Senior Specialist General Ledger

Overview

Senior Specialist General Ledger role within JLL Business Services (JBS), 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 completion in the tracker, and flag deadline risks to the reviewer before due dates; support cut-off and accrual data collection.
• Be fully accountable for the GL month-end close, including balance sheet reconciliation preparation.
• Prepare standard recurring and template-based journals with complete supporting documentation; post only after review or approval per the delegation matrix; correct errors under guidance.
• Prepare reconciliations for assigned low-to-medium risk accounts in Account Reconciliation Cloud Services (ARCS) using standard templates; explain simple variances and submit for review by the deadline.
• Maintain the open item listing for assigned accounts, follow up with owners for clearance, and report aged items and clearance progress to the reviewer.
• Compile standard schedules, trial balance extracts and recurring reports from templates; perform completeness and accuracy checks; support statutory and management reporting packs.
• Perform basic month-on-month and actual-versus-budget variance comparisons using templates; highlight movements above threshold and obtain explanations.
• Execute control steps exactly as documented, retain evidence in the agreed repository, comply with segregation of duties and policies, and report control breaches immediately.
• Retrieve and organise documents and data for internal and external audits; respond to simple queries on own work with supervisor guidance.
• Respond to routine queries from the team and defined contacts within agreed turnaround times; escalate non-standard requests.
• Document observed errors, delays and rework; suggest simple improvements; follow updated procedures and keep desk instructions current.
• Use ARCS, ERP and Excel features as trained; adopt automated workflows and bots; report tool defects and suggest automation candidates.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, commerce or a related discipline.
• 5 years of experience in accounting, finance operations or shared services; graduates and career starters welcome.
• Understanding of double-entry bookkeeping, chart of accounts, accruals, prepayments and the full ledger cycle.
• Awareness of core IFRS and US GAAP principles and differences relevant to assigned accounts; applies company policy as documented.
• Understanding of the close calendar, task dependencies and cut-off rules for assigned activities.
• Understanding of the purpose, types and risk ratings of reconciliations; prepares standard reconciliations using templates.
• Understanding of trial balance, balance sheet and P&L structure and how journals flow to reports.
• Calculates variances and flags those above threshold; understands common drivers of movement.
• Self-reviews own journals for accuracy, support and period; understands the approval hierarchy.
• Understands control objectives, segregation of duties and evidence requirements; follows SOX or equivalent controls as documented.
• Basic exposure to an ERP system (SAP or Oracle) and Excel.
• Navigates core transactions, line-item reports and master data views for assigned processes.
• Proficient in Excel with lookup functions, pivot tables, filters and basic formulas.
• Reads and filters Power BI dashboards; performs basic data validation, sorting and trend checks.
• Fluent business English; written and verbal communication for global stakeholders across JLL clusters and regions.

Nice to have

• Enrolment in or part-completion of CA, CPA, ACCA or CMA.
• ARCS user certification and Excel training.
• Additional regional languages.
• ARCS exposure.

Details

• On-site, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Scheduled weekly hours: 40.
• May require working across shifts and time zones when needed.