Accounts Payable Analyst

About Glean:

Founded in 2019, Glean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating seamlessly with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean ensures employees can access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The company’s cutting-edge AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery, making it faster and more efficient for teams to leverage their collective intelligence.

Glean was born from Founder & CEO Arvind Jain’s deep understanding of the challenges employees face in finding and understanding information at work. Seeing firsthand how fragmented knowledge and sprawling SaaS tools made it difficult to stay productive, he set out to build a better way - an AI-powered enterprise search platform that helps people quickly and intuitively access the information they need. Since then, Glean has evolved into the leading Work AI platform, combining enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and powerful application- and agent-building capabilities to fundamentally redefine how employees work.

About the Role:

Glean is seeking an Accounts Payable Analyst who is an experienced individual contributor responsible for handling and executing complex accounts payable processes across the company. This role ensures high standards of accuracy, strong internal controls, and full compliance with company policies and statutory requirements. The AP Analyst will manage escalations, support process improvements and automation initiatives, and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for the Global AP function. This role reports to the Head of Accounting Operations and collaborates closely with Accounting, Finance,Legal, and Business stakeholders to maintain efficient, scalable AP operations.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with hands-on expertise in process development, master data cleanup, and automation.

You will:

• Manage end-to-end processing and review of vendor invoices, ensuring accuracy, appropriate GL coding, and policy compliance—resolving complex or escalated issues independently.
• Lead communication and issue resolution of escalations with vendors and internal teams or sensitive accounts, maintaining strong relationships.
• Review, prepare, and schedule payments, including cross-border and multi-currency transactions, ensuring alignment with contractual terms and optimal cash management practices.
• Ownership AP reconciliations, aged payables analysis, and ensure completeness of accruals during month-end and quarter-end closes.
• Drive implementation and optimization of AP automation tools and workflows—proactively recommending and testing improvements to increase efficiency.
• Ensure perpetual audit readiness by maintaining robust supporting SOP documentation and proactively addressing internal control weaknesses.
• Support external and internal audits by coordinating data requests, process walkthroughs, and remediation of audit findings.
• Act as a go-to resource and mentor for AP best practices and technical queries within the broader team (without direct supervisory responsibilities).
• Maintain current knowledge of regulatory changes, market best practices, and evolving technologies that impact payables operations.
• Manage the Global AP mailbox, ensuring timely resolution of incoming requests
• Ensure compliance with company policies, industry standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure full tax and regulatory compliance in India (GST, TDS, Income Tax) and the US (1099, W-9, sales/use tax)

About you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in accounts payable or general accounting roles, preferably within dynamic and high-growth environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in using ERP/AP systems (such as NetSuite, Bill.com, SAP or comparable platforms) and advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and related reporting tools.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to identify and resolve complex issues with minimal supervision.
• Experience successfully driving or supporting AP process improvements, workflow automation, and system implementations.
• Excellent communication, relationship management, and problem-solving skills; able to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.
• In-depth understanding of internal controls, compliance requirements, and statutory guidelines for accounts payable.
• Strategic thinker with hands-on expertise in process development, master data cleanup, and automation

Location:

• This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our Bangalore office)