- Responsible for managing legal entities accounting operation evidencing, and complying to key accounting controls
- Management of month, quarter, and year-end close timetable, ensuring bottlenecks are resolved and escalating issues as appropriate. Executing the consolidation and closing of the books
- Thorough review of trial balance, detailed revenue, cost of revenue, operating expense and balance sheet variance and trend analysis
- Responsible for the accounting for complex transactions, directing the functional work of team members as appropriate. Identify and correct any accounting issues as they occur
- Review/Approve and/or prepare complex manual journal entries required to complete month-end and annual accounts and to ensure the accuracy and timely posting of entries from sub-ledgers and other entry sources.
- Produce and present monthly legal entity reporting packs providing Balance Sheet and P&L analysis and supporting commentary.
- Provide accurate financial accounting information and analysis to other interested parties including decision support, tax, controllership and senior management.
- Perform Indirect Tax calculations, review and submission of tax returns. Perform balance sheet tax reconciliation
- Liaising with onshore partners and providing complete visibility of the month end tasks at regular intervals during close periods to all stakeholders
- Lead role in managing external audit and financial statement filings and other compliance deliverables.
- Prepare, update accurate process documentation, including standard operating procedures and send for review. Adhering to KPIs and performance against SLAs
Knowledge, Skills, Experience, Training, Education:
- Qualified accountant degree with 6 to 8 years of experience in Corporate sector preferably in Manufacturing/ Hotel/ Aviation industry exposure
- Experience of working in a General Ledger environment, having the exposure of managing team in complex and multi currency entities and environment
- Advanced Microsoft Excel is essential, Oracle and Trintech Cadency would be an advantage
- Key Measures:
- Demonstration of detailed understanding of period to period movements in P&L and balance sheet
- Timeliness, completeness and accuracy of accounting entries, journal, and balance sheet reconciliations, timely period-end close.
- Adhering the transactional integrity and revenue recognition
- Adherence to SLA/ KPIs
- Completeness of annual cycle of Cadency reconciliation reviews, and quality of reviews undertaken
Key Skills:
a) Experience of Indirect Tax workings and reconciliations
b) Experience of working in a General Ledger environment
c) CA Qualified
