Accounts Payable - Team Leader

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; New Delhi; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital in New Delhi, India is seeking a Team Leader for Accounts Payable to lead end-to-end AP operations for global entities. The role includes managing invoice processing, vendor management, payments, and employee reimbursements, while guiding a team to deliver against KPIs and SLAs.

You will oversee month-end close activities, ensure compliant payment cycles, and drive continuous improvement and automation across AP processes in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage end to end Accounts Payable operations for assigned global entities, including invoice processing, vendor management, payments, employee reimbursements, and related AP activities.
• Manage and develop the AP team, ensuring workload allocation, performance management, coaching, and timely resolution of issues.
• Ensure achievement of KPIs and SLAs such as invoice processing TAT, on-time payments, first-pass yield and aged payables.
• Oversee month end close activities including vendor accruals, prepaid amortization, reversals and reconciliations.
• Ensure timely execution of vendor and employee payment cycles with appropriate review and controls.
• Monitor AP ageing, blocked invoices, outstanding advances, and drive timely resolution.
• Act as primary point of contact for AP escalations and coordinate with Finance Controllers, Procurement, Treasury, R2R and business teams.
• Support internal and external audits with documentation and timely responses.
• Maintain strong controls around invoice processing and payments; drive process standardization and automation.
• Demonstrate ownership and resolve issues proactively.

Job description

## Accounts Payable - Team LeaderApply: Hybrid: New Delhi, Delhi, India: Full time: Posted Today: R0145801**Function**Finance# **Our Company**We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. 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.Our 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.Imagine 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.# **Job description****Responsibilities -*** Lead and manage end to end Accounts Payable operationsfor assigned global entities, including invoice processing, vendor management, payments, employee reimbursements, and related AP activities.* Manage and develop the AP team, ensuring appropriate workload allocation, performance management, coaching, and timely resolution of operational issues.* Ensure achievement of defined KPIs and SLAs, including invoice processing TAT, on-time payments, first-pass yield, aged payables, error rates, and other operational metrics.* Oversee month end close activities, including vendor accruals, prepaid amortization, reversals, reconciliations, flux analysis, and other AP-related accounting activities.* Ensure timely and accurate execution of vendor and employee payment cycles, with appropriate review and adherence to payment controls.* Monitor AP ageing, blocked/held invoices, outstanding advances, debit balances, and other exceptions and drive timely resolution.* Act as the primary point of contact for AP operational escalations and work closely with Finance Controllers, Procurement, Treasury, R2R, business teams, and other stakeholders.* Ensure compliance with company policies, accounting standards, internal controls, approval matrices, and process governance requirements.* Support internal and external audits, including preparation of supporting documentation, timely responses to audit queries, and closure of observations/action items.* Maintain strong controls around invoice processing, vendor payments, employee expenses, and segregation of duties.* Review operational performance, identify root causes of recurring issues, and implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions.* Drive process standardization, continuous improvement, and automation opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and control.* Demonstrate strong ownership and proactively identify and resolve issues rather than relying on escalations from stakeholders.(empty)