Assistant Manager - Accounting

Overview

Assistant Manager - Accounting role supporting financial accounting, reporting, process improvement and automation, statutory compliance, internal controls, and month-end/year-end closing, including Alteryx-based finance processes.

What you'll do

• Manage and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing activities.
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of general ledger accounting, journal entries, provisions, accruals, and account reconciliations.
• Prepare and review financial statements and management reporting packs.
• Perform balance sheet reviews and ensure timely resolution of aged or unreconciled items.
• Analyze financial results, identify significant movements and variances, and provide explanations.
• Ensure adherence to applicable accounting standards, including US GAAP / IFRS, as relevant to the organization.
• Support consolidation and group reporting requirements, where applicable.
• Review financial information and accounting outputs received from other ABC teams for consistency with controllership and reporting requirements.
• Maintain a strong financial control environment and ensure compliance with established finance policies and procedures.
• Review key financial processes and controls to identify control gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure appropriate documentation and supporting evidence for accounting transactions.
• Support internal control testing, risk assessments, and remediation of identified control deficiencies.
• Provide indirect oversight of key finance outputs from ABC teams, including Payroll and Rebates, ensuring risks, exceptions, and variances are identified and addressed.
• Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across controllership processes.
• Coordinate with statutory, internal, and other auditors and ensure timely completion of audit requirements.
• Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, supporting documentation, and responses to audit queries.
• Ensure timely closure of audit observations and implementation of agreed corrective actions.
• Support statutory and regulatory compliance requirements applicable to the organization.
• Coordinate with tax and compliance teams on GST, TDS, corporate tax, and other statutory requirements, as applicable.
• Drive timely completion of month-end and year-end closing activities in accordance with the finance calendar.
• Review accruals, provisions, prepayments and other key accounting areas.
• Ensure accurate cut-off and appropriate accounting treatment of transactions.
• Monitor open items and ensure timely resolution before reporting deadlines.
• Partner with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, Commercial, Operations, and other functions to resolve finance and accounting matters.
• Provide accounting guidance to business stakeholders on complex or non-routine transactions.
• Work closely with shared service/finance operations teams to ensure adherence to accounting and reporting requirements.
• Provide financial insights and recommendations to management based on accounting and financial analysis.
• Establish effective review mechanisms with ABC teams to monitor the quality and timeliness of process outputs.
• Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of finance processes.
• Create, manage, review and monitor Alteryx workflows supporting finance and controllership processes.
• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of Alteryx outputs used for accounting, reporting, reconciliations, and reserve calculations.
• Support finance transformation, ERP, reporting, and automation initiatives.
• Develop and monitor appropriate financial controls, SOPs, checklists, and process documentation.
• Promote standardization and best practices across finance processes.
• Review work performed by team members and provide guidance on accounting and controllership matters.
• Support the development and mentoring of junior finance team members.
• Ensure effective prioritization of activities to meet reporting and compliance deadlines.
• Coordinate with process owners across ABC teams and provide guidance to support consistent and accurate deliverables.

What you'll need

• Chartered Accountant (CA), mandatory.
• Minimum 5 years of post-qualification experience in Finance Controllership, Financial Reporting, Accounting, or Audit.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP / IFRS and financial reporting principles.
• Good understanding of statutory audit, internal controls, and financial compliance requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Alteryx, including creation of workflow, workflow review, output validation, issue resolution, and process documentation.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong technical accounting and financial reporting knowledge.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and financial controls.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under tight reporting deadlines.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to independently identify issues and drive them to closure.
• Strong ownership, accountability, and ability to work collaboratively across functions.
• Ability to exercise effective indirect oversight over cross-functional finance outputs.
• Ability to review and guide the work of junior team members.

Nice to have

• Experience in a multinational organization, large corporate, Big 4, or similar professional environment.
• Experience in a global or shared-services environment.
• Experience in process automation and Alteryx-based finance solutions.
• Process-improvement and automation mindset.

Details

• Full-time position based out of the Pune office.