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Description

Global Accounts Receivable is looking for a proactive, people and customer - centric Finance Manager to manage the Global Vendor Credits Process covering geographies and complexities of an e – invoicing VAT regime. This role involves installing right internal controls and adherence to company policies with high level of operational delivery discipline and effective collaboration across teams. Broad responsibilities of this role would be to ensure vendor payables accounts are deducted and used against clearing the receivables in AR sub-ledgers. The role requires continuous process improvement focus, addressing questions and curiosity, diving below the surface to identify the root cause and the “so what” with data insights. The role needs to continuously manage and motivate team towards high performance delivery and build relationships with stakeholders across the globe.

Key job responsibilities

• Responsible for Global Vendor Credits receipt, validation, processing and rejection process including geographies and complexities of an e – invoicing VAT regime.

• Ensure that Credits received from vendors/customers are applied accurately and timely to receivable accounts.

• Work closely with Collections, Retail, Business Partners and/or other internal stakeholders to ensure that issues, if any with credit postings and applications are resolved in a timely manner.

• Drive regular process deep dives and build mechanisms to identify process/systemic/technical issues and work with Business Partners to effectively address these.

• Identify process improvement and automation opportunities and work with respective functions to implement these opportunities.

• Simplifying operational complexities through innovative long-term solutions.

• Proactively resolve complex outstanding issues with internal and external stakeholders.

• Ensure company policies and procedures are followed and team is adequately trained on these requirements.

• Review, audit and approve transactions as per company policy.

• Create a “learn by doing” environment by engaging the analysts, ensure productivity is maximized through supervision, training, analysis, and feedback of performance data shared on a periodic basis.

• Managing annual performance targets, creating and monitoring appropriate performance metrics.

• Foster the culture of Invent and Simplify within the team and deliver Six sigma projects with an aim to optimize process outputs.

• Create and support effective development plans to prepare employees for their next role.

• Developing metrics for continuous tracking of process and team efficiency.

A day in the life

Manage the team and collaborate cross vertically to deliver on process goals and improvements. Partner with ACES, FinTech and FinAuto to continuously oversee implementation of process improvements and automation opportunities towards process stability and scalability.

About the team

Amazon Global Vendor Credits team is a finance operation team that processes the Credit notes issued by the vendors/customers. This team works closely with Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable team to deliver on the process goals and accounting team for financial data reporting. The team continuously improves the process and strengthens the systems by working closely with multiple stakeholders and business partners across the globe such as Retail, Collection, PMO, FinTech and FinAuto teams.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Hyderabad, TS, IND

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Business.

• In depth knowledge of Order to Cash Process.

• 10+ years of experience in Accounts Receivables and/or Accounts Payables with at least 5 years of people management experience.

• 5+ years of experience implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience.

• Experience with basic web-based tools and products like Outlook, Excel, Word and SharePoint.

• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization.

• Proven experience in identifying and driving process improvements and operational efficiency projects.

• Demonstrated ability to manage large and diverse team, work cross-functionally and build consensus on difficult issues.

• Managerial skills to handle problems, situations and crisis in a confident and decisive manner.

• Ability to take difficult decisions and calculated risks and experiment new approaches.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and communicate clearly and effectively with the team.

• Demonstrated bias for action with strengths in problem solving and issue-resolution.

• Ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment with an attention to detail and ability to multitask.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Accounting/Finance/Business.

• Chartered Accountant (CA) with experience of handling large teams shall be preferred.

• Ability to manage ambiguous situation and projects.

• Experience working with a high-growth, fast paced company.