Assistant Manager - Financial Reporting & Control

Key responsibilities:

Drive finance projects including backlog clearance, process improvements, best practice adoption & system implementation / tech adoption across Creative Service Line (CSL) entities in the US. Track the progress on backlogs and publish the status periodically.

Review Balance Sheet reconciliations, risk analysis and work with the teams to develop & implement appropriate controls

Support during Internal audit, local stat audit & year end group audit process.

Work with CSL Controller/Assistant Controller on ad hoc tasks and deliverables on financial control & compliance areas. Flag issues and help in clearing any bottlenecks/ issues identified as a part of projects.

Review & assess impact of any policy changes, group/regional reporting requirements, processes re alignment & changes in internal control framework. Ensure the impact and change is understood, discussed with CSL FC on a timely manner.

Work on any changes or remediation projects like JSOX controls implementation, annual controls self-certification process or Group’s Internal Control Framework implementation

Lead reconciliation between project management system (Nexelus) and ERP (Dynamics D365) and work with Nexelus team and other relevant teams to eliminate differences and establish processes so that they are not recurring again

Coordinate with “In Market Finance Teams” (IMFT), Regional team, Commercial finance, Operational finance team (3rd party service provider) and CCoE team in driving these projects.

Professional Skills

Qualified Chartered Accountant with 7+ years of post-qualification experience in Accounting, Controllership, Financial reporting and Consolidation

Proficient in technical accounting and IFRS. Knowledge of US GAAP would be preferable

Advanced user of Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint.

Knowledge of SAP BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation), Microsoft Dynamics D365 and Blackline tools will be an added advantage.