Assistant Manager General Ledger

Overview

Assistant Manager General Ledger in JLL Business Services (JBS) within the R2R function, owning month-end close activities, balance sheet reconciliations, financial reporting, controls and continuous improvement for global accounting operations.

What you'll do

• Independently plan and execute owned close activities (accruals, provisions, intercompany, cut-off and allocations) to the close calendar, tracking dependencies and escalating risks early with proposed solutions.
• Prepare standard and moderately complex journals (accruals, reclassifications, provisions, FX revaluation) and review journals prepared by P1s for policy compliance and approval thresholds.
• Own reconciliations for assigned accounts, including medium and high-risk accounts, ensuring timely preparation, certification and evidence in Account Reconciliation Cloud Services (ARCS), and review P1 reconciliations.
• Manage aging and clearance of open items across owned accounts, driving action with business and finance owners and reporting the aging trend.
• Prepare and review management and statutory reporting inputs, schedules and disclosures, and support consolidation and group reporting submissions.
• Perform month-on-month, actual-versus-budget and forecast variance analysis, identify root causes, write commentary for controllers and business partners, and recommend corrective actions.
• Operate and evidence key controls for owned processes, perform self-assessments, and identify control gaps and remediation, ensuring adherence to policy, SOX or equivalent requirements and segregation of duties.
• Prepare audit documentation for owned accounts, respond directly to routine internal and external audit queries, and support remediation of findings.
• Act as day-to-day contact for entity controllers and business partners on owned areas, setting timeline and data expectations and managing first-line escalations.
• Identify recurring errors, bottlenecks and manual effort in owned processes, implement local improvements, update procedures and desk instructions, and participate in Lean or Six Sigma activities.
• Maximise ARCS auto-matching and workflow features, build and use Excel and Power BI tools for analysis, and document requirements for automation candidates and support testing and user acceptance.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance or Commerce.
• 7 years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 2 years in R2R, GL or financial reporting within a shared services or multinational environment.
• Strong command of the accounting cycle including accruals, provisions, fixed assets, intercompany, FX and cut-off.
• Working knowledge of IFRS / US GAAP standards affecting owned accounts (revenue, leases, provisions, financial instruments, FX).
• Hands-on experience with SAP or Oracle.
• Hands-on experience with Account Reconciliation Cloud Services (ARCS).
• Advanced Excel skills (XLOOKUP or INDEX-MATCH, pivot tables, Power Query, conditional logic).
• Has completed multiple full close cycles and owned reconciliations through audit.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or MBA.
• Part-qualified or newly qualified CA, CPA, ACCA or CMA.
• ARCS certification, Power BI (PL-300) or Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
• Power BI exposure.

Details

• On-site, Hyderabad, TS.
• Scheduled weekly hours: 40.