Manager - Head Office Accounting - BFSI

Main Purpose of Role:

Responsible for supporting the Regional GL close activities involving working closely with various business/ function teams across the region, supporting the month-end and quarter-end reporting requirements, providing suggestions for improvement and effective risk management with the objective of enhancing controls and compliance processes of the company

Main Responsibilities

- Performing the accounting, reporting, planning and analysis of regional HQ entities

- Support the finalization of year-end financials including compliance & filing of year-end accounts as per IFRS

- Support the ad-hoc activities of the regional HQ entities

- Liaise with the business teams to support various central accounting, charge-outs, reporting & control requirements

- Support the monthly and quarterly group reporting requirements

- Support in review of business processes and identification of areas of improvement to enhance the control environment

- Support the key regional initiatives

- Work on continuous improvement of the processes

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Formal education: Degree Level desirable

Technical education: Full accounting qualification (first time passes)

- Hands-on experience of closing the books of accounts and finalizing the financial statements

- Experience of working on IFRS requirements

- Experience of working with senior management

- Working under stringent reporting deadlines

- Knowledge of corporate governance norms and trends/ risk management issues

- Proficiency in MS Excel, Word and Power-point

- Analytical skills

Personal qualities:

- Strong, confident and with good communication skills being capable of building strong relations with the regional teams to be able to succeed

- Effective at building good relationships and demonstrates strong influencing abilities

- Curiosity and ability to step back to see the big picture and then deep dive into the detail to understand the reasons

- Self-motivated person who enjoys working with detail and possesses strong numerical skills.

- Manages by improving processes and systems

- Possess strong verbal and written English communication skills.

- Strong analytical skills

- Resilient and works well under pressure

- Possesses good conflict resolution abilities.

- Integrity and a strong work ethic

- Collaborative approach