Team Leader Accounts Payable

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Location: Noida Uttar Pradesh

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Date:22-Feb-2022

Location: Noida, South Asia, IN

Company:British Council

The British Council builds connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education and the English language.

We work in two ways – directly with individuals to transform their lives, and with governments and partners to make a bigger difference for the longer term, creating benefit for millions of people all over the world. We help young people to gain the skills, confidence and connections they are looking for to realise their potential and to participate in strong and inclusive communities. We support them to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications. Our work in arts and culture stimulates creative expression and exchange and nurtures creative enterprise. We connect the best of the UK with the world and the best of the world with the UK.

These connections lead to an understanding of each other’s strengths and of the challenges and values that we share. This builds trust between people in the UK and other nations which endures even when official relations may be strained. We work on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2019-20 we connected with 80 million people directly and with 791 million overall, including online and through our broadcasts and publications.

Job Title: Team Leader – Accounts Payable

Purpose of job:
  • Execute timely Vendor Payments Run on SAP as agreed with countries, T & E Settlement, GR/IR clearing and exceptions reporting, and other Accounts Payable compliances.
  • Providing timely, accurate and reliable accounting support to the countries served the team with respect to Accounts Payable matters
  • Focal point for regional/functional processing requests and incidents relating to Purchase to pay activities to the countries served the team.
  • Ensuring delivery of Accounts Payable service to levels of performance detailed in SLAs and/or OLAs.
  • Running FCCF control tests for mandatory areas under Purchase to Pay and generate reports for review by Regional Leads
  • Team management

Role context
This position is for managing Accounts payable process of different countries from SSC based in India.

Main opportunities/challenges for this role
Accountabilities, responsibilities and main duties:
  • Execute Vendor payments run and manual payment
  • Monitoring for block invoicing monitoring and OOS/ queries invoice
  • Follow up for payment rejection and BACS trace, Re issue of rejected / return payment
  • Execute T & E Settlement and T&E audit
  • GR/IR clearing, IR clearing
  • Provide monthly reports and daily exception reporting
  • GL clearing, raising journal
  • Vendor reconciliation review
  • Managing SLA and ensure P2P process in compliance with P2P principles
  • Drive process improvement
  • Providing timely, accurate and reliable accounting support to the countries served the team.
  • Focal point for regional/functional processing requests and incidents relating to Purchase to pay activities to the countries served the team
  • Team Management –Identification of team needs training / development, resource allocation and resolving team daily issues, team cross training and their succession plan, team mentoring , team building exercise and execute performance review
  • Managing customer escalation/ queries, attending customer focus group calls and process review calls, resolution of vendor queries, helpdesk assistance, reconciliation of large key accounts and timely payments to the level of performance defined in the service levels agreed for regions served by the shift team
  • Process change assessment, provide input to process improvement opportunity identification and analysis, deliver assigned changes to achieve process and performance improvement objectives
  • Review the quality of service delivered by means of periodic audit of completed work.

Information Security
  • Ensure that their workforce are aware of the information security policies and comply with them
  • Ensures that the team complies to ISO 27001 and IGA related requirements
  • Send account opening requests effectively
  • Disable accounts immediately for leavers and Absconders /on long leaves
  • Document and monitor / review access levels of his/her team
  • Provide security awareness and education to team
  • Manage Records to ensure compliance to Freedom of information act
  • Ensure incidents of their respective functions are closed within SLAs

Qualifications
Essential: Post-Graduate in commerce/M. Com
Desirable: Part Qualified (CA/CMA Inter)

Role specific knowledge and experience
  • Intermediate experience in Account Payable and General accounting with P2P process handling, service delivery as per agreed service levels and managing process delivery team.
  • Experience of working on ERP SAP
  • Financial accounting skills including book-keeping
  • Understanding the organisation and working pattern
  • Process management skills
  • Risk identification and management
  • SAP system skills
  • Communication skills
  • MS Excel, Word
  • Power Point

Further Information
Pay Band – 6
Contract Type – Indefinite
Department/Country- GSS Finance (Finance Transactions)/ India - Noida
Closing Date (Time) – 9th Mar’22 (IST -23:59)

A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

Equality , Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement

The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

The British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults who we work with.

We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989.

Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed; these will include qualification checks, reference checks, identity & criminal record checks in line with legal requirements and with the British Council’s Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.

If you have any problems with your application please email askhr@britishcouncil.org

Please note: Applications to this role can only be considered when made through the Apply section of our careers website. Our ‘ASK HR’ email is only to be used in case of a technical issue encountered when applying through the careers website. Emails with supporting statements and CV/Resumes sent to this email address will not be reviewed and will be deleted.
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Deadline: 13-06-2024

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