Finance Associate

Modulr

Accounts Payable Associate Location: Mumbai * Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking to innovate? * Do you want to work in embedded payments where you can keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience? * Do you want to have the opportunity to play an important role in a rapidly growing and exciting Fintech business? If so, we would love to connect and collaborate! Who We Are Modulr is the payments automation platform that streamlines money movement with accuracy, control and reliability — built to scale. We process more than 200m transactions and over £180bn in payment value on an annualised basis, and we’re trusted by over 6,000 businesses from fast-growing SMEs to global enterprises. We automate how money moves into and out of a business — payroll, supplier payments, spend management and payment collection — through a single platform, connected to the accounting and payroll systems finance teams already use and underpinned by principal memberships of Visa and Mastercard and direct access to central bank infrastructure. As a regulated payments provider with over a decade of experience, we’re the platform finance teams trust to run mission-critical operations. Modulr is backed by PayPal, FIS, General Atlantic, Blenheim Chalcot, Frog Capital and Highland Europe, with over 400 employees across London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Mumbai and Pune. Purpose of the Role We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Accounts Payable Associate to support end-to-end AP operations across Global entities. This is a hands-on processing role working closely with the Accounts Payable Lead and the wider Finance team. The successful candidate will play a key role in the accurate and timely execution of day-to-day Accounts Payable activities, including supplier invoicing, payments, travel C expenses, and corporate credit card management, while supporting a well-controlled and scalable AP department. Key Responsibilities  Accounts Payable — Invoice Processing  * Process supplier invoices in NetSuite, ensuring accuracy of coding and cost centre allocation  * Apply appropriate tax treatment to invoices, including GST and TDS for Indian entity transactions  * Perform invoice validation checks including duplicate detection, completeness, and PO matching where applicable  * Monitor and action invoice approval workflows in a timely manner  * Run and review key AP reports such as open bills, rejected invoices, and duplicate reports  * Investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies and supplier queries  * Allocate payments and match invoices within NetSuite  * Monitor AP inboxes and workflows to ensure timely processing and prioritisation  * Support payment run preparation, checking accuracy of amounts, currencies, and due dates    Vendor & Data Management  * Create and maintain vendor records in NetSuite, ensuring correct and complete data  * Update supplier bank details in line with internal controls and approval processes  * Support onboarding new vendors in compliance with company policies  * Maintain accurate audit trails for all changes    Travel & Expense Management  * Review and process employee expense claims in line with company policy  * Monitor and action expense approval workflows  * Identify and reject non-compliant or incomplete claims  * Respond to employee queries on expense submissions and policy requirements  * Assist with expense payment cycles, ensuring alignment with payroll or payment schedules  * Support travel bookings through Perk and assist with queries relating to cancellations or amendments    Corporate Credit Card Management  * Support the end-to-end credit card process including transaction matching and reconciliation  * Investigate discrepancies and ensure timely resolution  * Monitor card usage and flag any policy non-compliance  * Assist with allocation of credit card spend across entities and cost centres    Reconciliations & Month-End Support  * Prepare vendor statement reconciliations  * Assist in month-end close activities, ensuring all invoices are recorded in the correct period  * Support balance sheet reconciliations for AP accounts (prepared in India, reviewed in UK)   * Investigate and help clear aged balances    Controls, Compliance & Audit  * Ensure all invoices are processed in line with internal policies and approval thresholds  * Maintain adherence to segregation of duties and financial controls  * Escalate any control issues or risks to the Accounts Payable Lead or UK Finance team    Key Skills & Experience  Essential  * 1-3 years of experience in an Accounts Payable, Finance Operations, or similar role  * Strong understanding of invoice processing and payment cycles  * Experience with ERP systems, ideally NetSuite or a comparable platform  * Knowledge of Indian GST and TDS compliance for local entity processing  * High attention to detail and accuracy  * Strong organisational skills and ability to manage high volumes  * Good written and verbal communication in English, particularly for liaising with UK-based colleagues  * Proficiency in Microsoft Excel including VLOOKUP and pivot tables  * Experience using automation tools and AI-driven solutions to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability within Accounts Payable processes  * Ability to work across UK and India time zone overlap hours    Desirable  * Understanding of UK financial control expectations   * Exposure to expense & travel management platforms  * Interest in process improvement or AP automation initiatives  ModInclusion At Modulr, we’re committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong and can bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds as we believe it’s the right thing for our people, our business, and the community we operate in.

WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.  We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.    We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.   Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.    For more information, visit WPP.com.   Job Title: Enterprise Transformation Modelling Lead - Finance & People WPP is embarking on a pivotal, multi-year enterprise-wide transformation program focused on modernizing and optimizing our Finance and People functions to unlock significant value. We are seeking an exceptional and analytically rigorous Enterprise Transformation Modelling Lead - Finance & People to own and evolve the core financial case model that underpins this critical initiative. This role will have end-to-end accountability for developing, maintaining, and socializing the transformation’s integrated financial model. Working in close partnership with the Head of Enterprise Transformation PMO - Finance & People, transformation workstream leads, and key business stakeholders, this role ensures that decisions on scope, sequencing, investment, and delivery are supported by robust modelling, scenario analysis, and credible assumptions. The successful candidate will be instrumental in translating transformation ambition into an evidence-based, decision-ready financial case, in line with leading value-anchored transformation and FP&A practices. This role requires a leader with financial modelling capability, commercial judgment, and the ability to simplify complexity into clear choices for senior stakeholders. They will create confidence in the model, drive consistency in assumptions, test scenarios and sensitivities, and enable iterative dialogue with workstream owners.   Key Responsibilities: Transformation Financial Model Ownership & Integrity: * Build and own the end-to-end transformation financial case model, including structure, logic, assumptions, outputs, and version control, ensuring it remains accurate, transparent, and useful throughout the life of the program. The model must cover (though not necessarily be limited to) cost-to-implement, run-rate impacts, benefit timing, phasing, dependencies, and financial risks across the Finance & People transformation portfolio. * Establish modelling standards, documentation, and controls so that key assumptions, formula logic, and scenario outputs are auditable, repeatable, and easy for stakeholders to understand and challenge constructively. Scenario Planning, Sensitivity Analysis & Strategic Trade-offs: * Support scenario planning across the program, modelling alternative scope, timing, sequencing, adoption, and delivery pathways to inform executive choices and investment decisions. * Run sensitivities on and validate key assumptions such as savings timing, implementation cost, vendor spend, headcount impacts, and transition risks to assess downside, upside, and confidence ranges. * Support scenario planning across the program, modelling alternative scope, timing, sequencing, adoption, and delivery pathways to inform executive choices and investment decisions. * Run sensitivities on and validate key assumptions such as savings timing, implementation cost, vendor spend, headcount impacts, and transition risks to assess downside, upside, and confidence ranges. * Translate complex modelling outputs into clear options, trade-offs, and recommendations that support fast, fact-based decision-making. Business Case Development & Workstream Iteration: * Partner with workstream leads to convert initiative concepts into robust, quantified business cases with clear assumptions, dependencies, and benefit mechanisms. * Socialise the model and its outputs with stakeholders across Finance, People, PMO, and delivery teams, using structured challenge and iteration to improve accuracy, ownership, and delivery confidence. * Support stage gates and governance forums by stress-testing proposals, identifying modelling gaps, and helping initiative owners refine scope or sequencing to improve ROI and achievability. Insight Generation, Reporting & Decision Support: * Ensure clear and compelling executive-ready outputs from the model, including scenario summaries, bridge analyses, value waterfalls, and implications for financial performance. * Provide a single, trusted analytical view of transformation value to support prioritization, reforecasting, and performance discussions across leadership forums. * Highlight key modelling risks, assumption changes, and emerging variances early, and recommend actions to preserve value and maintain confidence in the transformation case. Partnership with Finance, PMO & Enterprise Stakeholders: * Work closely with the Enterprise Transformation Finance Lead and Head of Enterprise Transformation PMO - Finance & People to ensure the integrated roadmap remains grounded in financial logic and measurable value creation. * Partner with FP&A, Controllership, HR/People Finance, procurement, and workstream teams to align assumptions, validate inputs, and ensure consistency with enterprise reporting and planning processes where appropriate. * Strengthen modelling literacy across the program by providing practical templates, guidance, and coaching to initiative owners on assumptions, benefits estimation, and scenario construction.   Skills & Experience: Experience: * 8+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, transformation finance, transaction services, strategic modelling, management consultancy, or enterprise performance management, with a strong record of building complex business-case models. * Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale transformation, operating model redesign, shared services, or ERP/HCM programs. * Proven track record of partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to iterate assumptions, challenge proposals, and turn ambiguous transformation activity into quantified financial cases. * Experience developing executive-level materials that translate modelling outputs into clear recommendations for governance, prioritization, and investment decisions. Modelling, Scenario Planning & Analytical Acumen: * Advanced financial modelling capability, including experience in a transformation context. * Strong commercial judgment with the ability to connect operational drivers, delivery assumptions, and organizational dependencies to financial outcomes. * Highly structured thinker with strong attention to detail, able to balance precision with pace and pragmatism in a fast-moving environment. Stakeholder Management & Communication: * Excellent communicator who can explain complex modelling concepts and financial implications clearly to senior non-finance stakeholders as well as finance specialists. * Strong influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively and the credibility to build alignment across multiple workstreams. * Collaborative operator with experience working across global, matrixed teams and balancing competing stakeholder priorities. Execution & Drive: * High ownership and resilience, with the ability to manage multiple modelling cycles, deadlines, and governance requirements without compromising quality. * Outcome-focused and resilient, able to operate in a fast-paced environment where plans evolve and evidence must be updated continually. Education: * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related analytical field. * MBA or relevant Master’s degree preferred. Certifications (Preferred): * ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, CPA or equivalent professional qualification.   We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY NOTICE (HTTPS://WWW.WPP.COM/EN/CAREERS/WPP-PRIVACY-POLICY-FOR-RECRUITMENT) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW WE PROCESS THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.

WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.  We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.    We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.   Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.    For more information, visit WPP.com.   Job Title: Enterprise Transformation Headcount Tracking & Benefits Realization Lead - Finance & People WPP is embarking on a pivotal, multi-year enterprise-wide transformation program focused on modernizing and optimizing our Finance and People functions to unlock significant value. We are seeking an exceptional and detail-oriented Enterprise Transformation Headcount Tracking & Benefits Realisation Lead - Finance & People to lead workforce-related benefit tracking and provide a transparent view of headcount movements linked to the transformation. This role will have accountability for operating the transformation headcount tracker and connecting workforce movements to benefits realization. Working in close partnership with the PMO, transformation workstream leads, and business stakeholders, this role ensures that exits, offshore hires, role transitions, vacancy closures, and other workforce actions are accurately captured, validated, and translated into measurable and reportable benefits. The successful candidate will emphasize clear ownership, measurable KPIs, robust reporting, and strong alignment between people data and strategic outcomes. This role requires a leader with analytical discipline, excellent data stewardship, and the ability to connect detailed workforce changes to the broader transformation value story. They will establish confidence in workforce data, create a rigorous reporting rhythm, enforce benefit definitions and evidence standards, and surface risks or slippage early so corrective action can be taken. Key Responsibilities: Headcount Tracking, Workforce Data & Controls: * Own and operate the transformation headcount tracker, ensuring accurate, timely, and complete capture of workforce movements across in-scope functions, geographies, and workstreams. * Track and reconcile exits, offshore hires, redeployments, role eliminations, vacancy management, backfills, and other workforce actions against approved transformation plans and benefit assumptions. * Establish data standards, definitions, and controls for workforce-related measures so that reporting is consistent, auditable, and trusted across Finance, People, and program governance forums. Benefits Realization & Value Tracking: * Translate workforce movements into quantified benefits realization, linking headcount actions to savings, timing, run-rate impacts, and in-year delivery against the approved business case. * Maintain the benefits register and supporting evidence for workforce-related initiatives, ensuring benefit definitions, baselines, owners, milestones, and realization criteria are clearly documented. * Differentiate committed, forecast, and realized benefits, and ensure that upward reporting reflects actual delivery confidence rather than nominal plan assumptions. Reporting, Governance & Escalation: * Support the reporting cadence for workforce-related benefits, including dashboards, exception reports, and executive summaries showing performance against plan, variances, and emerging risks. * Provide regular reporting upward to program leadership and governance forums, clearly explaining what has been delivered, what is at risk, and what actions are required to protect value. * Escalate issues promptly where workforce actions are delayed, unsupported by evidence, inconsistent with approved assumptions, or at risk of failing to convert into financial benefits. Partnership with People, Finance & Workstream Leads: * Partner closely with HR/People operations, workforce planning, People Finance, shared services, and workstream leads to validate headcount actions and ensure a joined-up view of workforce change. * Work with Finance and FP&A teams to align headcount reporting with financial forecasts, savings tracking, and accounting treatment where required. * Support initiative owners in understanding evidence requirements, benefit rules, and reporting expectations, reinforcing discipline and accountability across the program. People Analytics, Insight & Continuous Improvement: * Use workforce and people data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities in areas such as attrition, redeployment, hiring patterns, delivery bottlenecks, and timing slippage. * Improve the design of workforce metrics, tracker logic, and reporting outputs over time so leaders can make faster, better-informed decisions on transformation delivery. * Help shape the broader workforce value narrative by connecting detailed people movements to strategic workforce planning, cost optimization, and long-term operating model outcomes. Skills & Experience: Experience: * 6+ years of progressive experience in workforce reporting, people analytics, HR operations, transformation PMO, benefits tracking, finance partnering, or a similar analytical delivery role. * Demonstrated experience maintaining headcount or workforce trackers in complex organizations, ideally in the context of transformation, restructuring, shared services, offshoring, or operating model change. * Experience linking people data to financial outcomes, business cases, or benefits realization, with clear evidence of disciplined tracking and executive reporting. * Proven ability to work across HR, Finance, and business stakeholders to reconcile different data sources and drive a single trusted view of workforce impacts. Benefits Realization, Workforce Reporting & Analytical Acumen: * Strong understanding of benefits realization concepts, including baselines, benefit ownership, evidence requirements, KPIs, and sustainment. * Strong analytical skills with experience interpreting workforce data, reconciling exceptions, and identifying the operational causes of benefit under-delivery or delay. * Comfortable working with large data sets and multiple source systems, with a disciplined approach to data quality, controls, and reporting accuracy. Stakeholder Management & Communication: * Excellent communicator able to present detailed workforce information in a clear, concise, and decision-oriented way to senior stakeholders. * Strong influencing skills and the confidence to challenge inconsistent data, unsupported claims, or weak evidence while maintaining productive working relationships. * Collaborative and pragmatic, able to work effectively across global, matrixed teams with different data owners, priorities, and levels of analytical maturity. Execution & Drive: * High attention to detail, with strong follow-through and the ability to maintain control over tracker integrity, reporting deadlines, and governance actions. * Outcome-focused and resilient, able to operate in a fast-paced environment where plans evolve and evidence must be updated continually. Education: * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field. * Relevant postgraduate qualification preferred where relevant. Certifications (Preferred): * ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CIPD, PMP, or equivalent professional qualification/certification.   We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY NOTICE (HTTPS://WWW.WPP.COM/EN/CAREERS/WPP-PRIVACY-POLICY-FOR-RECRUITMENT) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW WE PROCESS THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.