Manager - General Accounting (IC)

Overview

Manager, General Accounting (IC) in JLL Business Services (JBS), a senior individual-contributor role in the R2R function delivering month-end close, reconciliations, financial reporting, governance and continuous improvement for global accounting operations.

What you'll do

• Complete assigned close tasks to the close calendar and checklist, confirm task completion in the tracker, and flag risks to deadlines to the reviewer before the due date.
• Support cut-off and accrual data collection.
• Take full accountability for the GL month-end close (MEC), including balance sheet reconciliation preparation.
• Lead complex close activities and tower-level close planning across entities and regions, managing critical-path dependencies and cut-off risk.
• Prepare and review complex, high-value and judgemental journals, and set journal quality standards.
• Own reconciliation standards for the tower, review and approve high-risk reconciliations, and resolve long-standing and complex reconciling items.
• Lead aged and complex open item clearance programmes and report aging and risk trends to leadership.
• Review and sign off tower-level management and statutory reporting inputs, ensuring consistency with group policy.
• Lead analysis of complex or material variances and advise controllers on implications and actions.
• Act as control SME, supporting control testing, self-assessment and SOX or equivalent compliance, and track remediation closure.
• Lead audit preparation and responses for the tower and engage directly with internal and external auditors on complex queries.
• Handle escalations from controllers, business partners and regional finance leaders, and negotiate timelines, scope and priorities.
• Lead Lean or Six Sigma process improvement projects, standardise best practice across regions, and maintain process documentation.
• Define automation requirements and business cases, and lead testing, adoption and benefit realisation for RPA, ARCS, ERP workflow and Power BI solutions.
• Act as a strategic bridge between business and executive leadership, aligning departmental priorities with company-wide growth targets and advising leaders on operational improvements.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
• 10 years of accounting experience, including at least 3 years in R2R, with demonstrated SME ownership of a process area and experience leading improvements.
• Led or substantially contributed to complex closes, audits and at least one transformation or automation project.
• Advanced knowledge of SAP or Oracle, Account Reconciliations Cloud Services (ARCS), advanced Excel and Power BI.
• Deep command of the full accounting cycle, including complex, judgemental and non-routine transactions.
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP, including GAAP differences and group policy.
• Strong command of control design, operating effectiveness, SoD and testing.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or MBA.
• CA, CPA, ACCA or CMA (strongly preferred).
• Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt, ARCS certification or Power BI certification.
• Exposure to automation tools (RPA, workflow).

Details

• On-site, Hyderabad, TS.
• Scheduled weekly hours: 40.
• Matrixed global role supporting clusters across AMER, APAC and EMEA.