Specialist

Overview

Specialist role in Corporate Accounting at Medline India, Pune, covering month-end and year-end close, account reconciliations, GAAP compliance and continuous improvement of the accounting function across entities.

What you'll do

• Prepare and/or approve monthly close data, journal entries and financial reports.
• Support year-end audit, including updating SAP, preparing and updating schedules, and preparing sections of the audited statements.
• Perform account reconciliations designed to provide strong control over the Balance Sheet.
• Analyze operating financials, interpret results and recommend a plan of action to improve the accounting process.
• Ensure processes produce correct GAAP accounting and have sufficient documentation for both the procedure and the purpose.
• Provide accounting (GAAP and Medline internal) and process expertise to the company.
• Act as corporate owner of a key accounting process and provide guidance and support to subsidiaries, such as consolidations, month-end/year-end schedules, account reconciliations and accounting master data.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts across the accounting function, including subsidiaries.
• Support business initiatives that impact accounting and systems.
• Serve as backup for key individuals in the Corporate Accounting Department.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• At least 2 years of Corporate Accounting or Manufacturing Accounting experience.
• Experience applying GAAP knowledge.
• Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using AVERAGE function, merging and centering cells, printing centered page and/or creating a pivot table).
• Able to work with large amounts of data.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• CPA, CGMA or CMA certification.
• Strong expertise in at least one area of GAAP.
• SAP, AS400 and QAD system experience.
• Financial consolidations experience.
• RDMS (Access, FoxPro, etc.) experience.
• Change management experience.
• Project management experience.
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) experience.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.