Procure To Pay Analyst (Japanese Speaking)

Main Accountabilities

• Understand the requirement and suggest appropriate way of handling supplier invoices.
• Act as one stop shop for various invoice processing related queries.
• Pre-qualify request by determining quality and completeness of request based on defined set of guidelines.
• Track and report team performance.
• Identify & deliver continuous improvement.
• Experience in managing within Agile methodologies is an advantage.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Training new joiners.
• Reviewing and updating process documents.
• Knowledge in operational excellence.

Process:

• Receive invoices and supporting documents from vendors at a central location
• Index the invoices, and park in relevant accounts payable queue for processing
• Processing invoices in Read soft OCR or manually in SAP
• Perform a three-way match. In light of certain business complexities and exigencies the service provider is expected to tackle the following situations:
• Missing PO / SO / contract references – co-ordinate with users for returning the invoice to vendor for missing details
• Issues in call outs / GRN (Goods received not invoiced) / SES – Corroborate with responsible users and PSCM teams for clearing the pending invoices
• Process the NPO invoices and ensuring necessary approvals are available according to the business policies & processing T&E / Inter Company invoices in SAP ERP
• Post the invoice for payment processing

Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Management, Accounting, Finance, Business or any related field.
• At least 2-3 years of experience in Procure to Pay area, with working knowledge of SAP.

Working Dimensions

• Interact with clients – good verbal and written communication. Build and maintain relationships in a multicultural context.
• Capable of working independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to meet tight deadlines with focus on quality, results and timely delivery.
• Candidate will need to stretch during peak / critical service delivery periods and may require to work for long work hour.

Requirements

• Good interpersonal skills will need to be able to build relationships virtually.
• Good Procure to Pay knowledge.
• Analytical & Logical Reasoning
• Presentation skills.
• Working experience in SAP is an added advantage
• Experience in Microsoft office tools (Word, Excel and PPT)
• Excellent written and spoken English and Japanese language

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