Sr Manager Accounting (General Ledger)

Overview

Lead a team of approximately 25 accounting professionals across General Accounting, Capital/Fixed Assets Accounting, and Cash Accounting within the Advance India Innovation Center, serving as a senior liaison to U.S. Controllership leadership.

What you'll do

• Lead, develop, and oversee a team of approximately 25 accounting professionals, including Assistant Managers, Managers, Analysts, and Senior Analysts.
• Provide clear direction, coaching, talent development, and performance management to build accountability, engagement, and readiness for expanded responsibilities.
• Serve as a senior AIIC liaison to U.S. functional leaders, ensuring priorities, initiatives, deliverables, and projects are executed accurately and on time.
• Navigate relationships across India and U.S. teams, building trust, alignment, and disciplined communication in a matrixed operating environment.
• Identify, prioritize, and lead AI, automation, and workflow improvement initiatives that reduce manual effort and create sustainable process efficiencies.
• Partner with functional leaders and technology teams to embed automation into recurring accounting processes, including close, reconciliations, reporting, and analysis.
• Improve close, reconciliation, and reporting cycle times while maintaining accuracy, control discipline, and visibility to risks and issues.
• Elevate the team's contribution from transactional execution to value-added analysis, insights, and proactive support for business decision-making.
• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities for assigned General Accounting, Capital/Fixed Assets, and Cash Accounting processes.
• Provide functional oversight of journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and related reporting, ensuring issues are researched, escalated, and resolved.
• Ensure proper accounting, governance, and controls over fixed assets, capital projects, additions, disposals, and related depreciation.
• Oversee cash accounting, bank and cash reconciliations, and related issue resolution, partnering with Treasury and U.S. leaders as needed.
• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, applicable India statutory requirements, company accounting policies, and internal control expectations.
• Ensure U.S. and India audit requirements are met, with PBC requests, analyses, and supporting documentation accurate, complete, and delivered by deadlines.
• Maintain and strengthen SOX and internal control processes, promoting disciplined execution, documentation quality, and timely remediation of control issues.
• Proactively identify operational, accounting, and control risks and communicate clearly with U.S. and India stakeholders to drive timely resolution.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, with meaningful exposure to General Accounting, Capital/Fixed Assets Accounting, Cash Accounting, shared services, or controllership operations.
• Proven experience leading managers and large teams in a matrixed, global environment, with the ability to motivate, develop, and hold teams accountable.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and implement AI, automation, and process improvement opportunities that improve efficiency, quality, and scalability.
• Strong business partnering skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and communicate effectively across India and U.S. leadership teams.
• Strong ERP, reporting, and analytical skills.
• Executive presence, sound judgment, strong communication skills, and a leadership style grounded in collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• CA, CA Inter, CPA, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Oracle experience.

Details

• Location: Advance India Innovation Center (AIIC), Hyderabad, India.