Reporting Accountant Specialist - ANZ

Overview

Reporting Accountant Specialist for the ANZ region, responsible for problem solving and recommending solutions to the RTR team for technical and judgmental transactions, ensuring the Business Unit aligns with internal policies, controls and external accounting and statutory frameworks.

What you'll do

• Ensure transactions are documented in compliance with group standards (including the Minimum Acceptable Practices) and, where relevant, Sarbanes Oxley requirements.
• Deliver high quality, timely reporting for group and statutory purposes and provide ad-hoc analysis and decision support to the business.
• Manage requests from external and internal auditors, other advisors and relevant country authorities.
• Manage month end close, balance sheet reconciliation and balance sheet reviews, and issue resolution.
• Ensure ledgers are clean by resolving aged open items, reconciling differences and ensuring master data is maintained to high levels of quality and compliance.
• Maintain SOPs to meet S&N standard cycles.
• Highlight and challenge exceptions from global standards.
• Ensure controls are executed and adhered to in line with Risk and Control Matrices (RACMs) (SOX & MAPs) and wider S&N policies including the Group Finance Manual.
• Highlight improvement opportunities in existing processes and drive process improvement and standardization.
• Make suggestions for the future use of new tools and technology in the RTR domain and, where approved, implement them into the Service offering.
• Identify reasons for service and control deficiencies and shortcomings, and propose and implement solutions to resolve underlying issues.

What you'll need

• Should possess end to end understanding of R2R processes of the business.
• Degree level qualification and professional qualification (CA / CMA), or MBA Finance / M.Com.
• Experience of R2R operations for at least 3-6 years, with excellent domain expertise in closing and reporting process.
• Hands-on experience in managing month end close, balance sheet reconciliation and balance sheet reviews, and issue resolution.
• Demonstrates experience in analyzing financial data, drawing sound conclusions, and developing proposals/solutions.
• Well conversed with SAP application.
• Basic understanding of P2P and T&E operations.
• Team player with ability to build relationships and influence team members and wider stakeholders.
• Working knowledge and application of SOX control frameworks.
• Fluency in English, with good verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to have

• Semi-qualified accountant.
• Experience of SAP / Hyperion / Tagetik.
• Experience of working in a large / listed entity.
• Experience of transition and transformation to an offshore Captive or BPO Transactional Finance operation.

Details

• Location: GBS-Pune-Kharadi, Pune, India.
• Shift: ANZ shift, 06:30 AM to 03:30 PM IST.
• Hybrid work model (for most professional roles).