Associate Director - Legal Entity Integrations

Overview

Associate Director, M&A Legal Entity Integrations, within the Controllership team. Owns enterprise strategy and execution for legal entity integration, consolidation, and disposition, and the M&A accounting and integration processes that support them.

What you'll do

• Define and maintain the enterprise-wide strategy for legal entity integration, simplification, and rationalization across acquisitions, divestitures, and internal reorganizations.
• Establish guiding principles for legal entity structure optimization aligned with regulatory, tax, operational, treasury, and financial reporting requirements.
• Partner with senior leadership to ensure legal entity architecture supports long-term business strategy, capital efficiency, and governance standards.
• Lead end-to-end execution oversight of legal entity integrations, mergers, dissolutions, wind-downs, and dispositions.
• Oversee planning and execution of entity eliminations, including statutory closure processes, accounting close activities, and regulatory filings.
• Coordinate across Tax, Treasury, Legal, HR, and Controllership to ensure entity lifecycle activities are executed accurately and on time.
• Ensure appropriate accounting treatment and financial statement impacts are understood and executed correctly, including consolidation, eliminations, and intercompany resolution.
• Own the controllership execution framework for complex restructuring initiatives sponsored by Senior Executives.
• Translate executive-driven restructuring objectives into structured legal entity transformation roadmaps, including sequencing, governance, and execution dependencies.
• Oversee large-scale, multi-jurisdictional legal entity rationalization programs involving multiple business units and regulatory environments.
• Ensure disciplined execution of high-visibility transformation initiatives with strong governance, auditability, and risk management.
• Act as a key advisor to senior leadership on feasibility, sequencing, and execution risks of legal entity restructuring decisions.
• Partner with M&A and transformation Project Managers to execute cross-business legal entity integration plans.
• Translate integration strategy into detailed execution plans, milestones, and workstreams aligned with broader program timelines.
• Ensure dependencies across finance, systems, operations, tax, and governance functions are actively managed.
• Serve as escalation point for entity-level execution risks and structural integration challenges.
• Establish governance frameworks for legal entity lifecycle decisions, including approval structures and documentation standards.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, statutory requirements, and audit expectations, and maintain robust audit trails for all entity integration, elimination, and restructuring activities.
• Oversee risk identification and mitigation across legal entity transformation programs.
• Partner with Controllership and Technical Accounting to ensure accurate treatment of entity mergers, consolidations, eliminations, and dispositions under applicable GAAP frameworks.
• Support resolution of accounting issues arising from differences between local statutory reporting and US GAAP (or other applicable standards).
• Ensure alignment of entity-level close processes during integration and restructuring events.
• Act as a central coordination point across Tax, Treasury, Legal, Controllership, and external advisors.
• Communicate progress, risks, and decisions to senior executive stakeholders and governance forums.
• Influence cross-functional teams without direct authority to ensure timely and accurate execution of complex programs.
• Continuously evaluate and improve integration processes, including use of Artificial Intelligence, and implement best practices and standard operating procedures for legal entity integration and M&A accounting.
• Define the purchase accounting process for all acquisitions, including identification and valuation of acquired assets and liabilities, dispositions, valuations and earnouts.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10-12 years of experience in accounting, finance, or a related field, with a focus on M&A, legal entity management, purchase accounting, and valuations.
• Proven experience in managing complex, multi-workstream programs in global organizations.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex information to senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency in financial reporting and ERP systems.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Flexibility to work across different time zones to collaborate with global teams.

Nice to have

• CPA or equivalent qualification.

Details

• Location: Mumbai, Hiranandani office.
• Hybrid role: minimum three days per week in the office.
• Flexibility to work across different time zones.