Senior Finance Executive - Accounts Receivable

Role & responsibilities

Billing & Invoicing:

• Own the end-to-end customer billing cycle across all sites and contracts, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and on-time invoicing.
• Coordinate with Operations and BD teams to validate billing inputs (headcount, consumption, contracted rates, scope variations) before invoice generation.
• Ensure compliance with GST, e-invoicing, and other applicable statutory requirements on outgoing invoices.

Collections & Customer Management

• Drive collections from corporate customers; monitor ageing, follow up on overdue invoices, and proactively resolve disputes to keep DSO within target.
• Act as the primary finance point of contact for customer queries on billing, payments, debit/credit notes, and reconciliations.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with customer AP teams and internal BD owners to accelerate collections.

Reconciliation, Credit Control & Reporting

• Perform periodic customer account reconciliations and resolve unapplied receipts, deductions, and short payments in a timely manner.
• Reconcile TDS receivable with Form 26AS / AIS and follow up with customers for missing TDS certificates.
• Monitor customer credit limits, payment terms, and exposure; flag elevated risk accounts and recommend appropriate credit actions.
• Review ageing buckets, recommend provisions for doubtful debts, and present write-off proposals where warranted.
• Prepare and circulate AR MIS ageing, DSO, collections forecasts, dispute logs, and customer-wise dashboards to management.

Audit, Compliance & Process Improvement

• Support statutory, tax, and internal audits with AR schedules, reconciliations, and explanations.
• Identify opportunities to streamline AR processes, strengthen controls, and improve automation within the ERP environment.
• Mentor and review the work of junior AR team members; ensure SLAs, accuracy, and turnaround standards are met.

Preferred candidate profile :

• Prior experience in the catering, food services, hospitality, or manufacturing sector ideally involving multi-site billing and high transaction volumes.
• Hands-on experience with SAP (FI-AR / SD-Billing modules); exposure to SAP S/4HANA will be an added advantage.
• Experience working with corporate customers on portal-based invoicing, e-invoicing, and ageing follow-ups.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring a small AR team.