Accountant - Accounts Payable - ICWA

Accountant - Accounts Payable Required (Qualified from ICWA)

- The Accountant will be responsible for ensuring that invoices are paid in a timely manner.

- Understand the business model, data Analysis & reporting, coordinate between upstream and downstream process.

Key Responsibilities:

Vendor Invoice Processing :

- Ensure timely updating of Invoice details in SAP, with material details and key references.

- Perform 3 way match once Workflow is created in SAP including Urgent request.

- Ensure the bank details are correct and liaise with purchaser / requester to arrange for permanent fix in Vendor Master

- Assist and ensure the duplicate is identified and ended without posting.

- Analyse Urgent request and check whether the request can be changed to normal basis vendor credit term.

- Ensure Withholding Tax is calculated correctly and accounted while posting the invoice.

- AP related India GST Analysis & Reconciliation between Vendor Register (GSTR 2A) Vs Purchase Register (Sub Ledger).

- Ensure booking all vendor invoices on time within Financial Year to take the input credit without any delay from Govt. Authorities

- Engaging with vendors for payment related matters, Payment block removal

- Coordinate with internal as well as external stakeholders to ensure local, global and legal requirements are met.

- Co-ordinate and work with stakeholders to ensure timely payment to MSME vendors.

- Ensure compliance with the SOX narratives, management guidelines related to expense approvals and FCPA guided compliance policies.

Employee Claims Processing:

- Ensure timely processing of employee claims with compliance to the T&E policy.

- Ensure maintenance of various audit rule in Concur.

- Resolution of employee queries related to claims.

Statutory Dues:

- Assist the Tax and payroll accountant in payment of taxes and other statutory dues.

- Ensure timely payment of customs duty and correct accounting of Input Tax credit against the Bill of Enty

Month End and audit Activities:

- Ensure proper accounting of Prepaid expenses and maintain the amortisation schedule.

- Ensure accrual of expenses by collection information through open PO / open commitments and collating information from purchaser or requester.

- Assist timely clearing of Advances by liaising with purchaser/ requester when invoice is posted against down payment.

- Review and clearing of GRIR account.

- Pass the necessary entries for cost allocations

- Assist the FP&A team in the variance analysis of operating expenses.

- Support the account manager during statutory and internal audits for Accounts payable area.

Key skills for the role:

Technical skills:

- Good IT skills (Microsoft Excel, Word, Access)

- Graduate qualified accountant with strong academic background

- Demonstrable track record in a similarly complex role

- Experience in logistics business would be advantageous

- SAP Knowledge

Soft skills:

Key requirements (in addition to normal qualifications)

- Track record of delivering all aspects of accounting/systems controls across a variety of activities in a business

- Able to combine commercial knowledge and technical financial expertise

- Ability to work as part of a large multinational organization, capable of influencing and understanding global view

- Strong interpersonal skills particularly motivational and communication skills