Business Operations Associate

**The Company**
NTT DATA Services is a top 10 global services company and part of the NTT Group, a Fortune 29 telecommunications and services company based in Japan. We operate with 60,000 professionals in 36 countries. Every day around the world we help clients explore new ways to respond to market dynamics with flexibility and speed, reduce costs with less risk, and increase productivity to enable growth.

**The Opportunity**
NTT Data is experiencing unprecedented growth as many of our clients are dealing with the technology challenges necessary to stay competitive. As a result, our Finance team is actively seeking a results-oriented Accounting/Finance resources to join our team in Gurgaon.

The Account Operations Team supports our NTT DATA Account Leaders in Contract Management, Account Governance and Business Process Compliance activities to enable timely order-to-cash process and effective coordination between Sales, Forecasting, ERP and Resourcing actions. The primary objective of this group is enabling Client Managers to focus on account growth by supporting account operations/administrative activities, improving processes/data/ compliance/awareness within or across accounts, providing proactive insights and supporting actions related to org-wide initiatives. The CMS Organization **Business Support Team** is responsible for overall contract management support, account operations tracking, process compliance activities and client onboarding activities. The CMS Operations Support Associate/Sr. Associate supports key processes for a portfolio of accounts reporting to the Operations Team Lead/Manager

**Responsibilities**: The incumbent may be required to perform all or a combination of the following essential functions as determined by business necessity
- Resource who has strong process/business knowledge and experience with Order-to-Cash processes
- Responsible for account operations tracking, process compliance activities and repeatable administrative actions with mínimal coordination or ambiguity related to the process areas
- Someone with analytical bent of mind who can work on providing continuous improvement ideas
- Works closely with different teams like resource mgmt., revenue, finance to ensure smooth month, quarter & year end closing process

**Technical Skills**
- Proficient with MS office suite (MS Excel, MS outlook etc)

**Functional Skills**
- Experience in at least one of the process areas Project/Time, Contracts/Invoicing/AR is preferred, Order management and master data management will be preferred
- Resource who has strong process/Business knowledge and experience with Order-to-Cash process
- Conducting UAT and securing Sign Offs for new requirements under supervision of Technical team/Lead
- Preferred Operations or Back-office Support Services background
- Strong communication (verbal and written) & analytical skills and the ability to understand complex business problems and propose solutions.

**Management Skills**
- Self-managed individual who can effectively organize and manage activities, drive attention to detail, ensure quality of deliverables and optimize results
- Flexible to business requirements
- Coordinate with internal resources and stakeholders for the flawless execution of work
- Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management
- Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of change requests/requirements

Maintaining SLAs and resolving issues within SLA