Position: Financial Consultant
Location: Chennai/Puttur, AP - Remote
Employment Type: Full-Time
Shift: 8.00AM - 5.00PM PST (US Pacific Time)
Job Summary: We are looking for an experienced Financial Consultant with strong Accounts Payable (AP), dispute management, reconciliation, and accounting process knowledge.
The ideal candidate should have experience working in a high-volume, fast-paced, and demanding finance environment, managing multiple priorities while coordinating with internal stakeholders across Finance, Procurement, Operations, Sales, Business Units, and other departments.
The candidate must understand the end-to-end accounting lifecycle, including upstream and downstream processes, and be capable of identifying the financial and operational impact of AP transactions, disputes, reconciliations, and process gaps.
Key Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable:
Manage and oversee high-volume Accounts Payable transactions with strong focus on accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
Review invoices, purchase orders, receipts, payment terms, and supporting documentation.
Handle 3-way matching between Purchase Orders, Goods/Service Receipts, and Invoices.
Investigate invoice exceptions, blocked invoices, duplicate invoices, pricing discrepancies, and payment issues.
Monitor AP aging, outstanding invoices, and payment-related exceptions.
Ensure timely resolution of invoices to meet agreed SLA and payment timelines.
Identify recurring AP issues and recommend process improvements.
Dispute Management:
Own and manage invoice and payment-related disputes from identification through resolution.
Investigate discrepancies involving pricing, quantity, tax, purchase orders, contracts, receipts, credits, and payments.
Coordinate with Procurement, Vendors, Business Units, Receiving, Finance, and other stakeholders to resolve disputes.
Maintain dispute trackers, aging, root causes, ownership, and resolution status.
Escalate critical or long-pending disputes appropriately.
Identify trends and recurring dispute drivers and recommend corrective actions.
Reconciliation:
Perform regular account and transaction reconciliations.
Reconcile vendor statements, AP sub-ledger, general ledger, payments, credits, and outstanding balances.
Investigate and resolve reconciliation differences and aged open items.
Support month-end and year-end close activities.
Ensure accurate accounting records and timely closure of outstanding items.
Coordinate with General Accounting and other Finance teams to resolve reconciliation issues.
Upstream & Downstream Accounting Process:
Understand how AP transactions originate and flow through the broader accounting process.
Understand upstream processes such as:
Procurement
Purchase Requisitions
Purchase Orders
Vendor Management
Goods/Service Receipts
Contracts
Understand downstream processes such as:
Accounts Payable
Payments
General Ledger
Accruals
Reconciliations
Month-End Close
Financial Reporting
Identify how upstream process gaps can create downstream accounting issues.
Work cross-functionally to resolve issues at the root cause rather than only correcting individual transactions.
Stakeholder Management:
Work closely with multiple internal stakeholders and departments to resolve financial issues.
Coordinate with Procurement, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Business Units, Treasury, Vendor Management, and other teams.
Handle challenging conversations and conflicting priorities professionally.
Drive issues to closure while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
Provide regular status updates on critical, aged, and high-value issues.
Required Skills:
Strong experience in Accounts Payable and accounting operations.
Hands-on experience managing high-volume financial transactions.
Strong experience in dispute management and issue resolution.
Strong reconciliation and account analysis skills.
Good understanding of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and end-to-end accounting processes.
Understanding of upstream and downstream dependencies within Finance and Accounting.
Experience with invoice processing, 2-way/3-way matching, payment processing, vendor statements, and AP aging.
Strong knowledge of month-end close and financial reconciliation.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, lookups, filtering, and data analysis.
Experience working with ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics 365, or similar.
High-Pressure / High-Volume Environment
Comfortable working in a high-volume and deadline-driven environment.
Ability to handle multiple urgent issues simultaneously without compromising accuracy.
Capable of working under pressure during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close.
Strong prioritization and time-management skills.
Ability to remain calm and solution-oriented when dealing with escalations and difficult stakeholders.
Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive issues through to resolution.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
Professional qualifications such as CA, CMA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent are an advantage.
Experience with Oracle Fusion Financials, SAP FI, NetSuite, or other major ERP platforms.
Experience with shared services, Global Business Services (GBS), or large-scale Finance Operations environments.
Experience with AP automation and workflow tools is a plus.
Knowledge of internal controls, audit requirements, and SOX controls is desirable.
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