Accountant (Direct Contract, 18 Months)

Volvo — Bengaluru, Karnataka

₹4–8 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · 1–4 yrs exp · Contract · onsite

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Quick answer: An 18-month contract in Bengaluru doing accounts payable in SAP: invoice matching, payment runs and vendor and customer master data. Office-based, open to any shift, and the experience floor is low enough for someone a year into their career.

From Volvo's job posting

Accountant (Direct Contract for 18 months)

Location

Bangalore, IN, 562122

Position Type: Professional

Permanent/Temporary: Temporary

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

Job Description

1. Invoice Processing and EDI

  • Processing all kind of invoices like PO, Non PO and Credit and Debit Note
  • Three way and Two-way matching of invoices and error handling
  • Interacting with the client/internal people query and resolve it
  • Preparing Report on daily basis like daily report
  • Follow-ups to finish the pending documents for payment

2. Payments

  • Executing Payment proposal and payment and Express payments
  • Handling exceptions,

3. PARMA

  • Creation and modification of Vendors accounts for group and non-group companies
  • Creation and modification of Customer accounts for group and non-group companies
  • Exercise various controls

Pre-requisites

  • Good experience in handling invoices in SAP/Oracle or any ERP
  • Good knowledge on accounting concepts
  • Effective communication skill both written and verbal
  • Open for any shift
  • Team player
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Detail oriented, professional attitude, reliable
  • Problem solving skills

Good To have Skills

  • SAP knowledge with prior transition experience would be an added advantage
  • Experience with process improvement initiatives or automation tools is a plus.

Experience

0.6 to 4 years

Education

Graduation in Commerce / Finance or business degree

At Volvo Group, we believe in the value of in-person collaboration and connection. Our general principle is that employees work from the office.We look forward to receiving your application!

Group Finance contributes to realizing the vision of the Volvo Group by developing and providing a wide range of expert services from financial planning to accounting, business controlling, M&As, financial reporting and investor relations. With Volvo Group Finance you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who work with passion, trust each other and embrace change to stay ahead. We make our customers win.

Job Category: Finance

Organization: Group Finance

Travel Required: Occasional Travel

Requisition ID: 34242

If you aspire to grow and make an impact, join us on our journey to create a better and more resilient society for the coming generations.

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The day is invoices and master data

The bulk of the work is payables: PO and non-PO invoices, credit and debit notes, two-way and three-way matching, then chasing whatever document is missing before a payment can go out. You also run payment proposals, push express payments through and clear the exceptions that fail. The third block is vendor and customer account creation and changes for group and non-group companies, with controls sitting around each change.

General ledger, month-end close and direct tax work barely feature. If you are two years into an R2R or tax role and want to stay there, this contract moves you sideways into a transaction-processing team.

The eighteen-month clock

The listing calls it a direct contract, so establish whether you sit on Volvo's payroll or a staffing partner's, and what has happened to people whose terms ended on this team. Eighteen months is long enough to get properly fast in the SAP screens and short enough that you should know your next move well before month twelve.

Transition experience and process improvement appear as good-to-haves. Those are the lines that put contract staff into permanent seats in a shared services centre, so treat any exposure to them as the real prize.

Shift work and that pin code

Open for any shift is stated plainly, so assume rotation is part of the deal. A finance shared services centre in Bengaluru serves entities across time zones, and evening or night shifts are common in this kind of setup. The address carries pin 562122, well away from the central business districts, and the company says employees work from the office.

Work out the commute from where you live before you accept. A night shift on top of a long daily ride is a different job from a day shift close to home.

The experience floor is low

Seven months or so of experience is enough to get past the first filter, which makes this a realistic step for someone one year into a shared services finance team. A commerce or finance degree is required. What matters on your CV is hands-on SAP invoice work: matching types you have handled, volumes, the ERP modules you know, and whether you have run a payment proposal yourself.

Candidates who have only studied accounting will sit behind those who have cleared a real invoice queue. Put the system and the transaction work in your first two lines.

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