Finance Manager - IT Service - CA

Job Description

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented General Accounting Manager to lead the global accounting function for our 13+ entities spread across the US, UK, Europe, and India. This role is critical in ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting across multiple jurisdictions. The ideal candidate will be a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) with hands-on experience in finalizing global accounts, managing accruals, configuring ERP systems for multi-dimensional reporting, and applying transfer pricing principles in a global services context to optimize profitability and taxation.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Global Financial Close & Reporting:

- Own and drive the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process across 13+ global entities

- Finalize statutory and management accounts in compliance with local and group GAAPs (India, US GAAP, IFRS, etc.)

- Conduct daily, weekly, and monthly reviews of financial statements to ensure accuracy and completeness

- Ensure accurate and timely reporting of financials at the legal entity level, with granularity for location and service line segmentation

Managerial reporting:

- P&L by Location broken out by line of service

- P&L by Line of Service broken out by location

- Any additional MIS reports as required by management

- Ensuring that the chart of accounts is responsive to the Companys reporting needs

- Maintain consistency in reporting structures across global entities

2. Accruals & Expense Management:

- Ensure proper accruals are booked for all cost items and reversed accurately in subsequent periods

- Review expense trends, prepaid amortizations, and reclass entries to ensure accurate period reporting

- Collaborate with FP&A and/or operational teams to validate completeness of accruals

- Calculation and accrual of sales commissions each month

3. ERP Configuration & Chart of Accounts:

- Configure and maintain the chart of accounts to support the evolving legal, geographic, and business-level reporting

- Lead efforts to harmonize global accounting practices through system configuration

4. Transfer Pricing & Intercompany:

- Ensure adherence to transfer pricing regulations, including documentation, invoicing, and margin monitoring

- Collaborate with tax and legal teams to maintain compliant intercompany arrangements

- Support global audits and tax filings related to intercompany transactions

- Manage and optimize intercompany transactions

5. Forecasting and Costing

- Supervise the preparation of a 13-week direct cash flow statement with inputs from the AR and AP teams

- Highlight cash surpluses and shortfalls for management actions

- Prepare a weekly estimate of current month profitability

- Prepare a 12-month forecast of profitability synchronized with the month end reporting

6. Audits and Compliances

- Ensure timely completion of all audits/reviews/compilations at individual entity level as required

- Ensure timely completion of the global consolidated audit

- Be the primary point of contact for audit and accounting firms for above purposes

- Implement and maintain strong internal controls across the accounting function

7. Taxes and other Regulatory filings

- Provide assistance to the company professionals in the timely preparation and filing of tax returns

- Ensure timely filing and adherence to matters of regulatory compliance including GST and VAT refunds

- Prepare all the necessary inputs for the filing of subsidies and other tax incentives available to the company in other jurisdictions

The Candidate:

- Proven track record in finalization of accounts, multi-entity reporting, and ERP configuration

- Strong understanding of transfer pricing regulations and intercompany accounting

- In-depth knowledge of GAAP/IFRS and local compliance across multiple jurisdictions

- Experience with ERPs such as SAGE, Quickbooks or similar systems

- High attention to detail, analytical mindset, and excellent organizational skills

- Strong analytical, process-oriented, and communication skills

- Excellent English verbal and written skills and ability to communicate effectively with North American and European stakeholders across functions

- Familiarity with MS Excel. Advanced skills with Excel shortcuts preferred