Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
As a Junior Accountant at Cover Genius, you will be working amongst a rapidly expanding Global Finance team, based in Sydney, New York, Amsterdam, and our growing shared services center in Bangalore. This role will require you to be a knowledgeable and resourceful member of the Accounting team who supports the day-to-day accounting function across the organization including key financial processes that continually support and enable all areas of the business and its rapid growth. We are looking for a driven, reliable, and self-starting person who works exceptionally well with others and wants to be part of a global insurtech company with the vision to protect all customers of the world s largest digital companies. This role reports into the Associate Finance Director- EMEAI.
Key Responsibilities:
- Play a key support role in the global finance function, including responsibilities for various accounting processes, accounts payable and accounts receivable, cash/treasury management, expense management, compliance, and internal controls.
- Perform month-end close activities such as accruals, bank and credit card reconciliations, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets, and intercompany transactions.
- Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and overall process improvement as we build and scale the global team.
- Support financial statement audits with Big Four auditors, which includes working with accountants in other regions to ensure completeness of supporting workpapers.
- Support in global indirect tax filing preparations.
- Partake in ad hoc accounting or finance projects and analyses.
What you will bring:
- 3-5 years of Accounting experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong ability to quickly identify both risks and opportunities while maintaining a strong focus on both process improvements and results.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Proactive self-starter, resourceful with a strong work ethic.
- Capable of working independently as well as working in a team.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
- Experience with Netsuite.
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
What you will have:
- Thrives on collaboration and operates with a strong internal stakeholder mentality.
- Uncanny organizational skills and the ability and drive to solve complex problems every day.
- Expert multitasker, self-prioritizer, and project manager.
- Strong ability to quickly identify both risks and opportunities while maintaining a strong focus on both process improvements and results.
- Unimpeachable integrity, maturity, strength of character, and professionalism.
- Ability to efficiently and accurately process high transaction volume tasks.
- Able to cope with a dynamic and high change environment.
- Takes ownership for responsibilities with a positive attitude.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
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