Accounts Payable Manager with 11+ years of experience managing Invoice Processing, Payments, Vendor Master Data and Travel & Expenses. Results-driven multitasker with excellent listening and communication skills. Aspiring to utilize my strong work ethics, looking forward to apply my skillsets and knowledge while contributing to the success of the team and organization.
· The Vendor master data team receives the request from Clients/Suppliers and Invoice processing team to create the Vendor setup or amending the supplier records to the existing suppliers
· Checking all the compliance requirements on the invoice/supplier request form/Supplier registration questionnaire
· Interact with Supplier/Clients to obtain the required details to create the vendor ID’s.
· Post confirmation of the supplier or client the vendor ID will be created/amended in the system.
· Extract the block and unblock report to know the status of the suppliers
· Extract the Inactive Vendors and mark them Inactive if no transactions by checking with the stakeholders.
· Prepare the quality metrics of the team members and share the score card.
· Handling the Corporate Cards and Expense process.
· Perform work allocation (Expense reports & Tickets) to the team.
· Handling critical process of card limit like increase or decrease, card block or unblock, card application approval as per the request through tickets and emails.
· Responding to any support tickets in ServiceNow or via email regarding Corp Card issues/Expense report queries.
· Serving as back up to related process by providing support to all functional areas and resolving escalated queries of the customers to ensure smoothness of daily operations.
· Handling payment failures for regions (Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and South Asia)
· Analyzing the reasons for rejections and returns from bank and taking corrective actions for reinitiating the payments.
· Coordinating with suppliers and country controllers to get the details required and providing statement when requested.
· Working with vendor master data for updating bank details in the system.
· Reconciliation of payment remittance advice after payment run executions.
· Analyzing of blocked invoices, system block and manual block for clearance
· Reviewing of aged items, WIP documents and taking required action.
· Providing weekly and monthly reports of payment failure and ageing items in country wise.
· Preparing and scheduling the normal weekly payment and urgent proposal for vendors and customers.
· Providing audit samples and responding to audit queries
· Reviewing the payment exceptions and reporting the same to the respective team and clients
· Handling payment rejection and returns
· Handling queries regarding the payments received from the country vie E-mail (GMB) and SNOW tickets.
· Building and implementing the trackers as per business requirements and process controls
· Review and updating BOP’s and DTPs on regular intervals
· Remote transition to Payment’s process for North America Region.
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