Associate - Accounts Payable

**Description**:
**Job location: Mumbai**

**About the role**:
The Associate - Accounts Payable will be accountable for processing vendor invoices, ensuring timely and accurate payments, and maintaining compliance with internal controls and company policies. The role requires attention to detail, organizational skills and a basic understanding of accounting principles.

**What you will be expected to do**:

- Review of documentation for vendor code creation in SAP based on requests received from all departments. Review and maintain adequate documentation for the vendor code creation process including bank details.
- Processing daily invoice bookings and ensuring timely vendor payments across all locations for both recurring and non-recurring expenses. Ensuring accurate entries in SAP according to established procedures to capture the correct cost center, entity, and expense category. Verifying that all expenses are backed by approved purchase orders and valid invoices.
- Verifying and validating vendor invoices for accuracy and compliance
- Preparing bank details for vendor payments wherever required. Tracking payments made with the bank uploads and related entries in SAP
- Maintaining a proper invoice and payment tracker
- Following up for timely submission of invoices/expense reports advance given to vendors/employees.
- Knocking off / clearing once final invoices/expense reports are received.
- Co-ordination with various departments and teams in various geographies
- Preparing bank reconciliations
- Processing of employee expense reimbursements, submitted over ZOHO expense portal and maintaining the tracker of the employee expense reports.
- Assist with audit data preparation and related tasks
- Ensure accurate bookings to claim GST input tax credit across the respective locations. Verify that all expenses are backed by approved purchase orders and valid invoices.
- Assist with month-end closing processes.
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, commerce, accounting or equivalent.
- 1+ year of prior experience in accounts payable or general accounting.
- Good verbal and written English communication skills.
- Must be computer literate, with proficiency in Excel.
- A team player and proactive to learn.
- Must be honest and of high integrity.
- Attention to detail and ability to work independently under tight deadlines.

**What Sun King offers**:

- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.

**About Sun King**:
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.

Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.

Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.

Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.

From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.

Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, op