Job title: Invoice-to-Pay and Accounts Payable Analyst
Location: Hyderabad

About the job:
At Sanofi we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We are dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of the patients and families we serve, and we accomplish our goals through world-class research and with the compassion and commitment of our employees.

As we continue to transform the practice of medicine, the next chapter of Sanofi’s Play to Win strategy will require a focus on delivering transformation and simplification of our core processes, optimizing resource allocation and deployment to fuel business growth and investment in science.

To facilitate this transformation, a new Business Operations Business Unit is being established, bringing together existing business service activities, and driving further expansion of centralized services at scale into a global unit, with a focus on driving simplification, efficiency, and productivity.

This new Business Unit will enable the delivery of best-in-class business support capabilities across the organization, incorporating and engaging disparate teams from across areas such as R&D, M&S, the Corporate Functions and GBUs into new global Service Delivery Towers with initial services spanning Commercial, Finance, Procurement and People & Culture.

Reporting to the Head of S2P Delivery, the Invoice-to-Pay and Accounts Payable Analyst plays a critical role in managing the accounts payable end-to-end process of from invoice receiving, invoice processing to invoice payment. This position involves also the execution of month-end-activities ensuring the accurate and timely payment to suppliers while adhering to financial policies and regulatory requirements.


Responsibilities

• Invoice Receiving: Ensure in collaboration with service providers and Digital team proper receiving of invoices through inbound channels.
• Invoice Processing: Efficiently process invoices, verifying accuracy, and ensuring compliance with relevant policies and collaborate with internal stakeholders and BPO to resolve discrepancies and obtain necessary approvals for complex cases.
• Accounts Payable Management & Month End Closing: Manage in collaboration with the BPO the account payable process, including the timely and accurate recording of financial transactions and reconcile accounts payable records with supplier statements and resolve discrepancies for complex cases.
• Payment Processing: Coordinate in collaboration with the BPO and internal teams the payment process, ensuring timely disbursement to suppliers and validate payment requests against approved invoices and payment terms .
• Compliance and Documentation: Ensure adherence of all processes in scope to financial policies, regulatory requirements, internal controls, and S2P Core Model and maintain organized and accurate documentation related to invoice-to-pay processes.
• Issue Resolution: Address and resolve issues related to invoices, payments, and accounts payable and communicate with suppliers and internal teams to resolve payment-related queries.

Qualifications

Required:

• Previous experience in accounts payable, invoice processing, or related financial roles.
• Familiarity with financial systems and tools from business perspective and technical fundamentals: ERP (SAP preferred), invoice workflow tools.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Transversal competencies and ability to work across processes, geographies, languages, cultures, business maturity levels.
• Strong commitment to continuous process improvements
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).


Preferred:
• Knowledge of ERP systems, such as SAP.
• Understanding of financial and procurement best practices.
• Degree in finance, accounting, or a relevant field.
 

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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