Analyst (Shared Services) - ART (GL Accounting)

Overview

Shared Services analyst responsible for month-close accounting and reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, TB and flux analysis, ensuring the financial integrity of SAP account balances, with review responsibilities over junior staff.

What you'll do

• Apply accounting policies and procedures and assess the impact of postings in SAP; obtain appropriate approvals before recording entries per SOX and company policy.
• Complete journal postings within TAT, address audit queries in detail, maintain posting quality and prepare a monthly dashboard of metrics.
• Review or perform balance sheet account reconciliations (accrued liabilities, AR and AP, equity, deposits, investments) per the global accounts reconciliation policy; identify open items, follow up and escalate as needed.
• Prepare quarterly balance sheet flux analysis.
• Create and change master data for cost centers, cost center cycles, CO-PA cycles and related assessment cycles as requested by businesses and support functions.
• Perform end-to-end month-end closing activities, including cost center cycle runs, re-evaluation of books of accounts and movement of financial data to special purpose ledgers.
• Create cost center reports (plan vs. actual) and monthly MIS for each country, including variance analysis and financial performance.
• Prepare monthly trend and flux analysis reports and cash flow reports for 10-K/10-Q filing.
• Ensure financial integrity for manufacturing overhead, selling, administration, R&D, management and related P&L and balance sheet data.
• Maintain general ledgers and perform the complete accounting cycle (close, re-open periods) in compliance with US GAAP.
• Execute monthly SAP closing activities for multiple plant sites within each supported business.
• Generate, validate and analyze reports such as trial balance, tri-column report, cash flow statement and balance sheet report, and any other report requested by the business.
• Share the complete financial report package with the client after closure and finalization of books for each period.
• Provide support to onshore counterparts on Record to Report processes; attend business calls and meetings and drive issue resolution.
• Serve as a resource for Business Controllers, Business Analysts, Plant Accountants, Corporate Accounting, Tax and Treasury on SARM and manufacturing overhead costing issues.
• Put proactive controls in place to surface issues before the business does; adhere to internal control policies and established SOX compliance processes.
• Develop in-depth knowledge of business processes covering miscellaneous billings, accruals and account reconciliations, and drive process improvement.
• Ensure 100% KCA delivery and that process documentation (SOP and RACI) is completed for all activities.

What you'll need

• MBA or semi-qualified CMA, CA or CPA with minimum 4 to 6 years of experience, or qualified CMA, CA or CPA with minimum 2 to 3 years of experience.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with business partners and customers.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Very good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and PowerPoint.
• Good technical understanding of accounting principles and competence in applying them.
• Strong client engagement and interpersonal skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills; embraces change, flexible and positive.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams.
• Analytical skills to interpret data and develop savings or improvement opportunities.
• Strong computer skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Lotus Notes.
• Ability to listen and communicate information clearly, courteously, concisely and logically.
• Commitment to the Qnity Core Values: Customers, Innovation, Speed, People.
• Accounting and reporting expertise with strong analytical and accounting understanding.
• SAP expertise in FI/CO, able to fix closing errors and hands-on in extracting tables and reports from SAP and applying data link logic.
• Ready to work any shift.

Nice to have

• Power Query and Power BI skillset.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana.
• Ready to work any shift.
• Requires end-user exposure to the SAP FI module and consolidated reporting tools.