Hitachi—Accounts Payable - Team Leader

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Description: Function Finance Our Company We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market. Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole. Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us. Job description Responsibilities - - Lead and manage end to end Accounts Payable operations for assigned global entities, including invoice processing, vendor management, payments, employee reimbursements, and related AP activities. - Manage and develop the AP team, ensuring appropriate workload allocation, performance management, coaching, and timely resolution of operational issues. - Ensure achievement of defined KPIs and SLAs, including invoice processing TAT, on-time payments, first-pass yield, aged payables, error rates, and other operational metrics. - Oversee month end close activities, including vendor accruals, prepaid amortization, reversals, reconciliations, flux analysis, and other AP-related accounting activities. - Ensure timely and accurate execution of vendor and employee payment cycles, with appropriate review and adherence to payment controls. - Monitor AP ageing, blocked/held invoices, outstanding advances, debit balances, and other exceptions and drive timely resolution. - Act as the primary point of contact for AP operational escalations and work closely with Finance Controllers, Procurement, Treasury, R2R, business teams, and other stakeholders. - Ensure compliance with company policies, accounting standards, internal controls, approval matrices, and process governance requirements. - Support internal and external audits, including preparation of supporting documentation, timely responses to audit queries, and closure of observations/action items. - Maintain strong controls around invoice processing, vendor payments, employee expenses, and segregation of duties. - Review operational performance, identify root causes of recurring issues, and implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions. - Drive process standardization, continuous improvement, and automation opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and control. - Demonstrate strong ownership and proactively identify and resolve issues rather than relying on escalations from stakeholders.(empty) #LI-PN1 About us We’re a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future. Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth. We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work. How we look after you We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with. We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.