Associate, Billing

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Ankura is recognized as one of the five fastest growing consulting companies with over 2,000 employees across 32 offices in four continents, providing a range of advisory and expert services to the private and public sector.

Location:
Cyber City, Gurgaon

Practice Overview
At Ankura, our Global Finance Organization culture is highly collaborative. We prioritize a continuous learning environment, focused on skill development and career growth. A successful candidate is someone with strong accounting knowledge, and a growth mindset, who is focused on innovation and process improvement.

Role Overview
Biller is responsible for preparing, reviewing and issuing accurate invoices to clients/customers, ensuring timely collection of receivables, and maintaining accurate billing records. This role plays a key part in the company's revenue cycle by supporting efficient cash flow management and resolving billing-related queries.

Why Join Ankura

• We can support and develop individuals who aspire to be an expert.
• Vast opportunities for career development, with formal development process, training programs and internal e-learning training platform, Ankura Academy.
• Work within a team of world recognized leading experts in an established leading global consultancy.
• Work with a collaborative environment, where our professionals have the freedom to innovate which promotes curiosity, learning and communication.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Invoice Preparation: Coordinate the initial loading of time and expense details by the billing team for distribution to project managers, initiating the monthly billing cycle.
• Pre-Billing Validation: Conduct validations to minimize errors and reduce client disputes.
• Invoice Drafting and Finalization: Assist in drafting and finalizing invoices directly within Workday.
• Contract Compliance: Verify billing data against contracts, purchase orders, and agreements to ensure accuracy.
• Reporting and Analysis: Generate Workday reports to support project billing and revenue management.
• Data Integrity: Maintain accurate project and billing data in Workday to enable reliable reporting.
• Audit and Quality Control: Perform weekly/monthly spot checks on invoices and project folders to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Project Closure Review: Review project balance sheet reports to confirm readiness for closure.
• Invoice Posting: Upload finalized invoices and supporting documentation to Workday and the Billing Team Shared Drive.
• E-Billing Support: Assist the E-Billing Administrator with invoice submissions, accruals, and follow-ups.
• Portal Management: Prepare, upload, and submit invoices via client/vendor eBilling portals within agreed timelines. Monitor invoice status (submitted, approved, rejected, pending) and take corrective actions as needed.
• Month-End Activities: Support month-end closing processes related to billing.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare and distribute financial reports related to eBilling activities.

Requirements

• Minimum 3-year degree required; bachelor's degree preferred.
• Finance or accounting background preferred. Should have 3-6 years of relevant experience.
• Understanding of general accounting principles as they apply to Billings and A/R
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel); strong skills in Excel preferred.
• Ability to meet deadlines and meet specific service level metrics.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Workday Financials experience is a plus.

Key Competencies

• Analytical thinking and problem solving
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Customer Service Orientation
• Team collaboration and cross-functional coordination.

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