- Minimum 5 years of experience in Finance, Accounting, Procurement, or a related business partnering role with working knowledge of US GAAP accounting principles.
- Deep understanding of the end-to-end Source-to-Pay process, including supplier sourcing, contract reviews, procurement operations, and payment workflows.
- Experience supporting supplier sourcing initiatives, contract management, operational finance, and accounting activities.
- Strong stakeholder management capabilities with experience working across multiple business functions and managing a high volume of stakeholders.
- High level of accuracy in preparing, reviewing, and managing financial information.
- Strong attention to detail, customer service orientation, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience identifying process gaps and driving automation, process improvement, and operational efficiency initiatives.
- Familiarity with regional compliance, taxation, and operational finance requirements, including GST, withholding tax, or similar regulatory frameworks.
- Ability to influence business decisions, challenge existing processes, and contribute to operational and procurement strategy development.
- Experience working with shared services or global support functions across multiple regions preferred.
- Experience with ERP, sourcing, reporting, and financial management systems preferred.
- Experience within technology, media, entertainment, or other fast-growth environments preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline. Professional certifications such as CPA, CA, or MBA advantageous.
- Experience using AI, automation, or data-driven insights to improve financial workflows, supplier management, or operational efficiency preferred.
- Additional language capability supporting engagement across multiple markets advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Act as a finance business partner supporting regional stakeholders across procurement, operations, and business functions.
- Ensure operational excellence across finance and procurement processes, systems, controls, and governance frameworks.
- Drive initiatives to simplify, standardize, and automate manual workflows, including system enhancement projects and user acceptance testing activities.
- Partner with business and legal stakeholders on supplier sourcing activities, contract reviews, contract renewals, and supplier management initiatives.
- Manage finance-related procurement activities including supplier onboarding, purchase order creation and review, change order management, invoice review, supplier governance, and management reporting.
- Support financial accuracy, control, and compliance across procurement and operational finance processes.
- Own month-end accrual processes and partner with accounting teams to investigate and resolve material spending variances.
- Ensure accurate financial coding, reporting, budget tracking, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Analyze invoicing trends and collaborate with accounts payable teams to improve invoice processing efficiency, compliance, and controls.
- Identify process improvement opportunities and lead initiatives that enhance finance, procurement, and payment workflows across regional regulatory environments.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships across Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Legal, Tax, Technology, and operational teams.
- Support strategic initiatives focused on supplier framework optimization, cost efficiency, operational scalability, and process effectiveness.
- Deliver ad hoc analysis, project support, and operational activities aligned with business objectives.