Global Billing Operations - Senior Manager

Responsibilities:-

• Business As Usual (BAU) Activities:
• General responsibility for all operational invoicing activities
• End-to-end responsibility for a major group of the billing process: Invoice preparation and review
• Oversee and manage the invoice review team to achieve global consistency and effectiveness in controls; accurate, quality work; and transparency into activities and results. Maintain a robust control environment: process controls, process oversight and process governance responsibility
• Develop the team to adopt “owner’s mind set”, work independently, and effectively manage timelines
• Manage resources to assist with ad-hoc invoice projects
• Measure progress toward goals; and evaluate productivity and team efficiency. Review and assess regularly with team members and with management
• May serve as a subject matter expert on particular invoice related issues
• Coaches the team and gathers feedback for performance appraisals
• Process Re-Engineering, Standardization, and Automation:
• Assist with the process Re-Engineering, Standardization, and Automation efforts for invoicing
• Responsible for ongoing process improvements
• Expectations:
• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Finance, CPA Qualified with an experience minimum of 10 to 12 years working with invoices in a global billing function at a large financial services institution.
• Knowledge of various services and industry trends of billing methods for those services like Custody services, Sub custodian, trust services and out pocket expense billing, asset management etc.
• Experience of building and maintaining strong control environment (risk excellence, experience with SOX, RCSA controls, etc.), establishing policies, procedures and strong internal controls.
• Demonstrated leadership in improving/building-out the invoice function for multiple geographies and business areas
• Experience assisting with re-engineering processes and driving similar centralization of the end-to-end activities for the major financial institutions
• Skills required:
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Visio), advance levels of Excel (pivot tables, formulas, excel workbook maintenance best practices)
• Knowledge of billing systems
• Conceptual understanding of company-wide financial architecture (GL, sub-GL technology, specialized tools) applicable to the above process groups of processes
• First level management expertise required
• Independent decision-making capabilities, demonstrated thought leadership
• Pride of ownership with the ability to deliver high quality results timely
• Self-motivated, self-assured, and self-managed
• Strong analytical and ability to analyze and summarize complex financial transactions
• Strong attention to details
• Problem solving skill
• Highly organized with ability to multi-task and work under high pressure deadlines
• Must be able to work in a fast paced environment

About State Street

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Finance, CPA Qualified with an experience minimum of 10 to 12 years working with invoices in a global billing function at a large financial services institution.