Senior Financial Analyst, FOAA Payroll Accounting team
The successful candidate will ensure that accounting processes are run in a controlled environment, meeting and exceeding our customers’ expectations. The candidate will report into a Senior Manager. This will involve working with our central accounting, finance operation, and Global financial teams to ensure we have a controlled accounting process to do month-end accounting and reporting activities in a manner fitting with our "Customer Obsession", “Deliver Results” and “Insist on Highest Standard” philosophy.
The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for smooth operations of the global accounting team at Bangalore, which includes closing the global books of accounts, posting journal entries, preparing global general ledger account reconciliations, reporting, and having reviews with the leadership team. The person needs to ensure that the finance processes are operating at optimum capacity and partnering with operations and accounting teams to achieve the annual operating plan.
The Finops Accounting team is responsible for preparing, reviewing, and reporting on general ledger account and operational reconciliations. This individual will be responsible for developing and maintaining key financial and operational metrics, analyzing and reporting monthly variance analysis, and providing ad-hoc reporting and analysis. This individual will also establish and embed principles of financial controls by measuring the quality of general ledger account reconciliations, creating dashboards and metrics to measure the quality of processes and controls. This position will also be responsible for hiring and training priorities; ensuring existing policies and procedures are followed.
The successful candidate should have a strong desire to innovate processes and exceed expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, primarily driving innovation on behalf of our customers.
Responsibilities include:
Accounting and Control:
· Own financial reporting and may teach others e.g. own the delivery of complete month-end close of Accounts Payable accounting functions, reporting decks, reconciliations, etc.
· Provide support/direction for process or problem resolution.
· Ensure all processes are operating efficiently and effectively.
· Identify and implement process improvements where required.
· Understand the best practices of the industry and set up benchmarks for quality.
· Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when assigned or required.
· Ensure appropriate financial policies, procedures, and internal controls are in place, documented, and operating as intended.
· Manage department’s response to internal and external audit requirements and ensure compliance with Sox requirements for all geographies/activities.
· Manage complex accounting issues and implement process controls.
· Ability to analyze complex datasets and provide business judgments.
Leadership and Management:
· Stakeholder management and building relationships: Make and keep commitments, seek opportunities to partner with customers, be optimistic, and anticipate needs.
· Protect our brand: Know and live the values.
· Strong systems background.
· Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when assigned or required.
· Ability to work with remote teams in multiple geos.
· Work with cross-functional systems and drive process improvement initiatives.
Minimum Requirements:
- 8+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause, and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
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