Staff Accountant, Operations

Overview

Staff Accountant in the Operations Accounting team, reporting to the Accounting Manager – Operations, responsible for reconciling third party fee products, preparing journal entries and performing balance sheet reconciliations.

What you'll do

• Ensure transactions reported by store operations are reconciled to amounts provided by third parties.
• Investigate variances and resolve them systematically, prioritized by risk evaluation.
• Report all significant variances to the supervisor and appropriate levels in Store Operations.
• Ensure Store Operations is working within set policies and procedures and report deviations to the appropriate level.
• Complete daily reconciliation of assigned third party fee products.
• Reconcile weekly settlements and communicate to the Treasury department.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for assigned accounts, ensuring balances are well supported.
• Follow up on reconciliation discrepancies and resolve within policy guidelines.
• Prepare and post journal entries related to revenue, accruals and other financial transactions, ensuring proper documentation and adherence to accounting principles.
• Ensure the integrity of accounting information through timely journal entry preparation, variance analyses and resolution of account variances.
• Maintain a positive working relationship when addressing problems and providing solutions.
• Respond to questions from other internal departments and liaise with select external parties.
• Assist with assessing and monitoring internal controls, including risk assessments and reviews of risk areas.
• Identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements towards a quicker month-end close while maintaining accounting integrity.
• Responsible for analytics or projects in support of executives and operations management as assigned.
• Establish monitoring and enforcement of company policies, procedures and internal controls.
• Contribute to preparing audit support.

What you'll need

• Post secondary education in Accounting.
• 2+ years general accounting experience.
• Bank account and balance sheet account reconciliation experience.
• Journal entry preparation experience.
• Ability to apply critical thinking, analyze information and establish resolution plans.
• Self-motivated; able to work independently and collaborate with others to identify quality solutions.
• Strong organization; ability to prioritize tasks to meet requirements and deadlines.
• Ability to perform with a high level of accuracy under tight time constraints.
• Ability to handle large datasets, complex GL strings and multiple entities/currencies.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, vlookups and filtering).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Comfortable with change and a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Accounting degree.
• Familiarity with Oracle ERP system.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.
• Work mode: Hybrid (currently remote, with a future transition to a hybrid model).