Accounts Payable Specialist

Accounts Payable Specialist / SME

Location: Bengaluru, India

Experience: 4 to 7 Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Specialist / SME with strong expertise in Invoice Verification, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Vendor Reconciliation, KYC Validation, and SAP-based Accounts Payable operations. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience managing the complete AP lifecycle in a shared services environment while ensuring compliance, accuracy, and timely processing of transactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Process and verify PO, Non-PO Invoices, Debit Memos, Credit Notes, and Down Payments.
• Perform invoice verification and validation ensuring accuracy of invoice number, amount, currency, tax details, and bank information.
• Process invoices through 2-way and 3-way matching.
• Investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies, quantity and price variances, blocked invoices, and debit balances.
• Manage Vendor KYC verification, vendor onboarding support, and bank account validation.
• Review and validate KYC documents and maintain vendor master data in compliance with company policies.
• Prepare and support weekly payment proposal runs.
• Perform GR/IR reconciliation and clearing activities.
• Support monthly accruals, account reconciliations, and month-end closing activities.
• Respond to supplier and stakeholder inquiries via email and calls.
• Ensure compliance with AP policies, SOPs, internal controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in process improvement and automation initiatives.
• Provide administrative and analytical support to management.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Commerce, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or equivalent.

Experience

• 4 to 7 years of relevant experience in Accounts Payable / P2P operations.
• Hands-on experience in end-to-end AP processing and invoice verification.

Mandatory Skills

• Accounts Payable (AP)
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
• Invoice Verification
• Invoice Processing
• PO & Non-PO Invoices
• Credit Notes & Debit Notes
• down Payment Processing
• Vendor Reconciliation
• GR/IR Reconciliation
• Payment Processing
• Payment Proposal Run
• Month-End Closing
• Accruals
• Vendor Query Resolution
• Vendor KYC Verification
• Vendor Onboarding
• Bank Account Validation
• Vendor Master Data Management
• SAP (Mandatory)
• MS Excel
• MS Outlook