Analyst - Financial Control

Overview

Manage the financial operations of the organisation, ensuring the accuracy, integrity and reliability of financial reporting, including projects such as legal entity reporting.

What you'll do

• Prepare and present accurate and timely financial statements and other accounting records in accordance with relevant accounting standards, rules and regulations.
• Support the identification, assessment and mitigation of financial risks, and report these risks to senior colleagues.
• Develop and maintain a robust system of internal controls to safeguard assets, prevent fraudulent misreporting and ensure accuracy of financial data, including regular assessment of control effectiveness and addressing weaknesses or gaps.
• Develop and implement up-to-date financial policies and procedures to ensure consistent and effective financial practices across the organisation.
• Manage the selection, implementation and maintenance of financial systems and software applications, including collaborating with IT colleagues to integrate them with other enterprise systems.
• Prepare and submit statutory and regulatory reports to authorities, and support other departments in preparing and reviewing regulatory reports.
• Coordinate with external auditors and regulatory authorities in support of audits and examinations.
• Manage Legal Entity Control function and related businesses by driving resolution of key business issues.
• Lead and supervise a team, guiding professional development, allocating work and coordinating team resources, where leadership responsibilities apply.
• Escalate breaches of policies and procedures appropriately, and embed new policies and procedures adopted for risk mitigation.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function and build a network of contacts inside and outside the organisation.

What you'll need

• Qualified Accountant: CA, CMA or ACCA.
• Strong academic background: 1st class honours minimum bachelor degree from a reputable institution.
• Knowledge and understanding of the key accounting principles under IFRS.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Prior experience, if any, in a month-end or quarter-end focused reporting role or control environment, or finance automation skillset.

Nice to have

• Good stakeholder engagement skills and understanding and executing stakeholder requirements and expectations.
• Automation tools related knowledge.
• Enthusiastic, motivated, self-starter, pro-active and a team player.
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communicator.
• Willingness and ability to take ownership of issues and manage them through to successful resolution.
• Eye for detail and track record in managing and resolving conflict situations and exceptions.

Details

• Based out of Gurugram.