Manager-accounts Payable-us Transition Job in Jubilant Business Services Limited

Job Summary

Purpose of the job is to setup and provide operational direction and thought leadership in all the areas of Procure to Pay with an objective to bring efficiency within the processes and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships within North America and India.

Reports To

General Manager Shared Services (P2P and O2C)

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the transitions of Procure to Pay (P2P) from North America and India ensuring strong understanding of the business and current landscape
• Lead the operations for P2P, at Greater Noida, by setting up a high performing organization that delivers to business expectations, leading a team of 15+ including 2 direct reports
• Baseline existing process, Develop and implement standard KPI/Metrics, Service Levels that support business decision making and consistent governance
• Proven track record of developing a business impact based operating paradigms to focus on stakeholder results such as but not limited to: invoice processing turn-around, Paid-on time, First Pass Quality, GRIR clearance
• Develop a strong cadence with business stakeholders to consistently evaluate the performance of shared service against established targets.
• Proactively raise operational issues and reporting to functional managers and ensuring timely corrective actions working closely within team and Supply chain and Plant operations
• Build and implement process to ensure 100% Compliance. Further, should be able to anticipate risk & proactively suggest the measures to mitigate the risks.
• Proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvements and successfully manage the projects to contribute to the effectiveness of the operations using lean six-sigma tools
• Lead standardization of the processes across businesses, development and maintenance of desktop procedures/SOPs
• Ability to conceptualize operational dashboard to report pending invoices, pending GRs, open reconciliation items, amongst other.
• Understanding of technologies like OCR, scanning and indexing etc

Operational Requirements

• Flexible to travel within and outside India 10% - 20%
• Flexibility in working night shift to support North America business needs.

The Person

Qualifications
& Experience

• Accountant Graduate/Post Graduate/Qualified accountant with 8+ years of experience in Procure to Pay operations for NA and India.
• Strong experience in setting up and running a shared service within Finance, preferably Pharma Industry, having dealt with stakeholders around the globe.
• Working knowledge of SAP and good knowledge on GST related provisions
• Ability to lead cross functional teams.

Personal Characteristics

• A result-driven individual, has the ability to understand business needs, provide operational/strategic support, and is solution oriented.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization.
• An excellent people manager and leader; able to recruit, develop and retain a high calibre team across diverse departments.
• Able to work effectively within a global business culture whilst also adaptable to the local cultural environment.
• Ability to energise his/her team with a clear vision of the business
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills