Analyst/Senior Analyst - Finance - Telecom

Job description for Financial Analyst/Senior Analyst

Aim of role :

As an Individual Contributor to provide financial management covering the following responsibilities:-

- Management of results. This includes posting journals, performing reconciliations, first line value add analysis on results.

- Month end close accounting, managing the financial accounts for the business and product area. Also close the quarter and year end accounts.

- Work closely with colleagues in the team in Delhi.

- Role requires strong communication skills as it involves regular interaction with the Senior Finance Team in the onshore.

- Forecasting for the business and product area, including gaining market knowledge, identifying trends in the business, identifying price changes/product launches that will allow forecasting of future results.

- Complying with Sarbox standard results.

- Maintaining adequate backup and support for month end journals and reconciliations.

- Ad-hoc work during the month for specific issues. For example, further detailed and deeper analysis of results, problem identification and resolution. This is a significant part of the role.

- Identifying opportunities to add value to operation. This will include driving efficiencies in the work area to speed up and improve the quality of output, identifying and introducing new quality reports that add benefit to, working with other teams in the area to share knowledge and best practice.

Manage the monthly accounting results of the Business Unit through :

- Ensuring the integrity of the Business Unit's monthly results.

- Ensuring accurate and timely charging of both internal and external charges in order to meet the accounting deadlines and track performance.

- Ensure all trading processes are executed accurately and in a timely manner to facilitate detailed analysis.

- To assist in the validation and processing of journals as required, in an accurate and timely manner to achieve month end close.

- To maintain version control of both the journal upload template, BI JV input files, and the JV log output file.

- Manage the provision of a meaningful and timely first level analysis of daily results to help explain Business Unit financial performance and assist in subsequent identification of root cause and recommend solutions.

- Manage the provision of accurate, timely, fit for purpose information on all aspects of Business Unit financial performance through production of regular monthly customer specified reports.

- Role will involve taking part in the wider management team to train sand coach other individuals and ensure that the overall quality of work and output levels for the team improve over time.

Skills needed :

- Post Graduate in Commerce / Professional Qualification (CA/CS/CWA/ MBA)

- Preferably 6+years relevant experience with a MNC, captive units, in dealing with financial results, including posting journals and reconciliations, and hoc work.

- Interpersonal skills to be able to work within a larger team.

- Straightforward, trustworthy.

- Able to work independently to resolve issues.

- Ability to work accurately to tight timeframes.

- Able to identify improvement opportunities and introduce these into the immediate work area and also across the wider team.