Accounts Payable-Assistant Manager -French

Genpact India pvt ltd

In this role, you will manage daily Accounts Payable operations. You ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, support compliance efforts, and contribute to process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end AP operations, including invoice processing, payment execution, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Supervise and mentor AP team members, providing guidance, training, and performance feedback to ensure operational excellence.
• Monitor team performance against SLAs and KPIs, identifying gaps and implementing corrective actions to meet service standards.
• Manage vendor relationships and escalations, resolving complex discrepancies, payment issues, and ensuring timely communication.
• Serve as a point of contact for internal stakeholders and clients, ensuring alignment on AP processes, expectations, and issue resolution.
• Lead monthly and quarterly closing activities, including AP schedules, accruals for unreceived invoices, clearing aged items, and preparing audit-ready documentation.
• Drive process optimization and automation initiatives, identifying improvement opportunities and collaborating with IT and finance teams to implement solutions.
• Investigate and resolve invoice holds, payment exceptions, and debit balances, coordinating with procurement, finance, and vendors to ensure resolution and prevent recurrence.
• Conduct freight invoice audits, validating logistics charges against contracts, shipment terms, and delivery documentation to ensure accurate billing.
• Coordinate with customs and logistics teams to ensure proper documentation, duty payments, and compliance with import/export regulations
• Manage direct debit transactions, ensuring proper authorization, tracking, and reconciliation in SAP.
• Handle intercompany payables, ensuring accurate posting, reconciliation, and timely settlement of intercompany transactions across global entities.
• Lead monthly and quarterly closing activities, including AP schedules, accruals for unreceived invoices, clearing aged items..
• Ensure adherence to internal controls, SOX compliance, and audit requirements.
• Drive process optimization and automation initiatives, identifying improvement opportunities and collaborating with IT and finance teams to implement solutions.

Qualifications we seek in you

• Bachelor s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• Progressive experience in Accounts Payable, with minimum years in a supervisory or assistant manager capacity.
• Hands-on experience with SAP ERP systems.
• Proven experience in managing AP operations in a high-volume, multinational manufacturing environment.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles and AP workflows.
• Strong understanding of VAT regulations, tax codes, and compliance requirements.
• Advanced Excel proficiency.
• Strong command of French (spoken and written) is a must.
• English proficiency at B2 level.

Preferred Qualifications/Skills

• Master s degree or MBA is a plus.
• Experience with automation tools and process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma).
• Proven experience in client-facing roles, with the ability to build trust, manage expectations, and deliver value-added insights.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.