Accounting Manager - ATR (US Shift)

Overview

Accounting Manager for the ATR (Accounts, Treasury and Reporting) organisation at APM Terminals, independently handling the finance and accounting of a country cluster and managing a team to deliver day-to-day accounting and ensure a true and fair view of published financials.

What you'll do

• Take end-to-end responsibility for daily accounting, book close and reporting.
• Act as right hand to the Terminal HoF, supporting strategies, adding value and maintaining a close relationship with the Terminal HoF.
• Improve short- and long-term performance through relevant, accurate and timely reporting, analysis and decision support.
• Continuously review KPIs and monitor daily accounting and book-close activities.
• Extensively review all financial reporting to the Business Unit and explain major variances and one-off transactions.
• Implement standardization of ATR processes across entities/Terminals.
• Work with the business to identify opportunities to improve processes and reduce waste.
• Represent the Terminal/entity in all forums with Terminal HoFs and Regional HoF as relevant.
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly book close and reporting.
• Review and submit balance sheet reconciliations in a timely manner, following the balance sheet recon framework in the Blackline tool; drive closure of long-pending open items and identify potential financial exposure.
• Maintain certification in OneStream, and handle financial and non-financial reporting.
• Be responsible for ROFO and target reporting and review variances.
• Lead and support statutory reporting for the entity location.
• Support Terminal entity locations in handover processes connected to the ATR finance area.
• Support and lead ATR Accountants to ensure quality in accounting delivery.
• Ensure process compliance through regular Gemba walks and process confirmations; identify process gaps and support bridging deviations to standard.
• Document and obtain sign-off for any exceptions to standard processes.
• Track ATR KPIs measuring the success of process outcomes.
• Develop clear action plans and work closely with ATR Process Leads to improve operational metrics.
• Ensure effective internal finance controls, baseline controls and governance for day-to-day accounting carried out by the team.
• Work cross-functionally with stakeholders in GSC, locally and globally to maintain and improve internal controls.
• Apply group accounting policies, guidelines and the control framework to maintain integrity of reported financials.

What you'll need

• Minimum 9-10 years of experience in the ATR domain as Accounting Manager, FNA Manager or ATR Controller.
• Preferably at least 3-4 years of experience in an ATR functional area of expertise.
• Strong people leadership skills, with experience leading a span of 3 to 4 team members.
• Experience coaching and developing people to build organisational capability, talent and bench strength.
• Qualified Chartered Accountant with a good understanding of IFRS.
• Expert domain knowledge of ATR processes and a good understanding of subledgers (STP and OTC processes).
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Experience delivering results through others (direct and indirect reports).
• Level-headed and effective at change management, able to push back when appropriate and face resistance calmly and respectfully.
• Good English written and verbal communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Well versed in group accounting policies, guidelines and control framework.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.