Senior Director, Accounting
Location
Gurgaon | India
Job description
Group Operations Lead - General Accounting
What this job involves: - The person will be responsible for running and managing the Finance & Accounts processes. Should be subject matter expert of Finance & Accounting processes covering all major activities across AP, AR and GA.
- Should have capability and experience in managing large teams. Ensure a highly motivated and performing team
- Experience in managing multiple stakeholders. Ensure staff performance, team building, motivation and development of the team and establish performance expectations and review the performance on a regular basis
- Providing operational excellence to achieve SLA deliverables
- Work collaboratively with business / clients' teams and assume overall responsibility for communication and engagement when transitioning new services and accounts
- Establish deep relationships with key stakeholders, and understand and address process pain points
- Must be able to provide meaningful insights to leaders and stakeholders to ensure informed decisions can be taken by leadership team
- Obtain and maintain deep knowledge of the processes and identify opportunities to drive efficiencies through standardization, continuous improvement, transformation, and bench marking across similar industries.
- Carries a focused approach to process improvements, standardisation, automation etc generating efficiencies. Acquaintance to latest technologies will be an added advantage
- Be an ambassador to drive changes, align closely to Organization goals
- Must be able to drive organization strategy, build a strong structure, manage staffing, improve skills and define style in line with the organization's vision
- Always ensure 100% compliance to internal and external audits and controls
- Provide direction and coaching to the operations team to align to organization goals and deliver on commitments consistently
- Proactively share success stories with the leadership organization
- Inculcate a culture of proactiveness and ownership amongst team to drive BAU operations and change through tactical and strategic improvement initiatives
- Ensure attrition rates are below industry average figures. Ensure active participation in recruitment activities
- Mentor operations team in implementing process improvements
Sounds like you To apply you need to be/have: - University Graduate / Postgraduate in Finance / Accountancy / Commerce, with 15 years of work experience in Finance & Accounting, including 10 years of experience of managing teams
- Proven team leadership and people management skills, ability to handle large and diverse F&A teams)
- Proven client management skills. Ability to build impactful customer relationship and drive collaborative behavior and work across multiple hierarchies across internal and external stakeholders
- Deep understanding of business processes, offshore business environment. Must have had prior experience in transitions
- Must be flexible and able to work under pressure, multitask and effectively prioritize.
- Very strong communication skills and awareness of cross geographical cultures
- Ability to coach, mentor and develop talent. Must also be able to hold difficult conversations, whenever necessary
- Six Sigma Green Belt certified (Preferred)
- Proven ability to identify opportunities and drive improvements to closure. Must be self-driven
- Creative thinking, analytical and an innovative mind-set. Must be solution orientated
- Ability to foresee risks, be proactive and predictive while developing risk mitigation plans
- Keen to apply best practices from previous experience and similar organizations
Performance objectives - Ensure agreed KPIs are met / exceeded each month
- Work within established procedures with a moderate degree of supervision
- Identifies the problem and all relevant issues in straightforward situations, uses analytics and insights as key tools to makes sound decisions/presentations
- Attrition levels at below industry levels
- Succession planning of key resources
- Engage and communicate clearly, confidently and in a concise manner with internal and external stakeholders and see things from their perspective with solution-oriented approach
- Bring a developmental, structured, and organized approach to everything they do
- Thrive under pressure and deal effectively with tight deadlines and high expectations
- Keeps a Stakeholder & process centric approach
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