AKQA - Senior Management Accountant

We are hiring Senior Management Accountant @ AKQA

Purpose of role:

- The Senior Management Accountant is responsible for completeness and accuracy of finance & accounts including compliance & audit related work for AKQA India studio. As a business partnering role this position requires strong technical abilities and operational awareness.

- This role also requires a high level of flexibility for taking on other tasks and a willingness to get involved in varied day-to-day issues as they arise.

Key responsibilities:

- Submit all WPP group reporting submissions using ERP software (SAP BFC/Cartesis) and meet deadlines.

- Preparation of the monthly Flash Income Statement and Balance Sheet including commentary on all material variances.

- Oversee inter-company reconciliations with International offices, as well as requesting IC invoices to be raised (35 plus IC counterparties)

- Perform bank reconciliations in multiple currencies.

- Perform reconciliations from the general ledger to the management accounts.

- Assist with the budget and quarterly forecasts and help input into SAP BFC.

- Assist with the preparation of the Statutory Annual Accounts.

- Be a point of contact during internal and external audits.

- Maintenance of GL codes and BFC mapping.

- Approve coding for all invoices.

- Set up and maintain new Beneficiaries in our Finance System (MAS/Sage500).

- Ad hoc duties as required.

- Shift Timings: 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM Shift, while reporting & month end might have to stretch timings.

Skills and experience required:

- Strong bookkeeping knowledge

- Experience of having worked for a medium/large size entity and comfortable with handling large volumes of data

- Experience of having worked in a strong controls' environment is desirable

- Strong excel skills required

- Experience of Sage 500 and BFC/Cartesis, preferable but not essential

- Professional excellence: advanced written and verbal communication skills; strong attention to detail; high level of numeracy and accuracy.

- Proven planning and organization skills, able to prioritize high volume workload and multitask as required.

- Teamwork: proactively provide assistance to teammates outside of regular day-to-day responsibilities.

- Time management: ability to assess, evaluate and prioritize tasks to ensure completion within given time frames.

- Presentation skills - ability to contribute to and deliver considered concise and relevant presentations to colleagues and clients.

- Complex data problem solving - simplification of complex problems into more basic elements, and resolution thereof; irregular problems; large data-sets; use of advanced data analysis techniques.