Financial Accountant
We are seeking a self-driven & result oriented individual who is well-suited to a career in financial accounting and reporting and are detail-oriented, organized, and accurate.
The individual will join our RL Circular Finance team in GCC and will be responsible for providing support in RL Circular’s accounting, financial reporting, and audit matters under Local GAAP & US GAAP and for supporting strong internal control, accuracy, and results in these areas for the entities/businesses responsible for.
This position will be in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad at our India location.
What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?
The Financial Accountant role is instrumental in helping the finance team ensure and maintain accurate accounting data.
Some of the key responsibilities include:
- Supporting the Finance Manager RL Circular Operations and Finance Manager RL Circular, GCC team on accounting, audit, and financial reporting matters in accordance with the Local, US GAAP and other regulatory requirements
- Provide support to the peers and the Managers in delivering the month end/ quarterly close process including the ANZ’s financial statement close process.
- Coordinate with the country accounting teams, plan closing activities and ensure all reporting deadlines are met.
- Support the Manager in preparing the US GAAP deliverables for quarterly and month end reporting.
- Perform BS reconciliations at the first level ensuring that the amounts reported are supported by the underlying documents.
- Maintain Fixed Asset Register for assigned entities.
- Support efforts to improve the close process for RL Circular Australia and New Zealand.
- Understand the base information for preparing BAS, FBT, GST and income tax returns for RL Circular entities.
- Ensure positive engagement with stakeholders internally/ externally and operate as a key team player.
- Engage team members by demonstrating company values and behaviors and ensuring key business messages are cascaded where relevant.
- Collaborate with the team to work on various Transformation/automation projects and ad hoc tasks as they arise.
What are the requirements needed for this position?
Education:
- College degree in accounting, plus Chartered Accountant or equivalent designation required:
- CA /CPA / ACA / ACCA / CIMA
Experience:
- Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in Accounting/Finance role
- Effectively working with teams in different locations mostly in remote environment
Knowledge and Skills:
- Knowledge of accounting principles.
- IFRS knowledge, US GAAP knowledge Preferred.
- Strong audit management experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong skills in Microsoft Office.
- Ability to manage numerous deadlines and prioritize workload accordingly.
- Strong problem-solving skills to analyze the data, search for inconsistencies, reconcile inconsistencies and devise solutions to errors.
What the skills/experience would be helpful to have?
- Big 4 accountancy experience
- Experience with ERP systems (Netsuite, Oracle preferred)
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills