Senior Accountant (Statutory Centre of Excellence)

Overview

Senior Accountant within the Statutory Centre of Excellence, supporting global statutory reporting and the external audits of Mastercard companies worldwide, and managing a team of finance professionals.

What you'll do

• Perform complex accounting activities, such as sub-ledger accounting (SLA) and high-level financial statements, in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with relevant regulations, laws and reporting requirements.
• Analyze and exercise judgment on financial performance and complex issues.
• Independently determine the complexity of issues, escalate them and make recommendations to leadership.
• Assist with the implementation of process improvements.
• Support SOX compliance and assist with control improvements.
• Support the business partner relationship and apply a client-service mentality to all deliverables.
• Support relationships with external and internal auditors.
• Research, interpret and apply accounting guidance, e.g., GAAP, to provide the appropriate accounting treatment to financial statements and ensure consistent application of accounting policies.

What you'll need

• Experience managing components of larger projects.
• Experience creating and delivering presentations for training events and/or business discussions.
• Experience working with colleagues from other business units and markets.
• Comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements and financial reporting requirements, with consistently accurate and timely work.
• Experience reviewing and analyzing work for appropriate accounting treatment.
• Experience implementing and suggesting process improvements.
• Experience performing basic issue resolution; gains exposure to the resolution of complex issues.
• Experience executing controls and assessing their effectiveness, and making recommendations to improve areas of concern.
• Proactively build relationships with business partners.
• May produce and review internal and external reports with a moderate level of complexity to ensure compliance.
• Advanced MS Excel skills (essential).
• Experience in statutory reporting with IFRS and US GAAP experience.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree; qualified accountant (ACA, AMCA, ACCA).
• Oracle/Hyperion skills.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.