Senior Manager - Accounts Payable and Travel & Expense

Role Overview

Azurity Pharmaceuticals seeks a Senior Manager to lead the Accounts Payable (AP) and Travel & Expense (T&E) functions at our Hyderabad Mindspace location. This full-time position demands a proactive leader focused on process enhancement and maintaining high-quality financial operations. The role is essential in establishing strong internal relationships, resolving disputes, and ensuring stakeholder satisfaction with the AP team’s outputs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the entire AP automation and transformation agenda, including e-invoicing, OCR invoice capture, AI-driven invoice coding, 2-way/3-way invoice matching, workflow approvals, and streamlined vendor payment generation using Oracle systems.
• Serve as the functional lead with IT and Oracle administrators for AP modules deployed on Oracle Fusion Cloud or Oracle EBS; responsible for configuring matching tolerances, hold statuses, payment terms, and approval workflows.
• Establish and monitor key automated process metrics such as straight-through processing rates, touchless invoice percentages, hold/exceptions rates, invoice processing costs, cycle times, and early payment discounts.
• Continuously explore and implement emerging AI and automation technologies in procure-to-pay operations to improve process efficiency beyond initial solutions.
• Manage comprehensive AP operations for several legal entities and international contexts including invoice processing and T&E integration.
• Oversee payment execution across various methods and currencies (ACH, wire transfers, checks), manage scheduling and cash flow considerations, and enforce anti-fraud controls.
• Govern vendor master data administration with appropriate segregation of duties and fraud prevention measures.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 7-8 AP professionals, ensuring proper workload distribution and achievement of quality and service level agreements across multiple countries.
• Handle AP month-end closing tasks such as accruals, aging and reconciliation, goods-received-not-invoiced analyses, and financial reporting to controllership.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations Finance, and Tax teams regarding invoice disputes and accruals, especially in relation to finished goods-buy models.
• Act as AP control owner for SOX and internal controls compliance, supporting audit processes.
• Address escalations and disputes with vendors, maintaining strong partnerships despite complexity.
• Maintain full accountability for payment processing and coordinate closely with treasury teams.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• At least 10 years of experience in accounts payable with progressive responsibility, including 2-3 years in supervisory roles.
• Demonstrated leadership and management capabilities, with a focus on team motivation and fostering collaborative work environments.
• Experience using Oracle ERP platforms.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Preferred Education

A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field is preferred.