Accounts Payable-Assistant Manager -French -Hybrid Cairo

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Inviting applications for the role of Accounts Payable-Assistant Manager -French -Hybrid Cairo
In this role, you will manage daily Accounts Payable operations. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, support compliance efforts, and contribute to process improvements.
Responsibilities
• Manage end-to-end AP operations, including invoice processing, payment execution, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Supervise and mentor AP team members, providing guidance, training, and performance feedback to ensure operational excellence.
• Monitor team performance against SLAs and KPIs, identifying gaps and implementing corrective actions to meet service standards.
• Manage vendor relationships and escalations, resolving complex discrepancies, payment issues, and ensuring timely communication.
• Serve as a point of contact for internal stakeholders and clients, ensuring alignment on AP processes, expectations, and issue resolution.
• Lead monthly and quarterly closing activities, including AP schedules, accruals for unreceived invoices, clearing aged items, and preparing audit-ready documentation.
• Drive process optimization and automation initiatives, identifying improvement opportunities and collaborating with IT and finance teams to implement solutions.
• Investigate and resolve invoice holds, payment exceptions, and debit balances, coordinating with procurement, finance, and vendors to ensure resolution and prevent recurrence.
• Conduct freight invoice audits, validating logistics charges against contracts, shipment terms, and delivery documentation to ensure accurate billing.
• Coordinate with customs and logistics teams to ensure proper documentation, duty payments, and compliance with import/export regulations
• Manage direct debit transactions, ensuring proper authorization, tracking, and reconciliation in SAP.
• Handle intercompany payables, ensuring accurate posting, reconciliation, and timely settlement of intercompany transactions across global entities.
• Lead monthly and quarterly closing activities, including AP schedules, accruals for unreceived invoices, clearing aged items..
• Ensure adherence to internal controls, SOX compliance, and audit requirements.
• Drive process optimization and automation initiatives, identifying improvement opportunities and collaborating with IT and finance teams to implement solutions.

Qualifications we seek in you!
Minimum Qualifications/Skills
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• Progressive experience in Accounts Payable, with minimum years in a supervisory or assistant manager capacity.
• Hands-on experience with SAP ERP systems.
• Proven experience in managing AP operations in a high-volume, multinational manufacturing environment.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles and AP workflows.
• Strong understanding of VAT regulations, tax codes, and compliance requirements.
• Advanced Excel proficiency.
• Strong command of French (spoken and written) is a must.
• English proficiency at B2 level.

Preferred Qualifications/Skills
• Master's degree or MBA is a plus.
• Experience with automation tools and process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma).
• Proven experience in client-facing roles, with the ability to build trust, manage expectations, and deliver value-added insights.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Why join Genpact?
• Lead AI-first transformation - Build and scale AI solutions that redefine industries
• Make an impact - Drive change for global enterprises and solve business challenges that matter
• Accelerate your career-Gain hands-on experience, world-class training, mentorship, and AI certifications to advance your skills
• Grow with the best - Learn from top engineers, data scientists, and AI experts in a dynamic, fast-moving workplace
• Committed to ethical AI - Work in an environment where governance, transparency, and security are at the core of everything we build
• Thrive in a values-driven culture - Our courage, curiosity, and incisiveness - built on a foundation of integrity and inclusion - allow your ideas to fuel progress
Come join the 140,000+ coders, tech shapers, and growth makers at Genpact and take your career in the only direction that matters: Up.
Let's build tomorrow together.

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