Bharti Infratel - Sr Manager - Finance Shared Services

The JD for the role is as under.

Drive and ensure Vendor account management and reconciliation as per approved guidelines:

- Correct Invoice booking under appropriate account codes

- Ensuring correct accounting

- Ensuring correct deduction of taxes

- Timely payout to vendors/employee as per defined SLA/TAT

- Timely closure of AP Module (Oracle Financial)

- Ensure all vendors invoices/ are in compliance with firm’s policies and guidelines.

- Identify process and/or system improvement opportunities, recommend solution, obtain necessary approval and assist with implementation.

Drive and ensure timely payment for Electricity Boards and Diesel Vendors as per approved guidelines:

- Correct Invoice booking under appropriate account codes

- Ensuring correct accounting

- Ensuring correct deduction of taxes

- Engage with the heads across other functional areas of the company, primarily with O and M and Technical Heads/Teams to gain inputs regarding the payment issues and resolving them.

- Ensure timely generation of the pre defined reports as per the Tat and SLA’s agreed with other function, (MR., FR, SCM, and Technical) along with some predefined data.

- Continuously engage with the IT team for ensuring smooth running of the automated payment and banking system and recommend improvements into the system in order to increase its effectiveness.

- Interact with the Business heads/teams at various circles to seek clarity in payment issues and resolve inconsistencies.

- Coordinate with Auditors to ensure timely closure of all pungency and issues.

- Establish good controls to ensure accurate and timely payments to Vendors.

- Ensure Maker and Checker Concept so as to ensure segregation of duties.

- Review the DTR with CSS Head on Monthly basis to ensure accurate data reporting

- Review Advance Aging and ensure no aged and doubtful advances in books.

- Establish KRI’s and KPI’s of the team and ensure their adherence.

- Analyze performance of teams, suggest measures for improvement & ensure their motivation and development.

- Initiate, develop and facilitate continuous improvement opportunities

- Over all responsible for preparation of monthly opex provisions for all BIL Circles

- Actualization of opex provisions.

- Preparing aging of opex provisions.

- Variance analysis of opex provisions.

- DTR & Expense schedule preparation.

- Prepaid expense schedule preparation.

- Support CSS team for process automation.

- Quality check & various controls to ensure correct payments.

- Handling Statutory Auditors & Internal Auditors queries.

Review of following various daily reports/dashboards:

- Daily quality check for high value transaction.

- Weekly review with circles on pending aged provisions.

- Weekly provisions report to be circulated.

- Weekly report on advance aging to all circles.

- Prepared Query Helpdesk where entire Infratel employees can raise queries pertaining to self claims or Vendor claims

- Query Helpdesk works on Ticket Management basis and each query gets assigned with one unique ticket number.

- Each ticket is monitored and resolved within SLA of 72 Hours by providing resolution to users.

- Worked as SPOC for CSS Accounts Payable function to get the internal and statutory audit completed

- Ensure timely data/schedules to be provided to auditors

- Ensure timely response to audit queries

- Ensure to keep re-visiting the existing processes to mitigate control issues

Candidate Profile:

- CA with 8 years of experience in the service industry in finance

- Experience of working on Oracle (mandatory)

- Good hands on experience in MS Excel, Powerpoint

- Excellent Analytical and Problem solving skills.

- Good numerical reasoning.

- Excellent Time management skills and ability to meet critical deadlines.

- Fast comprehension.

- Ability to exercise tact and good interpersonal skills.

Interested candidates may please share their CV along with current and expected CTC