Role Title: Accountant

Function and Department: Global Finance, Global Controllers

Location: India, MUMBAI

Position Summary:  

The accountant is responsible for handling accounts and tax matters to meet financial reporting and tax requirements for India entity.

Key Responsibilities / What You'll Achieve

• Perform month-end closing processes and ensuring compliance with local and group reporting requirements.
• Perform variance, cost, profit and trending analysis.
• Perform reconciliations for bank, intercompany, and balance sheet accounts. 
• Handles direct and indirect tax filing and return submission in accordance with the local law and statutes.
• Ensure internal and external financial and tax reporting compliance requirements and timelines are met.
• Support statutory audit, tax and local transfer pricing reporting, ensuring statutory compliance are  adhered and complete timely.
• Provide support to projects where expertise is required; support queries and work with stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Identify and implement improvement opportunities.
• Other ad hoc requests and supports as required.

What will you gain from this role?

• Strong financial and tax reporting knowledge.
• Development of influencing communication skills.
• Ability to provide quality Finance related advice for business application.

Skills & Qualifications

• Degree in accountancy with at least 5 years accounting and tax experience.  
• Good technical knowledge of India accounting practices, financial reporting, and tax legislation compliance.

• Experience in intercompany accounting and reconciliations. 
• Experience in SAP system, a shared service center environment or an MNC will be an added advantage.
• Meticulous, able to multi-task and delivery results within tight deadlines.
• Good analytical and problems solving skills.
• A responsible team player with good communication, follow-up and inter-personal skills.
• Self-driven, able to work independently and welcome new challenges.