Senior AP Specialist

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in access solutions is looking for a Senior AP Specialist in Singapore to manage overseas vendor payments, ensuring compliance with tax regulations. This role requires 7+ years of experience in Accounts Payable and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, offering opportunities for flexible working arrangements and professional development.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Career development opportunities

Global team collaboration

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Accounts Payable and vendor-facing roles.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required.
• Experience with ERP systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage overseas supplier invoices and ensure tax compliance.
• Process payments for import of goods and services.
• Oversee capitalization and depreciation of fixed assets.

Skills

Communication Skills

Initiative

Problem Solving

Microsoft Excel

Education

Post Graduation in Commerce (M.Com / MBA in Finance)

Tools

Oracle

SAP

Job description

An Amazing Career Opportunity for Senior AP Specialist
Location: Bangalore, India
Job ID: 42242

Profile Summary:

The Senior Accounts Payable Analyst will manage HID India’s overseas vendor payments, import-related transactions, and fixed asset accounting, ensuring full compliance with Indian tax, RBI, and customs regulations.

The role involves coordinating with AD banks, external consultants, and internal teams for timely remittances of goods and services, applying correct withholding tax under DTAA or domestic rates, and maintaining proper documentation for imports.

The analyst will also oversee capitalization and depreciation of fixed assets, perform reconciliations in FloQast, support internal and statutory audits, and report AP and intercompany balances in HFM. This position is critical to maintaining strong internal controls, and enabling efficient financial operations within HID India’s distribution and CoE operations.

Who are we?

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

At HID Global, we are passionate Engineers working on a product that helps integrate multiple physical access controls and logical access systems for identities. Our product provides a common way of provisioning cards and access to identities across the organisation. We work on exciting integration and design problems using the latest Microsoft Technologies in an inclusive environment. It is a great place to make a career, learn and have fun. We develop best‑in‑class access control and authentication solutions that help governments and organisations stay ahead of an ever‑changing threat landscape. Most of our products are supported on both on‑premise and cloud environments. Our products protect more than 85 million user identities and issued more than 50 million credentials to date. It is a great place to become a security domain expert and work on the latest technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following.

• Responsible for accounting of overseas supplier invoices, ensuring compliance with tax regulations and payment procedures.
• Process overseas payments (A1) for import of goods, including intercompany and contract manufacturer invoices, by coordinating with the AD banker and submitting required documents such as invoices, shipping documents (BOE, AWB), for timely remittance processing.
• Process payments for overseas vendors for import of services (A2) by coordinating with external consultants for 15CA/15CB certification; apply appropriate withholding tax rates under DTAA (supported by TRC, Form 10F, No-PE declaration) or standard Income Tax Act rates when DTAA benefits are not claimed; submit documentation to the AD banker for remittance.
• Collaborate closely with the Supply Chain team for inventory and non‑inventory overseas purchases to ensure timely receipt of vendor invoices and necessary supporting documents required for foreign remittances.
• Manage Fixed Assets including capitalization of assets (e.g., laptops, servers, IT equipment), maintaining the Fixed Asset Register (FAR), verifying asset classifications, processing accounting entries, and running periodic depreciation.
• Responsible for ICT reporting of AP intercompany payables in the HFM tool by compiling and validating relevant overseas accounts payable data.
• Support internal, statutory, and tax audits by preparing schedules and providing documentation related to AP and Fixed Assets processes.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliation data for AP and Fixed Assets‑related GL accounts in FloQast.
• Track and monitor unvouchered inventory and non‑inventory GL balances; coordinate with Supply Chain and IT teams to promptly resolve outstanding issues and system discrepancies.

Education and/or Experience:

• Post Graduation in Commerce (M.Com / MBA in Finance)
• Previous experience of 7+ Years in Account Payable, Dispute Management, and vendor facing role.
• Strong ability to communicate internally and externally.
• Typing skills (preferably completed typing junior certification).
• Strong ability to take initiative and self‑start when necessary.
• Proven ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions.
• Proven ability to work successfully in an ambiguous environment.Proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel; ERP (Oracle/SAP) experience preferred.

Why apply?

• Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
• Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part‑time job seekers.
• Integrity: You are result‑oriented, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.

This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.

HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something.
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.