Assistant Vice President - Legal Entity Control/Group Financial Reporting - BFSI

Assistant Vice President- Legal Entity Control/ Group Financial Reporting (New GL Programme)

Key responsibilities will include:

- Knowledge of IFRS standards should be able to understand various disclosure and accounting requirements for a diversified financial institution for group consolidated accounts.

- The role requires that the candidate understand the P&L, balance sheet and transactions of several of the Groups businesses.

Knowledge of legal entity control framework:

- The role requires the candidate to understand the current usage of the ledger, its related controls & various downstream processes prepared using ledger information.

- Develop a strong business understanding over time and use it to provide context to accounting and financial matters.

- Prepare/ review of various notes to accounts, disclosures, board papers etc.

- Reviewing and improving processes, controls, and systems that impact the financial information related to consolidated accounts or legal entities.

- Liaise with various teams (Group & LEC) to gather various requirements of the new ledger for submission to development teams.

- Partner with the project team on behalf of function to successfully complete various deliverables under a new ledger program.

- Responsible for design, conversion & UAT testing, an impact assessment on behalf of the function.

- Identify opportunities to automate current process & enhance controls in ledger to avoid manual intervention.

- Share best practices on ledger process followed by the peers in the industry and to include the same at the design stage of the project.

- Manage cross-functional relationships (including senior executive level) across the function, program, and audit (internal & external) and with other members of the project team.

About you:

- You are an experienced person in financial services and exposure to IFRS accounting skills, Strong Consolidation knowledge and experience, strong system skills and ability to understand the structure of a complex ledger.

- Experience and understanding of the diversified financial services and banking/trading business and an exposure to Group Reporting for a listed MNC is an advantage.

- Experience in project management and similar GL upgrade project would be an added advantage.

- Postgraduate accounting qualification, CA or CPA.

- 10+ years of post qualification experience including 5+ years of people management experience.

- Willingness to travel overseas.

- Willingness to work in different time zones to support clients.