Posted By
Charu Srivastava
Manager - Talent Acquisition at Pernod Ricard India Private Limited
Last Active: 22 September 2025
409
Posted in
Banking & Finance
Job Code
1602697
Finance (COE Accounts Payable)
JOB SUMMARY:
Part of the Centre of Excellence (COE) Accounts Payable (AP) team with involvement across key activities such as PAN India Purchase Order (PO) validations, month-end closing, and coordination with cross-functional teams for audit readiness and process clarifications.
Also acts as a backup for processing various statutory payments, including GST, TDS, TCS, VAT, CST, Label Registration, Import Fees, and Excise Duty, ensuring compliance and traceability.
Responsibilities include maintaining MIS, managing challan archival/retrieval, and supporting foreign payments in alignment with banking and FEMA guidelines, with a focus on minimizing overdues.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Validate PAN India Purchase Orders (POs) in line with Delegation of Authority (DOA) and standard checklists, ensuring adherence to defined SLAs (2 days for OPEX, 3 days for CAPEX).
- Drive and sustain strong PO validation performance by monitoring SLA compliance and proactively resolving exceptions.
- Serve as the first backup for statutory payments, including Excise Duty, GST, TDS, TCS, VAT, CST, Label Registration, and Import Fees, ensuring readiness and compliance.
- Support the accounting and processing of Excise Duty and related statutory payments, as and when required.
- Maintain clean and accurate GLs for Excise and other duties through regular reviews and reconciliations.
- Participate in month-end closing activities, ensuring timely posting, reconciliations, and compliance with internal timelines.
- Track and report daily productivity and SLA adherence, contributing to process transparency and efficiency improvements.
- Ensure systematic archival and easy retrieval of Excise and statutory challans, supporting audits and business continuity.
- Prepare and consolidate SLA and performance data for the entire AP vertical, ensuring completeness and accuracy for reporting.
- Support processing of foreign vendor payments in alignment with banking procedures and FEMA guidelines, minimizing overdues.
- Liaise with cross-functional teams such as Supply Chain, Factory Operations, and Regional Finance to address queries and ensure seamless service delivery.
- Assist in internal, statutory, and external audits by providing timely documentation and clarifications.
- Contribute to automation, process improvement, and simplification initiatives across the AP function to enhance controls and efficiency.
- Provide direction and developmental support to two team members, ensuring accountability, learning, and team collaboration.
KEY PERFORMANCE INDEX:
- PO validation and statutory payment support.
- Month-end closing and GL hygiene.
- Foreign payments with zero overdues.
- 100% challan archival and audit support.
- Automation, tracking, and zero escalations.
INTERACTIONS:
INTERNALLY:
- Senior Manager Accounts Payable.
- COE AP Team.
- COE Tax Team.
- Supply Chain Team.
- Factory Teams.
- Region Teams.
- CFC and Treasury Team.
EXTERNALLY:
- Bank.
PROFILE DETAILS:
QUALIFICATION:
Chartered Accountant, preferably with a Big4, MNC/New generation Indian company.
EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum 3 yrs. of experience.
- Experience in Accounts Payable and Closing & Reporting function in a manufacturing company with a sales and distribution setup is preferred.
- Exposure in Shared Service environment preferably in the manufacturing sector/FMCG.
- Experience of working in a fast moving and multicultural environment is preferred.
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:
- Fluent with MS Office (specifically Excel and Word) and related tools like Power BI.
- Exposure to ERP environment preferably (SAP, JDE etc.
- Sound accountancy knowledge.
- Hands-on experience in dealing with voluminous booking & Posting process in Shared Service environment.
- Good knowledge of financial/business processes.
BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS:
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Good at coordination and multitasking.
- Adherence to SLA timelines.
- Should be a team player.
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Posted By
Charu Srivastava
Manager - Talent Acquisition at Pernod Ricard India Private Limited
Last Active: 22 September 2025
409
Posted in
Banking & Finance
Job Code
1602697
