Senior Associate

About the role
Refer to you will be responsible for section

You will be responsible for
In this job, I am accountable for:

- Manage accounts payable exceptions  

- Manage queries from internal/external teams 

- Ensuring to maintain 100% of accuracy of any information input in the system at all times 

- Calling out any deviations from the process immediately and reporting it 

- Investigate, resolve or escalate supplier invoices and disputes as required, Considers opportunities (RCA) to avoid 

recurring issues and educate relevant stakeholders  

- Builds on Tesco processes and knowledge by applying CI tools and techniques.  

- Pro-actively resolves issues by collaborating with relevant teams/suppliers in accordance with Controls 

- Ensure supplier balance reconciliation are performed 

- Working alongside with the different business to ensure 'Supplier' gets paid on time 

- Ensuring 100% compliance to internal/external audit and any other regulations the process deals with  

- Prepare, process and record payments including create, re-processing, manual payments, terminate file   

- Responsible for completing tasks and transactions within agreed KPI's 

- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence 

- Understands business needs and in depth understanding of Tesco processes

- Process Mapping Tools and Techniques 

- Communication  

- Numerical Ability

You will need
Experience relevant for this job:

- Advanced MS Office - Excel, Word etc. 

Prior experience of working in an Accounts Payable 

- Basic Power Point  

Process is preferred 

- Eye-to-Detail  

- Speed and Accuracy 

- Planning and Organizing 

Whats in it for you?
At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. 

As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. 

Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.  

Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles - simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. 

Salary
- Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. 

Performance Bonus
- Opportunity to earn additional compensation bonus based on performance, paid annually 

Leave & Time-off
- Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company's policy. 

Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary
- In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. 

Health is Wealth
- Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. 

Mental Wellbeing
- We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.  

Financial Wellbeing
- Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.  

Save As You Earn (SAYE)
- Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.  

Physical Wellbeing
- Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle. 

About Us

Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers. 

Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues. 

Tesco Business Solutions:

Established in 2017, Tesco Business Solutions (TBS) has evolved from a single entity traditional shared services in Bengaluru, India (from 2004) to a global, purpose-driven solutions-focused organisation. TBS is committed to driving scale at speed and delivering value to the Tesco Group through the power of decision science. With over 4,400 highly skilled colleagues globally, TBS supports markets and business units across four locations in the UK, India, Hungary, and the Republic of Ireland. The organisation underpins everything that the Tesco Group does, bringing innovation, a solutions mindset, and agility to its operations and support functions, building winning partnerships across the business. TBS's focus is on adding value and creating impactful outcomes that shape the future of the business. TBS creates a sustainable competitive advantage for the Tesco Group by becoming the partner of choice for talent, transformation, and value creation