Senior Executive/Specialist Accounts & Finance

Role: Senior Executive/Specialist Accounts & Finance

Location: Trivandrum, Kerala

Experience: 2 - 6 Years

Skills: Audting, Financial Control, Internal / External Audit

Qualification: B.com/MBA Finance/ CA inter/ CMA Inter/ ACCA part qualified

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Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of end-to-end finance business process documentation, identifying and documenting new and existing finance controls, ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal standards.
• Develop control test scripts and assist in the execution of control testing procedures, documenting results, and identifying areas for improvement.
• Ensure control design weaknesses and/or failed tests of operating effectiveness are identified and remediation action plans are agreed with the business control owners
• Support efforts to streamline and automate financial controls to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure finance process and control documentation is up-to-date, including tracking changes and updates.
• Provide support in user training and troubleshooting as needed.
• Provide assistance in preparing documentation and responding to requests from external auditors
• Assist in the preparation and review of financial statements, ensuring compliance with established accounting standards and accuracy of reported data.
• Participate in initiatives to improve the financial controls framework, incorporating feedback and new best practices.
• Support the identification and resolution of discrepancies in financial statements, working under the guidance of senior team members.

Experience

• 2 5 years experience of working either within a finance and/or financial controls team or within external or internal audit.
• Testing the control systems functions in the accounting department
• Experience of analyzing, documenting and managing financial processes and controls within a finance function e.g. OTC, PTP and Treasury
• Testing the effectiveness of control system functions in the accounting department
• Able to challenge the status quo and improve the control environment through stronger and/or more effective controls, finance process improvement, including automation, rationalization and designing new or changes to existing processes and controls
• Insurance experience beneficial but not mandatory
• Achieving challenging targets and KPIs in a high-pressure environment
• Knowledge of risk and controls workflow tools/systems beneficial
• Finance systems knowledge and/or knowledge of how non finance systems interface with finance systems
• SOX or knowledge of other financial controls frameworks would be beneficial