Account Payable Specialist - BANGALORE

About Ribbon:

Ribbon Communications is a company with two decades of leadership in real-time communications. Built on world class technology and intellectual property, the company delivers intelligent, secure, embedded real-time communications for today’s world. The company transforms fixed, mobile and enterprise networks from legacy environments to secure IP and cloud-based architectures, enabling highly productive communications for consumers and businesses. With 64 locations in 27 countries around the globe, the company’s innovative, market-leading portfolio empowers service providers and enterprises with rapid service creation in a fully virtualized environment. The company’s Kandy Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) delivers a comprehensive set of advanced embedded communications capabilities that enables this transformation. To learn more, visit ribboncommunications.com.

Position Summary:

This role is an essential part of our fast paced department. Job tasks include matching, coding, and entering invoices, researching and resolving accounts payable issues with vendors, processing expense reports, and updating the vendor sub-ledger for all activity.

The incumbent shall report to the Shared Services Manager and must be able to deal appropriately with confidential information and have a high-level of attention to accuracy and detail. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Process a high volume of invoices.
• Strong understanding and firsthand experience of Oracle Payment process.
• Good understanding of Transaction Quality audit process for AP processes.
• Audit and data entry of employee expense reports.
• Match invoices to purchase orders to complete 2-way and 3-way matching.
• Code invoices to the general ledger.
• Perform heavy data entry with a strong focus on attention to every detail.
• Reconciliation and analysis of large invoices/vendor statements
• Work with other departments to obtain appropriate approval to pay
• Understand and maintain the highest standard of process and cash controls
• Maintain a filing system for all accounts payable documents
• Support requests for payment information and invoice copies as required (research, audits, tax filings, etc.)
• Investigate and resolve issues that arise with the processing of invoices/check requests and purchase orders
• Correspond and work with vendors to resolve issues in a timely manner

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience processing A/P.
• A minimum of 6 years of full cycle accounts payable experience.
• Proficiency in ERP software is required; Oracle experience is preferred.
• Good verbal and written communications skills.
• Intermediate Excel skills are essential.
• Due to the nature of the workload during peak seasons (e.g. year end, quarter end etc.) there will be periods in which time off will not be guaranteed.
• Willingness to support business requirements as per the need and ask.
• Must be a motivated, self-starter with a proactive personality who is able to work independently or with a team.

Please Note:

'All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, on the basis of disability, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.'