Project Assistant - Account receivable

The opportunity:

Hitachi Energy is a world leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We are advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible, and secure, and we collaborate with customers and partners to enable a sustainable energy future – for today’s generations and those to come. The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 3000+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, project Management, functional system testing, installation supervision, documentation and commissioning. However, over the last decade, it has evolved to become the largest Operations hub. The India Operations Centre team at Chennai, Bangalore and Gurugram supports Hitachi Energy’s units in more than 40 countries across a wide portfolio of all the four business units in Hitachi Energy to date, the team has executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries

How you’ll make an impact:

• Supporting Lead Project Manager on Account Receivables (AR) which includes having the complete list of AR’s every month. Will be responsible to ensure invoices are received on customer end and everything is in line with their requirements

• and can pay on time. Pro-Actively work with customer and conducting periodic audits of financial information.

• Review of Invoices created and ensuring send on time to customer.

• Plan and conduct investigations, audits and analysis of a variety of financial information used in the preparation of forecasts.

• Work on preparation of reports needed for financial aspects in terms of overdue and cash flow.

• Coordination with project managers to ensure accounts receivable are collected on time.

• Follow-up with Project managers on ensuring milestone invoicing is done correctly and submission of documents to customers.

• Closely coordinate and document change requests related to in-voices re-aging or changes on invoices after approval from Project managers.

• Pro Active communication with Customers to avoid overdue.

• Project Margin review and analysis

• Adhere to the project management processes in the organization

• Ensure implementation and compliance of OHS group guidelines

• Ensure Hitachi Energy integrity guidelines are followed in the team

• Ensure IS security policy followed in the team

• Acts as role model within organization. Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business

Your background:

• 2+years of experience on working on finance domain / account receivables.

• Experience in project execution is preferred.

• Should possess strong leadership skills and ability to convince stakeholders in the interest of the project.

• Ability to work under pressure to deliver the projects with time, cost and quality.

• Strong negotiation and communication skills

• SAP and Microsoft Office Skills is must

• Building a good working relationship with customer to ensure that we have payments received on time.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality digital solutions