Financial Consulting Associate - Finance as a Service

• CA or accounting graduate/postgraduate with 2-5 years of Record to report experience.

Responsibilities:
This is a hands-on position that requires transaction processing and account reconciliation skills. Duties include:

• Review monthly journal entries prepared by support staff for prepaid expenses, fixed asset, accrued expenses, payroll, and or inventory transactions, as applicable, in an accurate and timely manner
• Understands the purpose of reconciliations. Approves bank reconciliations and general ledger account reconciliations
• Prepare/Review clients monthly financial statements including month over month variance analysis and or actual to budget analysis
• Analyze and interpret financial information for client management and provide actionable insight and decision support
• Continuously identify opportunities to enhance the clients monthly operations make suggestions for process improvements
• Define and document repeatable methodologies with appropriate tools and templates that can be leveraged for future projects.
• Understand our technology stack and identify additional add-on processes, systems, modules and integrations that can drive month end close efficiencies.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor's in accounting or finance is required
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are a must (proactively communicates status, issues, conflicts, and priorities up, down and across the engagement team)
• Ability to balance multiple responsibilities simultaneously plus excellent analytical and decision making skills
• Experience in a public accounting firm, consulting firm or other professional services environment preferred but not required
• Proficiency utilizing Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
• Strong organizational skills along with the ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to adapt to change effectively
• Experience with automated accounting systems (i.e. Intacct, NetSuite, Bill.com, Tallie)
• Blackline experience preferred
• Knowledge and understanding of GAAP
• Pursuing CPA or a CPA is preferred but not required