Associate Director - GL Accounting/RTR - Big4 - CA/ICWA

One of the Big 4 company is seeking applications for the position of an Associate Director for theirReconciliations Platform, from candidates with 10-15 years of relevant experience.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following aspects:

- Product functional champion with experience in selling products

- SME for Reconciliations relating to Finance & Business operations

- Pre-Sales/Solutioning conversation at the demo stage

- Support in sales closure

- Product implementation with functional coverage to deployment team

The candidate should have experience in Finance Operations & Transformation experience with a focus on record to report and the following illustrative reconciliations:

- GL

- Bank / Vendor / Customer reconciliation

- Inter-company

- Balance Sheet

- Reconciliation between applications or database etc.

Key Responsibilities:

- Functional Product ownership - understanding of platform end to end and usage in various client situations

- Lead the product solutioning conversations with client - including PoCs, Process maps, demonstrate use-cases and create proposals with to-be

- Understand the landscape of reconciliations products with insights on industry solutions, new development and product roadmap

- Provide functional inputs to product team to arrive at implementation effort and pricing

- Lead the functional deployment of reconciliation platform from a use case build point of view for a specific client

- Lead Process Discovery or diagnostic if needed with a client

- Get involved in the product testing and deployment based on client need

- Lead the product functional module build up for various use-cases

Key Skills :

- Finance Operations and Transformation experience in GL, Record to Report, Reconciliations

- Experience working with Reconciliation platforms like Blackline, Cadency etc

- Hands on experience on doing reconciliation to understand the stakeholder persona

- Process mapping, BRD creation experience to aid in writing the use case

- Solutioning mindset which involves fitment of a product in different client situations

- Excellent Communication skills

- Technical skills - Product understanding, ERP understanding etc.

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Ability to manage and lead a team effectively

Key Qualifications & Experience :

- Bachelor or Master degree - CA/ICWA/MBA Finance

- 10-15 Years in Finance Domain - Finance operations including Record to Report and GL

- Finance Transformation Experience with Shared Services, BPOs, Big4, IT/BPM Companies

Mandatory Skills : Financial Transformation