EY GDS - Manager - GL Corporate Finance - CA

Manager- GL

This position is part of GDS India Finance Team and reports to the Associate Director - Finance. This position serves a critical finance role in consolidating the controlling activities of select Entities.

The opportunity

The primary responsibility will be overseeing the month-end close, accruals, Audits, intercompany reconciliations, consolidation, Schedules and related reporting requirement for US, UK entities. You will work closely with other members of the Finance and accounting teams (India and Overseas), and provides accurate and timely information for month-end close. You will also be responsible to liaise and drive the month-end closure by interacting with various stakeholders (India and Overseas) to provide timely and qualitative inputs

Your key responsibilities

- Plan month-end/year- end accounts close

- Drive quality month-end accounting closure process with agreed timelines

- Ensure all the sub-functions of finance are engaged collaboratively to ensure accounts are maintained current and clean.

- Prepare and review monthly and annual financials as per financial reporting standards and ensure reporting within due timelines

- Interact with other finance stakeholders to ensure smooth closings and reportings

- Plan year end close, Liaise and agree Board meeting dates, audit sign-off dates and provide detailed checklist to finance/other teams

- Preparation and review of statutory accounts as per the local financial reporting standards and getting them audited from statutory auditors

- Preparation and reporting of annual financials as per IFRS to central entities and interacting with Groups finance controllers for consolidation purposes

- Ensure timely compliances of applicable statutes

- Identify areas for process improvements/automations and implementation

- Timely reconciliation of intercompany balances and sign offs

Skills and attributes for success

- Deep understanding of IndAS, IGAAP and working knowledge of IFRS including new announcements and changes

- Ability to understand and work with complex structures and business models

- Working in multinational environment with different time zones

- High accuracy and on time delivery

- Succinct and structured oral and written communications skills

To qualify for the role, you must have

- Chartered Accountant with 7-10 years of experience

- Strong General ledger accounting skills

- Practical knowledge of IndAS, IGAAP and IFRS required

- Understanding of the Accounting and MIS Systems

- Working knowledge of SAP

- Expertise in MS Excel, PowerPoint and handling large amount of data sets and tasks

Ideally, you'll also have

- An eye for efficiency and process improvements

- Planning skills and ability to prioritize the workload

- Interpersonal skills

- Attention to details and sense of ownership

- Ability to stretch in the busy period for high quality and on time delivery

What we look for

- Working in a team of experts with deep domain knowledge

- Opportunity to work in fast paced multinational environment

- Positive attitude and dependable team player