Manager – Billing - Invoice to Cash

Job Description

Overview:

Our Finance Shared Services (FSS), located in Bengaluru, India is looking to strengthen its teams in preparation of an imminent Global finance transformation with exciting new positions being created in multiple functions.

At AtkinsRéalis FSS, we bring global value to our organization, managing various finance and accounting transactions while driving transformation and innovation. The Finance, Accounting and Procurement functions are co-located, and work with colleagues and partners around the world. The increasing range of activities and roles based in the FSS will offer you great potential for career progression and take part in shaping the future of the FSS.

About the job

Job title: Manager – Invoice to Cash Role family: Finance

Department: Finance Shared Services Location: Bangalore

Purpose of the role

The key purpose of this role is to manage and lead a significant portion of the Client Billing team that is involved in preparation and issuance of project invoices to customers. This role will ensure that processes within Project accounting scope are adhered to optimize our accounts receivables processes, maintaining healthy cash flow, reducing our global financial risk while building strong relationships with our customers and partners to ultimate drive business benefits that support our journey to World Class

Key Accountabilities

• Managing a team of billing specialists and project accountants, ensuring accurate and timely billing, monitoring project financial's (unbilled and PSR), and optimizing our billing processes.

• Oversee the billing and invoicing process for all projects, ensuring accuracy and compliance with client contracts/specifications

• Collaborate with project managers to understand project details and milestones for accurate billing

• Conduct monthly governance meetings with Senior financial controllers and divisional finance directors to discuss performance against KPIs and other billing issues

• Act as one point of contact for the project managers of various divisions in the region for any escalation management
• Manage any issues with invoice quality caused by failure of technology or billing processes, driving resolution of issues and mitigation of repeat issues

• Meet agreed KPIs as per the SLA for billing

Professional & Technical skills

• Strong knowledge of billing and receivable processes, including invoicing, analyzing lock-up tracker and project life cycle of a professional services firm

• Proficiency in using ERP Systems (preferably Oracle) and workflow tools to manage billing processes and generate accurate invoices

• Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks

• Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal)

• High level of professionalism, integrity, and confidentiality when dealing with sensitive billing and financial information

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, for data analysis and reporting

People Skills

• Ability to set clear performance goals and expectations in line with FSS strategies and SLAs

• Conduct regular performance evaluations and provide constructive feedback

• Inspire and motivate the team to achieve optimal performance, productivity and quality

• Timely recognition of hard work, performance and initiatives by the team members

• Coach and mentor people part of the team and also within FSS

• Collaborative and inclusive team culture where each team member feels valued

• Build strong working relationships among team members, line manager, peer group and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• B’COM/MBA – Finance

• 10+ years of experience in O2C process of a International company

• Minimum 5 years of people management experience

Additional Information

Working hours: 4.00pm – 1.30pm (India Standard Time) Work Location: Yelahanka, Bangalore

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.