Location
Secunderabad | India
Job description
SUMMARY
The Senior Accountant will assist with consolidated accounting and will be instrumental in the financial close process. This includes, recording transactions, preparing G/L accountant reconciliations. As a member of the accounting organization you will have the opportunity to work on specialized projects within various business units.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage the month end general ledger financial close cycle and assigned functional accounting processes.
- Ensure all general ledger accounts are reconciled to supporting detail on a monthly or quarterly basis and reconciling items cleared on a timely basis for assigned operations and functional accounting processes.
- Maintain sufficient documentation that all transactions are recorded and supported in the general ledger and appropriate sub-ledgers on a periodic basis maintain checklists to ensure all scheduled entries are accounted for during the close process for assigned operations and assigned functional accounting processes.
- Communicate with multiple levels in the organization both India and US as required.
- Review account balances, transactions and reconciliations and ensure account analysis is performed to understand significant accounts and ensure accounting in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Prepare quarterly and yearly audit schedules. Participate with Operational and Finance groups to implement and maintain best practice accounting processes.
- Identify, assess, and optimize/improve accounting processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Implement and leverage advanced technologies for process automation and reduce manual tasks.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 6 years of accounting experience
- Chartered Accountant or MBA in finance
- Strong skills with Microsoft Excel (Advanced)
- Should be able to work US hours to support US close.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES
- Excellent oral and written communications skills. Need to be articulate and fluently communicate with US employees.
- Excellent problem-solving skills utilizing available resources.
- Ability to identify, qualify and prioritize activities.
- Ability to work well with individuals at all levels, inside and outside the organization.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand walk sit use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls reach with hands and arms climb stairs talk or hear. The employee must have the ability to operate a personal computer and express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. May be required to sit and/or stand for long periods of time. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. May be required to lift or move 10+ pounds.
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