Assistant Financial Controller

You should possess preferred qualification of CA and have strong accounting fundamentals with sound knowledge of Accounting and reporting Standards (eg. Ind AS/ IFRS) and ability to interpret, assimilate and apply the standards/concepts in real life scenarios. Prior hands-on working knowledge will be an added advantage. It is also essential to have working knowledge in an ERP environment and high level knowledge of various laws and compliance requirements thereof, governing the country operations. Your responsibilities will include the review and approval of journal entries and performing monthly/quarterly reporting submissions to corporate as per the Global close guidelines. You will be required to conduct a monthly review of the financial position of the legal entities assigned, including the operating cash flows, and liaise with Treasury/Tax on the intercompany settlements. Additionally, you will need to review BS recs on a monthly basis, drive resolution of aged open items by liaising with various internal teams, and provide timely risk reporting on P&L exposure to management. It will be your duty to ensure critical issues are addressed on priority and appropriate remedial action initiated, as well as streamline the go-forward process. You will also be responsible for ensuring timely and qualitative audit completion (entity Statutory Audit, tax Audits, USGAAP group audit, internal, and SOX audits). Furthermore, you will prepare financial statements and notes to accounts, including variance analysis with detailed explanations, as well as Board pack covering financial highlights. Maintaining a clear trail of all STAT adjustment entries and STAT schedules, preparing reconciliation between US GAAP and local GAAP, and initiating necessary steps to bridge the balances as required will also be part of your role. You will need to keep the country exceptions document up to date by reviewing the current process vis--vis the changes, if any, driven by local regulatory requirements. Strong verbal and written communication skills are necessary to ensure stakeholder queries/adhoc requests are appropriately addressed on time without any delay, thereby avoiding escalations. Lastly, you should actively participate in various country level, regional, global projects as may be assigned. This position is at Career Level - IC2.,