Accountant

Experience - 4+ years

Primary skill: US GAAP, Financial Reporting & Reconciliation, General Ledger, Accounts Payable

Location - Bangalore (now remote)

Job Summary:

The primary purpose of this role is to capture moderately complex financial activities and resolve issues in accounting records to
enable accurate reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. This includes responsibility for conducting effective research,
managing, tracking, reporting, and reviewing work on financial activities according to various international, federal, state, and local
obligations to ensure accounting records are correct. In addition, this role executes internal controls over financial and regulatory
reporting, by working independently to apply experienced accounting judgment and knowledge of GAAP and regulatory
requirements in daily activity.

Core Responsibilities:
 Executes financial activities in a timely and efficient manner, with a focus on activities that require applying practiced
knowledge of moderately complex systems, business processes, and GAAP principles to unique situations.
 Prepares and evaluates reports to ensure accuracy of financial reporting and analysis.
 Performs analysis (i.e., historical, forecasting, impact, etc.) and reconciliations to support monthly, quarterly and annual
closing cycles according to prescribed rates, laws, and regulations.
 Reviews reports, analysis and reconciliations prepared by Accountants to ensure the accuracy of financial reporting and
analysis.
 Research various financial activities to identify moderately complex issues, explaining findings to principal accountants,
managers, and directors to determine resolution.
 Manages small projects/initiatives and/or participates in broader projects, working with and directing teams within a
finance function to deliver the best solutions to financial issues.
 Maintains appropriate supporting documents, provisions, and other details for accounting transactions and entries.
 Communicates effectively within the team, across other functions, and with external parties to ensure alignment.
 Partners with team and the business to identify transaction issues and procedure improvement opportunities to support the
needs of the Finance organization more-effectively.
 Mentors and trains lower-level accounting employees in the development of accounting skills, knowledge of key principles,
regulations, etc.
 Works with external (regulatory and third party) and independent auditors for transactions to provide required data and
information to ensure accuracy.
 Executes testing around financial controls to provide documentation and support for SOX compliance in respective financial
area.
 Serves as PO Recon Subject Matter Expert / Team Trainer
 Special projects as assigned.
 Ensure all assigned unpaid invoices, disputes & returns are resolved in a timely manner.
 Prioritize the ageing and urgent requests on regular basis.
 Maintains appropriate supporting documents, provisions, and other details for accounting transactions and entries.
 Explains current accounting practices and closing cycle procedures and requirements.
 Follow the escalation matrix and keep the Specialist/Senior Specialists informed on all process changes/escalations.