Senior Analyst – Accounting Analytics & Reporting

Overview

Senior Analyst in Accounting Analytics & Reporting, partnering with Accounting leaders and cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven analytics and reporting that support the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) Office.

What you'll do

• Perform accounting and financial analysis on large, complex datasets to identify trends, exceptions, variances, risks, and opportunities.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close through reconciliations, accrual and journal-entry support, variance analysis, data validation, and analytical review.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance recurring accounting reports, dashboards, scorecards, and management reporting solutions.
• Translate accounting and operational data into insights and actionable recommendations for Accounting leadership and business stakeholders.
• Perform reconciliations and data validations to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of accounting and financial information.
• Independently investigate accounting and data discrepancies, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with stakeholders to drive timely resolution.
• Support and strengthen accounting controls, governance, compliance, and reporting accuracy through data-driven analysis and monitoring.
• Identify opportunities to automate and modernize manual accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and analytical processes.
• Design and develop scalable analytics, reporting, and automation solutions using SQL, Power BI, Excel, Python, and other data and automation technologies.
• Partner with Accounting stakeholders to understand business requirements, assess technical feasibility, and translate them into analytical and reporting solutions.
• Provide analytical support for ad-hoc business requests, special projects, process improvements, and strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams on data, reporting, system modernization, automation, and process-enhancement initiatives.
• Maintain documentation of business rules, reporting methodologies, data definitions, processes, controls, and analytical solutions.
• Present analytical findings, risks, recommendations, and proposed solutions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide analytical and technical guidance to team members and business partners and contribute to adopting analytics and automation best practices across Accounting.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Analytics, Engineering, Business Intelligence, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in Accounting Analytics, Financial Analytics, Reporting & Analytics, Business Intelligence, or a related analytical function.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing large and complex datasets and translating analysis into actionable business insights.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams across locations.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to independently investigate issues, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex analytical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex accounting and business requirements, translate business questions into analytical requirements, identify data sources, and develop scalable data-driven solutions.
• Strong SQL expertise with large and complex datasets, including complex joins, CTEs, window functions, aggregations, DDL/DML, stored procedures, query optimization, and data transformations.
• Strong working knowledge of Python for data analysis, transformation, automation, scripting, reconciliation, and custom analytical and process solutions.
• Strong experience developing end-to-end Power BI solutions, including data modeling, relationships, measures, DAX, Power Query, dashboard development, visualization, and reporting.
• Ability to translate complex datasets and business requirements into intuitive dashboards and actionable insights.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms and relational databases, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP)/BigQuery, MS SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.
• Ability to identify, integrate, validate, and analyze data across multiple data sources.
• Experience performing data validation, reconciliations, exception analysis, and control checks to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of financial and accounting reporting.
• Experience developing, scheduling, or supporting automated data and reporting workflows using technologies such as Alteryx/Knime, Apache Airflow/DAGs, Python, or similar tools.
• Experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Query, and SharePoint for workflow, reporting, and process-automation solutions.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for complex data analysis, financial/accounting analysis, reconciliations, reporting, and automation.
• Ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear business insights, recommendations, dashboards, and presentations for Accounting leadership and stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Postgraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting Accounting or Finance functions in a large enterprise environment.
• Experience with accounting processes including reconciliations, financial close, journal entries, variance analysis, financial controls, and management reporting.
• Experience with process automation, reporting modernization, and development of scalable analytical solutions.
• Experience with ETL and data-transformation tools such as KNIME and/or Alteryx.
• Experience developing automated workflows and modernizing manual accounting and reporting processes.
• Familiarity with cloud-based data environments, data pipelines, and enterprise analytics solutions.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, on-site office.