.
- Support month-end and year-end close activities.
- Ensure accurate accounting records and timely closure of outstanding items.
- Coordinate with General Accounting and other Finance teams to resolve reconciliation issues.

Upstream & Downstream Accounting Process:

- Understand how AP transactions originate and flow through the broader accounting process.
- Understand upstream processes such as:

- Procurement

- Purchase Requisitions

- Purchase Orders

- Vendor Management

- Goods/Service Receipts

- Contracts
- Understand downstream processes such as:

- Accounts Payable

- Payments

- General Ledger

- Accruals

- Reconciliations
- Month-End Close

- Financial Reporting
- Identify how upstream process gaps can create downstream accounting issues.
- Work cross-functionally to resolve issues at the root cause rather than only correcting individual transactions.

Stakeholder Management

- Work closely with multiple internal stakeholders and departments to resolve financial issues.
- Coordinate with Procurement, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Business Units, Treasury, Vendor Management, and other teams.
- Handle challenging conversations and conflicting priorities professionally.
- Drive issues to closure while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
- Provide regular status updates on critical, aged, and high-value issues.





Required Skills

- Strong experience in Accounts Payable and accounting operations.
- Hands-on experience managing high-volume financial transactions.
- Strong experience in dispute management and issue resolution.
- Strong reconciliation and account analysis skills.
- Good understanding of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and end-to-end accounting processes.
- Understanding of upstream and downstream dependencies within Finance and Accounting.
- Experience with invoice processing, 2-way/3-way matching, payment processing, vendor statements, and AP aging.
- Strong knowledge of month-end close and financial reconciliation.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, lookups, filtering, and data analysis.
- Experience working with ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics 365, or similar.
- High-Pressure / High-Volume Environment
- Comfortable working in a high-volume and deadline-driven workplace.
- Ability to handle multiple urgent issues simultaneously without compromising accuracy.
- Capable of working under pressure during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close.
- Strong prioritization and time-management skills.
- Ability to remain calm and solution-oriented when dealing with escalations and difficult stakeholders.
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive issues through to resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Professional qualifications such as CA, CMA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent are an advantage.
- Experience with Oracle Fusion Financials, SAP FI, NetSuite, or other major ERP platforms.
- Experience with shared services, Global Business Services (GBS), or large-scale Finance Operations environments.
- Experience with AP automation and workflow tools is a plus.
- Knowledge of internal controls, audit requirements, and SOX controls is desirable.

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