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Job Description: Accounting Specialists - AP, AR and GL
**Business Unit:** Client Accounting Services (CAS)
**Role Title:** Accounting Specialists - Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and General Ledger (GL)
**Location:** Hyderabad, India HQ
**Work Model:** In-office 5 days ( Mon-Fri)
**Joining Timeline:** Ability to onboard within 30 days preferred
**Qualification:** Graduate in Commerce required
Openings Covered
This hiring mandate covers the following specialist positions:
- Accounting Specialist - Accounts Payable (AP)
- Accounting Specialist - Accounts Receivable (AR)
- Accounting Specialist - General Ledger (GL)
## Experience Requirements
- **AP and AR roles:** 4 to 6 years of relevant professional experience
- **GL roles:** 10 to 12 years of relevant professional experience
- Preferred experience from MNC accounting firms, MNC GCCs, or business processing services organizations
## Role Purpose by Function
### Accounts Payable (AP)
The AP Accounting Specialist will manage end-to-end payables processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, compliance, and strong vendor relationship management. The role will focus on invoice processing, payment controls, reconciliations, and support for month-end close.
### Accounts Receivable (AR)
The AR Accounting Specialist will drive effective receivables operations, cash application, billing support, collections tracking, dispute follow-up, and customer account reconciliations. The role will help improve cash flow visibility, collection efficiency, and reporting discipline.
### General Ledger (GL)
The GL Accounting Specialist will lead core record-to-report activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, month-end close, intercompany accounting, balance sheet reviews, and financial reporting support. This role requires stronger depth in accounting close, review rigor, issue resolution, and process governance.
## Key Responsibilities
### Common Responsibilities Across AP, AR, and GL
- Deliver high-quality accounting operations with strong accuracy, timeliness, and service orientation.
- Maintain process discipline, documentation standards, and compliance with internal controls and client requirements.
- Coordinate with internal teams, client stakeholders, and support functions to resolve accounting queries and improve turnaround time.
- Prepare and review reconciliations, schedules, aging reports, exception trackers, and MIS reports as required.
- Identify process gaps, recommend improvements, and support standardization, automation, and operating efficiency.
- Ensure professionalism in written and verbal communication while interacting with internal leadership and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrate strong executive presence, ownership mindset, responsiveness, and accountability in day-to-day delivery.
### Accounts Payable (AP) Responsibilities
- Process vendor invoices, employee reimbursements, debit notes, and payment requests with accuracy and proper supporting documentation.
- Validate invoice coding, approvals, tax treatment, and policy compliance before booking transactions.
- Manage vendor master updates, payable aging reviews, payment schedules, and exception resolution.
- Reconcile vendor statements and investigate unmatched items, duplicates, or pending balances.
- Support accruals, prepaid accounting inputs, and month-end AP close activities.
- Coordinate with procurement, business teams, and vendors to ensure smooth invoice-to-payment cycles.
### Accounts Receivable (AR) Responsibilities
- Prepare and process customer invoices, credit notes, debit notes, and receipt applications.
- Manage collections follow-up, open item tracking, unapplied cash review, and customer account reconciliations.
- Monitor billing accuracy, customer disputes, short payments, and overdue balances.
- Prepare AR aging reports, DSO-related analysis, and collection status updates for management review.
- Support revenue-related schedules, cash application controls, and month-end AR close requirements.
- Partner with business teams and customers to improve collection efficiency and issue resolution.
### General Ledger (GL) Responsibilities
- Prepare and post journal entries for accruals, prepaids, amortization, reclasses, and standard monthly accounting adjustments.
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations, substantiation of account balances, and open item reviews.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities with strong focus on timelines and quality.
- Handle intercompany accounting, fixed assets accounting support, and financial statement schedule preparation where applicable.
- Review trial balance movement, investigate variances, and support management reporting and audit requests.
- Strengthen accounting controls, checklist compliance, and close governance across assigned processes.
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