Senior Executive Accounts Payable

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.

Purpose Of Job

Provides processing service for payables and vendor payments assisting in improving efficiency of operations and to meet the agreed service levels.
Role context

This is senior role in AP next to TL. Associate to act as team lead & step up to provide support to Sr Manager in absence of Team Lead.

Main opportunities/challenges for this role

Accountabilities, Responsibilities, And Main Duties
• Perform invoice processing, clearance of blocked invoices and execute down payment in absence of executive
• Preparation of month end reports and support to team lead for submission of month end reports and analysis
• Reconciliation and clearance of open item in GR/IR account
• Rejection & Reissue
• Half Yearly ESG Updation to support completion of process mapping and documentation
• Resolution of all incorrect invoice processing within SLA
• Resolution of GSD queries within SLA
• Manual / salary / off system payments within SLA
• Recovery of all over/duplicate payments
• Review and closure of open PO
• Follow up for queries invoices to ensure clearance in 7 days
• Ensure SLA compliance and accuracy
• Journal Parking
• Partner with Line Manager for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on issues / escalations.
• Provide input to process improvement opportunity identification and analysis
• Gather and validate performance information
• Mentor to new joinees
• Active Back Up for TL for process Management
• Any adhoc requirements for AP process

Role Specific Knowledge And Experience
• Intermediate experience in process handling related to specific responsible areas and capable of delivery as per agreed service levels.
• Financial accounting skills including book-keeping
• SAP system skills
• Communication skills
• MS Excel