Key Responsibilities / Role Description
1. Execute and support timely completion of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end accounting close activities for assigned entities, ledgers, business units, or markets.
2. Analyze complex financial transactions and accounting reports, including judgments related to reserves, capitalization of assets, expense recognition, revenue recognition, accruals, and balance sheet movements.
3. Prepare, review, verify, and certify journal entries and accounting records with appropriate backup, coding, approvals, and compliance with US GAAP, IFRS, client policies, and internal controls.
4. Record and validate payroll and P/R related entries, revenue entries, service fee revenue, operational bank entries, tax provisions, accruals, deposits, prepayments, reclasses, personnel reclassifications, intercompany postings, and statistical journals.
5. Prepare balance sheet reconciliations in BlackLine, roll forwards, suspense and clearing account reconciliations, intercompany reconciliations, statutory reconciliations, and ensure timely clearance of reconciling items.
6. Prepare income statement, balance sheet, statutory financial statement schedules, management reporting packs, MAP schedules, BoD financial results, variance commentary, FRG inputs, and other internal reporting deliverables.
7. Support tax and regulatory reporting activities including CIT provisions, tax HFM rollforwards, year-end tax packages, statutory accounts, indirect tax returns such as VAT, WHT, GST and other returns, corporate tax rollforwards, filings, and payment initiation support.
8. Participate in transition activities including knowledge transfer, process walkthroughs, SOP validation, desktop procedure creation, close calendar alignment, reconciliation inventory validation, issue log management, and stabilization actions.
9. Assist with internal audits, external audits, SOX testing, control audits, regulatory reporting, OFAC reporting, and evidence preparation for client or auditor requests.
10. Provide financial reporting and analysis to management, business partners, client controllership, and internal delivery leadership with clear explanations for variances, unusual balances, and process exceptions.
11. Identify process improvement opportunities, recurring defects, manual effort, control gaps, and reporting inefficiencies; support implementation of improvements, new systems, accounting projects, products, or standard changes.
12. Act as an accounting liaison and provide day-to-day guidance or work direction to less experienced accounting staff where required.
