Associate - Accounts Payable

**The**Opportunity**:
Avantor is looking for dynamic, forward-thinking, and experienced AP professionals to be responsible for processing and recording invoices, verifying the accuracy of the charges, and ensuring timely payments.

This role will be a full-time position based out of our Coimbatore office. This role involves preparing payments for expense vouchers and invoices, Handling vendor inquiries, and negotiating past-due accounts. Generate routine balance reports. Maintain files and accounting documentation.

If you are passionate about solving complex challenges and driving innovation - let’s talk

Our organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

**What we’re looking for**
- ** Education**: Bachelor’s /master’s degree in accounting, Finance
- ** Experience**: 2+ years of overall experience in Accounts Payable
- Experience in any ERP systems. SAP preferred.
- Flexibility to work the night shift and work from office.

**How you will thrive and create an impact**
- Responsible for P2P perations
- Pays invoices by verifying transaction information; scheduling and preparing disbursements; obtaining authorization of payment.
- Posting customer payments by recording cash, checks, and credit card transactions
- Posting revenues by verifying and entering transactions from the lock box and local deposits
- Verifying the validity of account discrepancies by obtaining and investigating information from sales, trade promotions, customer service departments, and customers
- Resolving valid or authorized deductions by entering adjusting entries
- Resolving invalid or unauthorized deductions by following pending deductions procedures
- Resolving collections by examining customer payment plans, payment history, and credit line; coordinating contact with the collections department
- Summarizing receivables by maintaining invoice accounts; coordinating monthly transfers to accounts receivable accounts, verifying totals, and preparing reports protecting the organization's value by keeping information confidential.
- Accomplishing accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed
- Reconciling processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances
- Paying vendors by monitoring discount opportunities; verifying Federal ID numbers; scheduling and preparing checks; resolving purchase orders, contracts, invoices, or payment discrepancies and documentation; ensuring credit is received for outstanding memos; issuing stop-payments or purchase order amendments.
- Paying employees by receiving and verifying expense reports and requests for advances; preparing checks
Charging expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports; recording entries.
- Maintaining accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.
- Verifying vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions

**Disclaimer**:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

**Why Avantor?**

**Dare to go further in your career.**Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.

**The work we do changes people's lives for the better.** It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.

**EEO Statement**:
We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.

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