Financial Accountant Associate / Accountant / Senior

Overview

Financial Accountant role at FedEx Mumbai overseeing and reviewing general ledger accounting, reconciliations, month-end close and internal controls for the operations team.

What you'll do

• Oversee and review GL accounting activities performed by the operations team, ensuring accuracy, completeness and policy compliance.
• Drive timely resolution of reconciliation exceptions and aged items through collaboration with business stakeholders and support teams.
• Review month-end close activities, ensuring adherence to timelines, accounting standards and internal controls.
• Partner with business functions and finance teams to provide accounting guidance, resolve queries and improve financial transparency.
• Monitor balance sheet accounts and GL trends, identifying risks, unusual transactions and opportunities for corrective actions.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, strengthen controls and reduce manual effort across accounting processes.
• Maintain and update process documentation, SOPs and control frameworks, ensuring compliance with organizational and audit requirements.
• Support statutory audits, tax audits and compliance reviews by coordinating documentation, schedules and stakeholder responses.
• Perform quality reviews of journals, accruals, provisions, prepayments and other accounting adjustments to ensure adherence to company policies.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to clerical and operational team members, driving service excellence, governance and continuous capability development.
• Ensure accurate recording of RTR functional transactions in the general ledger.
• Oversee and review preparation of balance sheet reconciliations and journal entries to GL within prescribed timelines.
• Maintain correct records on assigned GL accounts and ensure compliance with company policies and guidelines.
• Monitor, analyze and resolve open items on balance sheet accounts to ensure timely clearing.
• Implement necessary process updates.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across finance, ship-to-collect, clearance and peers in other regions to ensure consistent and standardized treatment of transactions.
• Support audits and provide documentation for RTR functional area related queries.
• Prepare RTR function related reports and analysis of open items.
• Perform numerical analysis to validate computations, identify discrepancies and solve process gaps.
• Assist in process improvement projects and business optimization initiatives.

What you'll need

• Proficiency in numerical analysis and ability to interpret complex data.
• Strong financial accounting knowledge, including accruals, reconciliations and revenue accounting.
• Advanced Excel skills for calculations and reconciliations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work under strict deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
• Professional certification (CA, CPA or equivalent).
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.).
• Proactive willingness and initiative to learn and adopt new tools, applications and Gen AI in daily work to enhance efficiency.
• Prior experience in finance functions within a corporate environment in roles related to process management and improvements.
• Experience in projects related to automation of processes.
• Power BI and Power Query active user.
• Bachelor: Accounting (Required).
• Professional: Accounting (Required).
• English (Required).

Details

• Location: Mumbai, India.
• Scheduled weekly hours: 48.
• Worker type: Regular.
• Grade 13.