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We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.\nOur group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.\nImagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.\nJob description\nResponsibilities -\nLead and manage end to end Accounts Payable operations for assigned global entities, including invoice processing, vendor management, payments, employee reimbursements, and related AP activities.\nManage and develop the AP team, ensuring appropriate workload allocation, performance management, coaching, and timely resolution of operational issues.\nEnsure achievement of defined KPIs and SLAs, including invoice processing TAT, on-time payments, first-pass yield, aged payables, error rates, and other operational metrics.\nOversee month end close activities, including vendor accruals, prepaid amortization, reversals, reconciliations, flux analysis, and other AP-related accounting activities.\nEnsure timely and accurate execution of vendor and employee payment cycles, with appropriate review and adherence to payment controls.\nMonitor AP ageing, blocked/held invoices, outstanding advances, debit balances, and other exceptions and drive timely resolution.\nAct as the primary point of contact for AP operational escalations and work closely with Finance Controllers, Procurement, Treasury, R2R, business teams, and other stakeholders.\nEnsure compliance with company policies, accounting standards, internal controls, approval matrices, and process governance requirements.\nSupport internal and external audits, including preparation of supporting documentation, timely responses to audit queries, and closure of observations/action items.\nMaintain strong controls around invoice processing, vendor payments, employee expenses, and segregation of duties.\nReview operational performance, identify root causes of recurring issues, and implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions.\nDrive process standardization, continuous improvement, and automation opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and control.\nDemonstrate strong ownership and proactively identify and resolve issues rather than relying on escalations from stakeholders.(empty)\nAbout us\nWe’re a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. 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