Associate Financial Operations
Gurgaon, India
Activities were undertaken within the Procure to Pay (P2P or AP) Team, including ensuring adherence to purchase orders when processing invoices, managing credit notes and advances with meticulous document verification, securing necessary approvals for invoice bookings, addressing discrepancies with vendors, maintaining up-to-date vendor accounts, adhering to stringent response times for urgent payment requests, facilitating Vendor Master Data updates, expeditiously handling content writer payments, conducting vendor statement reconciliations, preparing audit data, overseeing new hire training, and managing advances to prevent duplicate payments. Collaboration with Treasury and the Accounts Receivable team was routine to verify fund availability and ensure client collections aligned with vendor payments.Within the Tax Reconciliation Team, responsibilities encompassed TDS reconciliation with variance analysis, addressing tax discrepancies across various accounts, collaborating with Cash Application and Collections teams, supporting data migration to SAP, ensuring comprehensive user acceptance testing for system transitions, calculating gross margin accurately in the HFM application, and upholding data security and ethical standards, as emphasized in training conducted by Publicis Groupe's Marcel.