Senior Associate/Team Lead - Financial Analysis & Reporting - IT

Job Title: India IT Controller India 

job title: Senior Associate Finance /Assistant Manager - Financial Analysis & Reporting

Job Summary:

This role is expected to perform in the area of finance with heavy emphasis on Financial Analysis & Reporting. The selected candidate has to work closely with senior Finance & Functional leadership teams and have to liaise with them to prepare, extract, analyse and report on relevant financial data.

The ideal candidate should be a go getter, highly analytical, technically competent with Accounting Concepts & Principles, should be a good team player and possess excellent interpersonal & inter-departmental communication skills and ability to multitask in a fast paced, dynamic environment. The candidate will also need to work on global numbers & must be prepared to work across different time zones & to adhere to strict timelines.

Responsibilities:

- Collate/analyse information on operational data and related financial data

- Prepare monthly/quarterly financial analysis, variance analysis and management reports

- Monthly/quarterly closing of books of accounts, preparation of Annual Statutory Financial Statements for audit

- Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts.

- Balance sheet recs review, accruals & provisions, prepayment, capex/opex management, posting JV's etc

- Prepare other financial reports, trackers, monitoring reports, etc, as required for regional & global analytical purposes. Reporting will be both regular and ad-hoc.

- Billing for the services provided across the globe and ensuring no revenue leakages in the system

- Managing the intercompany transactions and ensuring timely resolution of intercompany differences

- Reconcile & monitor major project streams on revenue and cost take-ups against project plans.

- Reconcile & monitor capital expenditure and major operating spends against budgets and forecasts

- Provide support in relation to financial and improvement projects

- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned by Management.

- Manage the provision of accurate, timely, fit for purpose information on all aspect of business unit financial performance through production of regular monthly customer-specific reports

Abilities:

- Strong eye on numbers, meticulous analysis of periodical financials on regular basis and ability to drill down into numbers for possible reasons for variation.

- Excellent communications skills and ability to work with people across all levels to ensure quality delivery.

- Ability to gain a strong understanding of the business and operations and see the bigger picture

- An proactive independent worker and analytical thinker with ability to conduct research, data analysis and resolve complex problems

- Ability to prioritise, organise & multi task across competing demands

- Ability to work in a challenging fast paced environment with tight deadlines

- Ability to work accurately to tight time frame

Experience Guidelines:

- 5-10 years of post-qualification experience in to core Accounting, budget, forecasting, month end closure, annual closure, variance analysis, stakeholder management, GL management

- Fair understanding of IFRS/USGAAP

- Must be numerically accurate with a - good eye for detail-, thorough, organized and consistent.

- Ability to apply logical approach while looking at each and every transaction.

- Candidate should have high level of commitment & initiative and should be computer savvy.

- Perform all tasks as per agreed standards and timelines.

- Exposure to ERP/Oracle is desirable.

- Strong working knowledge of Excel

- Experience in analysis of data and reporting compilation is desirable

Educational Qualifications

- CA (Inter) / MBA finance/ CWA/CMA or any other equivalent Certified Accounting Qualification is a must.