Accounts Payable Associate

Location: Asia Pacific, India, Pune- Ref: DETECTIONAPAC01084- Division: Smiths Detection- Job Function: FinanceAbout Us

**SMITHS DETECTION MAKING THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE**

Every minute of every day, in nearly every country across the globe, Smiths Detection people and technology make the world a safer place. We safeguard people, business and infrastructure with the latest innovations and screening technology for aviation, ports, borders, defense, and security across 55 countries around the globe

Life At Smiths
- **Global leader**: We impact critical systems every day with sites in 17 countries and six centers of research excellence. From pioneering to powering life-changing innovation, we’re delivering threat detection and screening solutions to safeguard the world from threat
- **Digital growth**: A key part of our capability is the integration of digital technology across our business and our operations in more than 55 countries, will be critical to our continued success
- **Exciting opportunities**: Our growth is creating exciting opportunities to work with experts in physics, chemistry, electronics, mechanics, production, computer science, and AIML
- **International environment**: With some projects, work requires global collaboration and the potential to travel and grow with the business

**Job Description**:
The individual will be a key member of the Smiths Detection Global finance team. The role will join us at an exciting, dynamic moment in the function’s maturity and will be a part of the new finance shared services centre (“SSC”) in India. This new team will ultimately be responsible for the provision of a variety of financial supporting services to different sections of the Global finance team.

In the short term the role will be very hands on delivering on Accounts Payable Area. The territories in scope will include Middle East region.

In time as the new team is more established, other aspects of finance shared services and territories are likely to be also added into the Indian SSC’s remit.

Duties & Responsibilities

What you'll do:

- Responsibility for processing and payment of all invoices and expense claims within Middle East region or otherwise.
- Monitoring no PO, no Pay process and uphold controls as per divisional policy
- Managing supplier queries to ensure that they are resolved efficiently
- Carrying out defined minimum controls around accounts payable process
- Processing expense claims and review for compliance with divisional policy
- Providing support for internal and external audit
- Implementing divisional system enhancements/ improvements relevant to the accounts payable function.

The Individual

What you'll definitely need:

- Graduate/Post-Graduate with Minimum 3 years accounts payable experience or part qualified accountant
- Experience from Shared Service Centre environment is highly advantageous
- Able to communicate clearly in fluent spoken and written English
- Strong SAP skills including use of purchase orders and SAP expense processing
- Experience of processing in a multiple currency environment
- Strong Excel skills and Microsoft office programmes
- Advanced skills in excel macro development will be desirable
- The ability to communicate across all levels of the organization
- The ability to engage, challenge and work effectively with others
- The ability to build an effective network of internal relationships
- Willing and able to identify and support change and continuous improvement in own and wider business environment
- Demonstrates the required functional and/ or technical knowledge and skills to achieve the highest level of accomplishment

**Join us for a great career and competitive compensation & benefits whilst keeping the world a safer place.**

**Diversity & Inclusion**:
We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Detection, Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation - including, but not limited to, interviews or testing.