Manager – Account Payable & Cost Control

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensuring proper onboarding of vendors with all necessary documentation in place
• Ensuring proper quality checks on the Vendor Partner Invoices and creditor outstanding reports
• Resolving Vendor Queries and 1st level escalations within TAT.
• Proactively raising alert to Department head for possible escalations and issues related Vendors
• Maintaining and Monitoring of AP & Cost control related Master Trackers for correctness of data with Actual.
• Supporting the internal and external stakeholders with required reports around AP and Cost control
• Properly verifying and Approving Payment Batches on a timely manner.
• Regular engagement with Finance team around cash flow for partner payout planning.
• Preparing and submitting week by week Vendor payout plans to finance team for all Direct expenses.
• Verifying & sending Creditors Ageing Report to respective stakeholders.
• Coordinating with internal stakeholders to ensure closure of dependent tasks within agreed TAT.
• Verifying thoroughly all internal AP reporting prepared by the team.
• Regularly evaluating Cost Savings opportunities from Vendor Partners.
• To ensure Vendor Reconciliation is done on Monthly basis.
• To ensure Balance Confirmation from Vendors are procured on a Quarterly Basis.
• Regular engagement with top 20 Vendor partners.
• Tracking of GP & its Variance analysis.
• Managing the Team to ensure process adherence and optimum Efficiency & Productivity
• Weekly Management Reporting using Dashboards and PPT.
• Being involved in AP Automation initiatives.