AVP - Intercompany Accounting & Reconciliation - CA/CPA - BFS

(Female only)

Key responsibilities

Service Delivery

- Manage end-end of BAU operations for a team size of 15-20 across multiple locations (NCR & Hyderabad) for Intercompany Centre of Excellence which may include Accounting, Invoicing, Age debt management, ICO breaks identification & resolution, Follow ups, Settlements, B/S recons & corresponding reporting.

- Responsible for leading & motivating multiple teams/processes with accountability for Business Service Delivery parameters

- Periodic review of the process controls and establishing corrective actions to mitigate the risk in the process

- Preparation and consolidation of financial / non-financial MI for a highly complex set of businesses

- Ensure adherence to audit and compliance requirements

- Exhibit ownership of the business, understand financial impacts and identify ways to mitigate risks

- Ensure compliance with all relevant internal instructions (FIMs, GSMs, circulars) and external regulatory requirements, including the mgmt. of operational risk and adherence to the Group's standards of ethical behaviour

- Adhere to and be able to demonstrate adherence to internal controls

Skills required

- Very strong Accounting & reporting skills

- Able to provide strategic direction and manage multiple Business Partner relationships

- Proficient analytical review skills; ability to add value to customer deliverables through understanding of the business / lateral thinking

- Pre-empt issues or concerns and flag these off to business partner in a timely manner

- Ability to manage trouble shooting/ secondary reviews and understand all queries raised by business partner and determine escalation as necessary.

- Very strong ability to prepare organizationally and operationally for growth in size of department/responsibilities

- Ability to drive change and strategic initiatives to realise Business Re-engineering

- Lead migrations & remigrations and successfully establish processes at Global Finance centre

- Have an eye to detail to ensure that there is 100% review of all deliverables

- Ensure high quality of output is delivered e.g. financial data in the reports etc. is accurately and correctly presented

Customer/ Stakeholder

- Excellent communication skills to be able to understand and provide satisfactory service delivery to In-Country team.

- Relationship Management with senior managers and at a process level

- Agree on roadmap and plans for reengineering and standardization

- Monitoring Performance

- Hold regular calls with Business partners and eliminate areas of concerns if any

- Pro-active approach to be able to deal with new requirements, ad-hoc requests and unusual variances.

Experience Required

- Chartered Accountant/ CPA, with at least 7-10 years of experience.

- Experience of working with captive BPO preferably in Financial Services Industry in Accounting, reporting verticals & financial control.

- High level understanding of risk & controls / compliance

- Project management / PowerPoint and presentation skills

- Understanding of the applications (Oracle, FTP, HUB, PSGL, CODA Cognos, PeopleSoft, etc.,) used in InterCo. Processes is an add on advantage

- Strong planning and organisation skills

- Strong technical understanding of accounting principles and demonstrated competence in their application

- Ability to understand and implement Group's risk management policy

- Should have demonstrated ability of driving results

- Experience of interacting with external auditors preferred

- Experience of being involved in audit control and compliance reviews/ SOX related reviews preferred

- Experience of working with processes involving US GAAP / IFRS understanding