Global Accounts Receivable is looking for a proactive, people and customer - centric Finance Manager to manage the Global Vendor Credits Process covering geographies and complexities of an e – invoicing VAT regime. This role involves installing right internal controls and adherence to company policies with high level of operational delivery discipline and effective collaboration across teams. Broad responsibilities of this role would be to ensure vendor payables accounts are deducted and used against clearing the receivables in AR sub-ledgers. The role requires continuous process improvement focus, addressing questions and curiosity, diving below the surface to identify the root cause and the “so what” with data insights. The role needs to continuously manage and motivate team towards high performance delivery and build relationships with stakeholders across the globe.
Key job responsibilities
• Responsible for Global Vendor Credits receipt, validation, processing and rejection process including geographies and complexities of an e – invoicing VAT regime.
• Ensure that Credits received from vendors/customers are applied accurately and timely to receivable accounts.
• Work closely with Collections, Retail, Business Partners and/or other internal stakeholders to ensure that issues, if any with credit postings and applications are resolved in a timely manner.
• Drive regular process deep dives and build mechanisms to identify process/systemic/technical issues and work with Business Partners to effectively address these.
• Identify process improvement and automation opportunities and work with respective functions to implement these opportunities.
• Simplifying operational complexities through innovative long-term solutions.
• Proactively resolve complex outstanding issues with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure company policies and procedures are followed and team is adequately trained on these requirements.
• Review, audit and approve transactions as per company policy.
• Create a “learn by doing” environment by engaging the analysts, ensure productivity is maximized through supervision, training, analysis, and feedback of performance data shared on a periodic basis.
• Managing annual performance targets, creating and monitoring appropriate performance metrics.
• Foster the culture of Invent and Simplify within the team and deliver Six sigma projects with an aim to optimize process outputs.
• Create and support effective development plans to prepare employees for their next role.
• Developing metrics for continuous tracking of process and team efficiency.
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Bachelor's degree, or MBA
- Knowledge of Tableau