Skill required:
Record To Report - Balance Sheet Account Reconciliations
Designation:
Service Delivery Operations Senior Analyst
Qualifications:
BCom
Years of Experience:
5 to 8 years
About Accenture
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What would you do?
You will be aligned with our Finance Operations vertical and will be helping us in determining financial outcomes by collecting operational data/reports, whilst conducting analysis and reconciling transactions.Posting journal entries, preparing balance sheet reconciliations, reviewing entries and reconciliations, preparing cash forecasting statement, supporting month end closing, preparing reports and supports in audits.Involves balancing all balance sheet accounts against sub-ledger or other non-general ledger based source data to verify whether the balance sheet accounts are in balance with the source system feeding the general ledger. Differences which arise are addressed as reconciling items.
- Knowledgeable and responsive to the client’s needs and wants and managing client expectations when necessary.
- Requires professional interaction and communication, both within the Accenture organization and with client contacts. May be called upon to represent financial accounting matters on behalf of the client to internal and external auditors, and to other third parties. Key interactions typically involve:
- Client operations
- Other key client contacts (e.g. tax)
- Government and regulatory agencies
- Other functional groups within Accenture engagement.
- Highly self-motivated to work independently, within delegated authority, with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrates the ability to work as part of a team, and a clear understanding of how assigned responsibilities impact other processes and the work of other people. Adaptable to learn new processes, concepts, and skills.
- Assigned and accountable for specific areas of responsibility/deliverables.
- May prioritize and oversee activities of others to meet deadlines and quality standards.
- Performs a range of tasks from complex to straightforward within the scope of the function.
- Assists in the identification, assessment and resolution of complex issues/problems.
- Required to assess and resolve non-standard/standard issues/problems largely on own initiative.
- Decides within an available range of solutions/practices, which are the most applicable. What are we looking for?
- Makes decisions within parameters set by manager, using job/specialist experience.
- Seeks advice and escalates issues when faced with tasks/problems outside normal scope of job.
- Subject to general direction and guidance from manager as appropriate.
- Interacts with client/users around specific work efforts/deliverables.
- As appropriate may directly supervise or co-ordinate the work of others in a discrete section/small team.
- Coaches inexperienced team members and provides first level advice on procedures/work methods, for those who may be at the same level.
- Thorough working knowledge of one functional area through significant job experience and training. Sufficient experience or specialized knowledge to allow application/modification of existing methods and systems on own initiative in line with business context.
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Previous experience in organizing and prioritizing personal workload.
- Ability to work with more analytical, less structured processes
- Ability to multi-task
- Ideally progressing towards a suitable accounting qualification
- Attention to detail, problem solving and good communication skills
- Analyze transactions, identify unusual transactions, trends, & variations
- Explain variances
- Proactively identifies problems and solutions with minimal direction
- Ability to work on own initiative within a controlled environment
- Ability to meet deadlines Roles and Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities/Authorities
- Responsible for financial accounting and reporting that has a material impact on key components of the client’s financial statements.
- Responsible for the preparation, coordination and review of financial accounting analyses and journal entries to properly recognize actual results for material components of the client’s operations.
- May be required to prepare a wide range of financial reporting applicable to scope of the assigned responsibilities.
- Analyzes transactions, understands and explains variances, and proactively identifies potential problems and solutions.
- Ability to recognize unusual transactions, trends, or variations and communicate findings to supervisor or manager.
- Ability to manage/monitor accounting close responsibilities
- Initiates and facilitates the sharing of process knowledge and best practices within the team and across the engagement, and is capable of impacting and influencing others.
- Develops and maintains documentation on projects and team assignments.
- Identifies, recommends and implements process improvements in procedures of team assignments, BCom
