Financial Reporting Manager

As a Manager - Financial Reporting, you will be responsible for providing proactive and practical accounting guidance to business, finance teams, and senior leadership. Your role will involve leading the interpretation of complex accounting standards such as IFRS and Ind AS, preparing technical memos, and driving the implementation of new accounting standards across the organization. Additionally, you will support M&A transactions, including due diligence, purchase accounting, and integration, while monitoring evolving accounting regulations and assessing their impact on financial reporting. You will also be leading the financial accounting, book closing, and reporting for subsidiaries and consolidation. This includes coordinating with the shared services team, reviewing month-end and year-end closing activities, and managing the end-to-end financial reporting process to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and compliance. Furthermore, you will lead the consolidation of USL group for both Ind AS and IFRS, working closely with statutory and group auditors on end-to-end financial delivery. In terms of statutory audit and board meeting deliverables, you will be responsible for planning and driving statutory audits as per local regulations, coordinating with auditors across various legal entities for annual audits, and facilitating audit readiness and responses to audit observations. You will also work on board deliverables such as Board decks. Partnering with Internal Audit, Governance, and Group teams, you will address control gaps, implement process improvements to strengthen compliance and control frameworks, and enhance and document financial reporting processes. You will lead automation initiatives in reporting, including SAP HANA implementation, while supporting tax and secretarial teams in meeting regulatory and compliance obligations and leading Integrated annual report preparation. The ideal candidate for this role must have a strong command of IFRS and Ind AS with hands-on technical accounting research experience. You should be able to articulate complex accounting matters to non-finance stakeholders and possess excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills. Prior experience in statutory reporting for listed entities and familiarity with SAP ERP systems would be considered advantageous.,