Hindi Speaking Accounts Payable Team Lead - Worcestershire

Hindi Speaking Accounts Payable Team Lead - Worcestershire

Current eligibility to live and work in the UK is required. This is a contract to permanent opportunity and after successful completion of the contract a permanent job will be offered. A great opportunity with a global telecommunications provider to really define this new role.

Skills & Experience

- Qualified accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in India, preferably with a tax specialism
- Experience with providing advice for Withholding Tax treatment
- Good level of IT skills, Excel/Word.
- Good understanding of an Accounts Payable module
- Hindi language skills
- An understanding of how business works in India is essential for this role

Job Summary

This is a newly created role and the incumbent has the chance to really define, take ownership and organically grow within the role. Responsible for supervising and leading a small team of Accounts Payable (AP) analysts supporting India legal entities, for transaction processing for the AP ledgers, delivering timely and accurate data, ensuring that controls are in place, reconciliations are to a high quality and that supplier payments are controlled and executed to timetable. Provide advice on Withholding Tax (WHT) treatment for invoices

Duties & Responsibilities

- End to End Accounts Payable functions (Data Entry & Validations, Data correction, Holds Management, Vendor Management)
- Provide advice on WHT treatment for AP invoices and review transactions for correct WHT
- Matching of invoices to orders
- Manage, coach and develop a team of 4 analysts
- Escalate and communicate non-compliance of processes by internal customers.
- Review month end reports with AP Analysts, taking appropriate actions. (Logged Invoices, On Hold Invoices, Pre Payments, Credit Notes)
- Problem and issue resolution to allow analysts to smoothly process standard items.
- Ensure sufficient skill base and that all tasks and areas of ledgers have dual coverage. (Holidays/Sickness & Language)
- Ensure payment runs to suppliers are made to timetable.
- Ensure processing of invoices and credit notes is to SLA terms (3 days from receipt).
- Undertake supplier account reconciliations to ensure the integrity of the AP ledger
- Chase line management for outstanding invoices.
- Minimize legal actions and if they arise, rectify in a timely manner.
- Undertake ad-hoc projects as required by the role.