Support the Senior Manager and Financial Controller in delivering high-quality Global Practices Record-to-Report (R2R) operations, ensuring accurate financial reporting, strong balance sheet governance, effective stakeholder management and continuous process improvement.
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities :
- Lead and oversee end-to-end Record-to-Report (R2R) operations for Global Practices, ensuring timely and accurate execution of month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities.
- Manage a team responsible for accrual accounting, prepayments, intercompany accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, BlackLine certifications, management reporting and period-end submissions.
- Review and approve key R2R deliverables including journal entries, reconciliations, accrual analysis, balance sheet commentaries, reporting packs and BPC submissions prior to stakeholder sign-off.
- Drive timely resolution of balance sheet aged items, intercompany mismatches, accrual ageing issues and reporting exceptions through effective stakeholder engagement.
- Support Forecast, Budget and MFF cycles by overseeing data accuracy, preparing reporting inputs, analysing variances and coordinating submissions through planning systems.
- Establish and monitor operational KPIs, service levels and quality standards across the R2R team to ensure consistent delivery excellence.
- Manage team capacity, workload planning and performance management while providing coaching and technical guidance to team members.
- Partner with Financial Controllers, Finance Business Partners, Shared Services and other stakeholders to improve process effectiveness and enhance reporting quality.
- Drive continuous improvement, automation and standardisation initiatives across R2R processes leveraging D365, BlackLine, BPC and SAC platforms.
- Coordinate and support internal and external audit requirements by ensuring timely delivery of schedules, reconciliations, documentation and management responses.
Professional Qualification And Experience
- Qualified Chartered Accountant with 7+ years of post-qualification experience
- Proficient in IFRS and other technical accounting.
- Strong experience in Record-to-Report (R2R), Financial Close, Financial Reporting, Balance Sheet Governance and Revenue/Accrual Accounting.
- Hands-on experience managing month-end close, intercompany accounting, reconciliations, reporting and planning cycles.
- Experience reviewing BlackLine reconciliations, BPC/SAC submissions and supporting audit requirements.
- Strong knowledge of D365, SAP BPC, SAC and BlackLine platforms preferred.
- Proven people leadership experience including coaching, performance management, workload management and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience driving process standardisation, automation and continuous improvement initiatives including AI / RPA within global finance operations would be a plus.
Key personal attributes
- Effective communication, influencing, collaboration and relationship building skills across global cultures
- An agile mindset, with the confidence to operate and solve problems in a complex corporate environment
- Personal confidence to operate alongside senior management on a day-to-day basis
- An initiative-taker, with the ability to drive a clear direction with minimal supervision
- Desire to work in a value driven environment, embracing the dentsu values.
Location:
Bangalore
Brand:
Bcoe
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent
