As an Associate Director Accounts Payable and Travel & Expenses supporting the FRA Process Excellence team, you will provide direction/oversight for Accounts Payable, Disbursement, and T&E activities.

• Strengthens capabilities of the AP team and business partners by identifying, developing, and overseeing talent.
• Drives operational excellence, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Ensures agreed service levels (SLA) and KPI targets for the Business function are met
• Ensures accounting policies & procedures adherence and deliverables are completed on time.
• Ensures team members maintain appropriate standards of competence to perform day-to-day processing and issue resolution.
• Cultivates a culture that is customer service focused. Drive Operational Excellence initiatives within the BLR center and enhance the culture of Continuous Improvement.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders, and business partners including accounting authorities/auditors
• Collaborates within FRA to gain best practices insights to measure and improve operations and leverage project efforts
• Works to ensure a diverse and inclusive environment free from all forms of discrimination and harassment.
• Manages Day to Day activities
• Owns and drives future productivity improvements to achieve efficiency and effectiveness targets year over year
• Ensures through the team that reconciliations are completed for matching of system reports to balances, and that the right cost centers are charged.
• Ensure payments to vendors & employees are completed on time and accurately.
• Ensures the completeness of team’s work and manages escalations appropriately.
• Maintains high engagement levels in the team and across key stakeholders / business partners.
• Management reporting as necessary
• She/he will also support FRA Head in building and developing talent, and drive a continuous improvement mindset in the organization and develop and execute training in the areas of process excellence, Financial IT systems, technical accounting, internal controls and fraud awareness
• Ensuring the Statutory & Regulatory Tax compliances.
• Extended support in Statutory and internal Audit.
• Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
• Ensures adherence to segregation of duties

• Education: University degree, preferably Bachelor of Accounting /Commerce
• Advanced level of English
• +10 years of relevant financial experience with an outsourcing or Shared service organization is essential. Team management experience is critical including Performance management and career development of Associates
• SOX knowledge and clarity about accounting internal controls/audit
• Collaborative and Influencing skills
• Excellent MS Office skills and SAP knowledge
• Financial Reporting & Accounting (Strong knowledge and experience in A2P)
• Business Partnering
• Compliance & Control