Junior Specialist- Accounts Payable

Overview

Junior Specialist in Accounts Payable within the Global Finance Shared Service Center, handling end-to-end AP activities for global entities.

What you'll do

• Process PO and Non-PO invoices accurately and within agreed timelines.
• Review and validate invoices for completeness, accuracy, appropriate approvals, and compliance with company policies.
• Verify purchase orders, goods receipts, invoice details, payment terms, and vendor information before posting.
• Perform invoice posting in SAP, ensuring accurate GL coding, cost center allocation, and accounting treatment.
• Process domestic, international, and intercompany invoices for global entities.
• Handle invoice exceptions, discrepancies, blocked invoices, and rejected cases, coordinating with relevant stakeholders for resolution.
• Manage recurring entries, credit notes, debit notes, and reversal postings.
• Understand basic accounting principles, including debit and credit entries and the accounting impact of vendor transactions.
• Perform vendor account reconciliations and open-item management, including investigation and resolution of outstanding items.
• Respond to vendor and internal stakeholder queries related to invoice status, payment status, discrepancies, and pending approvals.
• Maintain accurate documentation and audit trails.
• Ensure adherence to SOPs and internal controls.
• Work on Ad-Hoc requests.

What you'll need

• 1-5 years of experience in Accounts Payable within shared services or multinational environments.
• Fluent in English (verbal and writing).
• Experience with SAP (preferably S4Hana), FI/MM.
• Strong understanding and experience of the entire P2P process.
• Well organized, detail oriented and multitasking.
• Good knowledge of MS Office: Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Nice to have

• Excel automation such as VBA / Macro creation would be an advantage.

Details

• Location: Pune (hybrid working).
• Works European shift timing, 12:30 pm IST to 21:30 pm IST.
• Eligibility: 12 months in current role is required before applying to a new role, per internal career movement guidance.