Job Title: Junior Specialist – Accounts Payable
Location: Pune (Hybrid working)
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About the Role
The Accounts Payable Junior Specialist will be part of the Global Finance Shared Service Center and responsible for end-to-end Accounts Payable activities for global entities. The role requires strong understanding of Accounts Payable processes, accounting fundamentals, Procure-to-Pay (P2P) activities, and experience working in a global invoice processing environment. The individual will manage PO and Non-PO invoice processing, validating invoice details, ensuring accurate accounting entries, vendor payments, reconciliations and SAP-based accounting transactions while ensuring compliance with company policies and statutory regulations. The candidate should be detail-oriented, proactive, and capable of working in a fast-paced shared services environment while adhering to established procedures, service-level agreements (SLAs), and internal controls, and work in European shift timing i.e. 12.30 pm IST to 21.30 pm IST.
Role Responsibilities
•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.
•Open item management.
•Understand accounting impacts of vendor postings, including debit and credit entries.
•Maintain accurate documentation and audit trails.
•Ensure adherence to SOPs and internal controls.
•Work on Ad-Hoc requests.
Experience, Skills & Qualifications
•1-5 years of experience in Accounts Payable within shared services or multinational environments.
•Fluent in English (Verbal & Writing).
•Experience with SAP (preferably S4Hana), FI/MM.
•Strong understanding & experience on entire P2P process.
•Must be well organized, detail oriented and multitasking.
•Good knowledge of MS Office – Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
•Excel Automation like VBA / Macro creation would be an advantage.
Eligibility
In accordance with internal career movement guidance, 12 months in current role is a requirement before applying to a new role.
