Senior General Ledger Accountant

The Senior General Ledger (GL) Accountant will be responsible for completing accurate and timely bookkeeping activities for the company. This will include preparing the financial statements and annual audit for period end close. You will have a significant role in implementing and enforcing internal financial controls.

An essential part of this role is ensuring the financial reports prepared for audit and regulatory purposes meet accounting best practices and regulatory requirements. You will report to the India Hub Lead, work with and provide guidance and support to the GL Accountant in the team.

Role & responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and timely period-end close, including journal entry posting, account reconciliation, and consolidation.
• Review general ledger (GL) and accounts periodically to ensure compliance with internal financial controls.
• Perform GL accounting activities in accordance with accounting principles and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure all R2R controls are followed and properly documented.
• Support regulatory and external audit queries.
• Collaborate with R2R Global Process Owner (GPO) to champion process expertise and drive process improvement.
• Work with the India Hub Lead to execute R2R process strategy.
• Collaborate with Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), and Master Data teams to ensure end-to-end transaction accuracy.
• Liaise with business stakeholders and SSC delivery teams to ensure timely and accurate service delivery.
• Establish credibility and effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and external auditors.
• Ensure compliance with the fiscal close calendar and internal policies.
• Monitor performance targets and escalate issues if not achieved

Preferred candidate profile

• 3 years experience in R2R GL accounting operations.
• Strong English language skills.
• Qualified accountant (AAT/CIMA/ACCA/ACA or global equivalent) or qualified by experience.
• Advanced MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret financial data.
• Strong knowledge of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant SSC operations.
• Working knowledge of core finance systems, ERP and related specialty functional systems, frameworks, and functionality.
• Appropriately applies concepts, methods, and terminology associated with generally accepted accounting practices/operations to new or ambiguous situations.
• Experience performing GL accounting tasks/procedures at a moderately difficult to considerably difficult level.
• Examines issues and makes informed recommendations related to closing cycles.
• Demonstrate logical thought process to simplify complex issues and technical concepts, and to facilitate issue resolution.
• Ability to interact with company stakeholders to ensure a high quality of service, while balancing expectations and realisations.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality of work.

Beneficial to have:

• Experience with MS Dynamics.
• Conversant in other languages besides English.
• Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other business-related discipline.