Job Opportunity for Accounts Payable Assistant at Oxford Policy Management in New Delhi, India

## Accounts Payable Assistant

 

**Oxford Policy Management** is a leading international development consultancy working to improve the lives of people around the world. We work with governments, international organizations, and civil society to design and implement effective policies and programs. We are committed to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion at every level of the business.

 

**Job Location:** New Delhi, India

 

**Job Type:** Permanent

 

**Experience Required:** Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role.

 

**Job Responsibilities:**

 

* Supplier creation and amendment, ensuring that company policy is adhered to.

* Maintain a selection of supplier accounts on the ledger.

* Reconcile supplier statements.

* Registration of incoming invoices and credit notes to the finance systems, ensuring compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements.

* Posting invoices and credit notes, and ensuring they are coded correctly in the system.

* Matching invoices and credit notes to PO’s and GRN’s.

* Attaching the correct documentation to invoices, and reconciling purchase orders to invoices received.

* Query resolution with both internal stakeholders and suppliers.

* Responding to the queries received from internal staff and suppliers in a timely manner.

* Communicating with relevant suppliers to process invoicing or payment queries.

* Processing staff expenses.

* Validating expenses submitted by the staff to ensure these are reimbursed in a timely manner and are allocated to the correct cost centers.

* Prepare and process fortnightly payment runs to suppliers and for staff expenses; resolve payment rejections.

* Process payments to the OPM International Offices as required.

* Assist with OPM project audits and the year end audit.

* Ensuring that all accounts payable activities comply with relevant financial policies and procedures.

* Adhering to the SLAs.

* Work collaboratively with other teams.

* Any other ad hoc tasks that may be required.

 

**Professional Skills, Knowledge & Experience:**

 

* Experience in a similar role (minimum 3 years).

* Understanding of Procure to Pay (Accounts Payable), travel and expense processes, and payment run processes.

* Diploma in Accounting is desirable but not essential.

* Microsoft Dynamics 365 experience highly desirable but not essential.

* Excellent numeracy.

* IT literacy.

* Strong ability in Excel and experience using other MS office applications.

* High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

* Ability to work independently, as well as being self-motivated, and able to work effectively as part of a team with a ‘can do’ attitude.

* Good organisational skills with the ability to use own initiative and take responsibility for important processes.

* Able to deal with people at all levels in a professional manner.

* Team player, able to support the other team members, and stakeholders in other countries.

* Able to prioritise tasks.

* Experience of organisational transition to a new Shared Service is desirable but not essential.

 

**Our Offer:**

 

We enable colleagues’ capacity to grow professionally through enhanced learning resources, opportunities to work cross functionally, and space to engage with a range of internal and external industry events.

 

Our non-hierarchical culture values support, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and a rich diversity of perspectives.

 

We provide an exceptionally generous annual leave entitlement and a hybrid working model to encourage and enable healthy work/life balance.

 

Wellbeing resources including a global Employee Assistance Programme and access to the UnMind app.

 

We are strengthened by the diversity of colleagues across our global business and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer, promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace for all. Our recruitment practices reflect our ambition to make the international development sector more inclusive and firm belief that our work delivers the best outcomes when we actively include a diversity of perspectives and experiences.

 

**Please note:**

 

* Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role and candidates must have a pre-existing right to work in India for their application to be considered.

* We review and interview applicants on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply by way of CV via our careers site at the earliest. We may close this advertisement before the published closing date, should a suitable candidate be identified.