
Finance Associate - Client Accounting
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work alongside Client Accounting and Finance Business Partnership teams to support project teams actively manage project (client) invoicing.
- Engage with project teams, colleagues and clients to identify and resolve issues related to project invoicing.
- Support “in-flight” client projects. Provide reporting, tracking client POs, ensuring invoicing compliance with ZS and Client policies.
- Engage effectively with resources at all levels within ZS and at our clients, as appropriate
- Manage client POs, creating and sending invoices to client.
- Ensure project financial transactions (billing, collection, time & expenses) are completed in a timely and accurate manner
- Assist with engagement startup (project setup) and shutdown activities (prepare final bill to client, etc.)
- Receive, interpret, and process billing instructions, following up with project teams for clarification as needed.
- Send invoices to clients through multiple channels (email, online, postal mail) as dictated by client.
- Manage client PO’s- receipt of PO’s, communication with project teams to assign to projects.
- Maintain electronic archive of all invoices and log of invoice details.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or business required, advanced degree welcome, with a strong record of academic achievement.
- 0-3 years of invoicing/billing experience.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook), SAP experience desirable.
- Strong analytic and critical thinking abilities
- Effective oral and written communication skills that enable strong relationship-building and stakeholder management.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Motivated and proactive.
- Professional objectivity and judgment to know when to challenge activities.
- Agile and ability to multi-task in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment.