Senior Accountant

Role Overview

Accounting and Financial Reporting

• Manage daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close activities.
• Review journal entries, accruals, provisions, reclassifications, close checklists, ledger balances, and significant financial statement accounts.
• Prepare and review financial statements, management reports, reporting packages, account analyses, schedules, and management presentations.
• Apply Indian GAAP, Accounting Standards, Ind AS, US GAAP, company policies, and internal procedures.
• Review balance sheet, profit and loss, and cash-flow movements and explain significant variances.

Reconciliations and Controls

• Ensure balance sheet and key account reconciliations are prepared and reviewed within agreed timelines.
• Investigate aged, unusual, inconsistent, unresolved, or high-risk reconciliation items and escalate significant discrepancies.
• Execute, supervise, and review ledger-level SOX and other financial reporting controls.
• Maintain complete control documentation and support SOX testing by internal audit, external audit, and assurance teams.
• Ensure compliance with segregation of duties, delegation of authority, and system-access controls.

Tax and Audit Compliance

• Manage ledger-level direct tax accounting, compliance, reporting, tax provisions, tax-deduction-at-source requirements, and Income Tax Act reconciliations.
• Provide transfer-pricing documentation, tax audit support, related-party transaction reporting, and tax-balance reconciliations where applicable.
• Manage GST and other indirect tax compliance, including returns, reconciliations, payments, input-tax-credit documentation, audits, and notices.
• Support statutory, internal, tax, and external auditors with schedules, documentation, query responses, and audit-observation closure.
• Support statutory financial statement preparation and legal-entity reporting.

ERP and Process Management

• Use SAP or Oracle ERP systems for accounting, reporting, reconciliations, and control activities.
• Review system-generated reports and validate the completeness and accuracy of financial data.
• Support ERP enhancements, testing, implementation, process standardization, and automation initiatives.
• Maintain accounting master data, cost centres, profit centres, chart of accounts, and reporting structures.
• Collaborate with Information Technology and Finance Systems teams to resolve system and interface issues.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Commerce, M.Com., or M.B.A. in Finance.
• Semi-qualified CA or CMA Intermediate passed.
• At least 10 years of relevant or progressive experience in accounting, finance, taxation, financial reporting, and internal controls.
• Strong general ledger, closing, taxation, SOX, internal controls, audit, ERP, and Microsoft Office experience.

Preferred Profile

• Experience in a multinational company, listed company, large corporate group, or global finance environment is preferred.
• Shared Services or global accounting experience is advantageous.
• Experience managing multiple legal entities or ledgers is beneficial.
• Exposure to financial automation, reporting tools, or process-transformation projects is advantageous.

Company and Team