Assistant Manager – Finance & Accounting (F&A)

Job Description: Assistant Manager – Finance & Accounting (F&A)

Experience: 8+ Years

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced and results-driven Assistant Manager – Finance & Accounting (F&A) to oversee accounting operations, manage client portfolios, and ensure accurate financial reporting and efficient service delivery. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on accounting expertise, financial analysis capabilities, team leadership, client management, and operational governance experience.

The role involves managing accounting teams, overseeing financial close activities, vendor and tax payments, financial planning and analysis, audit compliance, resource optimization, and process transformation to improve operational efficiency and business performance.

Key Responsibilities

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  Accounting Operations Management: Oversee General Accounting, GL, R2R, AP, AR, and client portfolios to ensure accurate, timely, and efficient financial operations.
  
• General Accounting and Reconciliations: Manage and review invoice booking, journal entries, GL postings, accruals, prepayments, bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets, and intercompany accounting.
  
• Vendor and Tax Payments: Oversee vendor invoice validation, payment processing, approvals, payment reconciliations, tax liability validation, statutory tax payments, and due-date monitoring.
  
• Month-End and Year-End Closing: Manage closing activities, trial balance reviews, account reconciliations, closing adjustments, supporting schedules, and timely financial reporting.
  
• Financial Statement Preparation and Review: Oversee the preparation and analysis of P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with applicable accounting standards.
  
• Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A): Support budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, financial projections, and performance reviews to facilitate business decision-making.
  
• Cash Flow and Working Capital Management: Monitor cash flow, liquidity, receivables, payables, and working capital to support effective financial planning and fund management.
  
• Financial and Variance Analysis: Analyze actual performance against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods; investigate financial variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
  
• Audit Management and SOX Compliance: Coordinate internal and external audits, SOX control testing, audit documentation, remediation of findings, and adherence to internal controls.
  
• Operational Excellence and Process Transformation: Drive process improvement, automation, standardization, and transformation initiatives to improve productivity, accuracy, and service quality.
  
• Client Relationship Management: Manage client relationships, escalations, business reviews, and stakeholder expectations while ensuring high levels of client satisfaction.
  
• Workforce and Capacity Planning: Optimize resource allocation, workforce capacity, team utilization, and productivity to meet business and client requirements.
  
• Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor KPIs, SLAs, productivity, quality, financial performance, and operational risks; prepare management reports, dashboards, and business updates.
  
• Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure adherence to accounting policies, applicable standards, statutory requirements, internal controls, audit requirements, and documentation standards.
  
• Team Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and develop team leads and accounting professionals, strengthen technical capabilities, and support succession planning.
  
• Continuous Improvement and Governance: Maintain SOPs, process documentation, and control frameworks while implementing corrective and preventive actions to improve service delivery and business performance.

Requirements

Required Skills and Competencies

• Strong leadership, team management, client relationship management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  
• Hands-on expertise in General Accounting, GL, R2R, AP, AR, invoice booking, journal entries, and account reconciliations.
  
• Experience in vendor payments, tax payments, statutory compliance, and payment reconciliation.
  
• Strong knowledge of month-end/year-end closing, trial balance review, and financial statement preparation.
  
• Experience in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, working capital, and financial variance analysis.
  
• Experience in internal audits, external audits, SOX compliance, internal controls, and audit remediation.
  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and decision-making skills.
  
• Proficiency in financial reporting, management dashboards, KPI/SLA monitoring, and advanced MS Excel.
  
• Experience in process automation, transformation, workforce planning, resource optimization, and continuous improvement.
  
• Strong communication, presentation, escalation management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Software and Tools

• QuickBooks , Sage Intacct
  
• ERP/accounting systems such as SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite
  
• MS Excel and financial reporting and analytics tools
  
• Process automation and workflow management platforms

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related discipline.
  
• Professional qualification such as CA, CMA, ACCA, or equivalent is an added advantage.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of experience in Finance & Accounting operations.
  
• Hands-on experience in General Accounting, financial close, reconciliations, financial reporting, vendor payments, and tax payments.
  
• Prior experience managing accounting teams, client portfolios, or finance and accounting service delivery.
  
• Experience in a BPM, BPO, shared services, or finance outsourcing environment is preferred.
  
• Demonstrated experience in team leadership, client management, operational governance, audit compliance, and process improvement initiatives.