Team Lead - Account Payable

Linedata; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Linedata in Mumbai is seeking a senior leader to drive Expense Accounting activities, ensuring timely delivery, accuracy, and strong internal controls across the governance framework.

The role involves leading analysts, coordinating with Fund and Corporate Accounting, and implementing process improvements and automation to enhance efficiency and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prioritize, allocate, and monitor the Expense Accounting calendar across recurring and ad hoc deliverables, ensuring deadlines, SLAs, quality standards, and backup coverage.
• Team leadership: Supervise, mentor, and motivate analysts and senior analysts, including workload allocation, training, onboarding, cross-training, performance feedback, and knowledge management.
• Review and quality control: Perform risk-based review of critical and high-risk activities, including vendor banking changes, SSI callbacks, payrun support, vendor payments, fund reimbursements, cash movements, bank reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, and regulatory schedules.
• Accounting oversight: Ensure deliverables are consistent with accounting principles, client policies, approval requirements, internal controls, and the expected financial statement impact for expenses, AP/AR, cash, accruals, prepaids, and allocations.
• Stakeholder management: Act as a primary LineData contact for Expense Accounting, Fund Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Treasury/Cash Management, Tax/Compliance, Operations, vendors, and internal business requestors.
• Month-end and reporting governance: Oversee month-end trackers, AP/GL trial balance reviews, bank and receivable reconciliations, fund gross-up, expense analysis, AR billing support, CSA/soft-dollar reporting, metrics, research reports, and regulatory/tax schedules.
• Controls and audit readiness: Maintain complete evidence, maker-checker review, exception logs, escalation records, SOPs, and audit-ready documentation; identify control gaps and drive remediation.
• Process improvement and automation: Lead continuous improvement through SOP updates, standard templates, dashboards, Alteryx workflows, automation checks, productivity tracking, and improved handoffs between Expense Accounting, Fund Accounting, and Corporate Accounting.
• Governance reporting: Monitor team deliverables and proactively identify potential delays or risks, ensuring timely

Job description

About Us

WHY LINEDATA ?

Join us in shaping the fintech of tomorrow.

With more than 1,350 colleagues across 20 locations worldwide, you'll help build cutting-edge platforms and tailored services that power the daily operations of 700 leading financial institutions. As a global, multicultural company with over 45 nationalities represented and just as many languages spoken, we thrive on diverse perspectives and collaboration. Together, we tackle future-focused topics like Al and the digitalization of finance, delivering smart solutions for our customers.

Whether you're just beginning your career or are an experienced professional, Linedata offers exposure to large-scale client projects, internal mobility and opportunities to develop your skills alongside leading experts.

Position Responsibilities

The role will involve the following critical activities:

• Plan, prioritize, allocate, and monitor the Expense Accounting calendar across recurring and ad hoc deliverables, ensuring competing priorities are effectively managed while meeting deadlines, SLAs, quality standards, and maintaining appropriate backup coverage.
• Team leadership: Supervise, mentor, and motivate analysts and senior analysts, including workload allocation, training, onboarding, cross-training, performance feedback, and knowledge management.
• Review and quality control: Perform risk-based review of critical and high-risk activities, including vendor banking changes, SSI callbacks, payrun support, vendor payments, fund reimbursements, cash movements, bank reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, and regulatory schedules.
• Accounting oversight: Ensure deliverables are consistent with accounting principles, client policies, approval requirements, internal controls, and the expected financial statement impact for expenses, AP/AR, cash, accruals, prepaids, and allocations.
• Stakeholder management: Act as a primary LineData contact for Expense Accounting, Fund Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Treasury/Cash Management, Tax/Compliance, Operations, vendors, and internal business requestors.
• Month-end and reporting governance: Oversee month-end trackers, AP/GL trial balance reviews, bank and receivable reconciliations, fund gross-up, expense analysis, AR billing support, CSA/soft-dollar reporting, metrics, research reports, and regulatory/tax schedules.
• Controls and audit readiness: Maintain complete evidence, maker-checker review, exception logs, escalation records, SOPs, and audit-ready documentation; identify control gaps and drive remediation.
• Process improvement and automation: Lead continuous improvement through SOP updates, standard templates, dashboards, Alteryx workflows, automation checks, productivity tracking, and improved handoffs between Expense Accounting, Fund Accounting, and Corporate Accounting.
• Governance reporting: Monitor team deliverables and proactively identify potential delays or risks, ensuring timely