Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

Description -

Job Summary
This role is responsible for maintaining the integrity, accuracy, and compliance of the company's financial records and reporting in accordance with GAAP and applicable regulatory requirements.

It oversees core accounting processes, including general ledger management, journal entries, reconciliations, fixed assets, capital expenditures, revenue recognition, cash flows, and financial close activities, providing timely and reliable financial information to support internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities
• Lead assigned reconciliations, journal entries, close tasks and reporting deliverables end-to-end, ensuring accuracy, completeness, timeliness and strong control adherence.
• Review complex account reconciliations, investigate high-risk open items, identify root causes and drive sustainable resolution of reconciling differences.
• Prepare, review and approve journal entries with appropriate supporting documentation, accounting rationale and adherence to policies.
• Lead month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities for assigned R2R, P2P, AR processes, proactively tracking risks, dependencies and closure status.
• Perform detailed financial analysis, variance review, trend commentary and exception reporting to support business insights and management reporting for balance sheet accounts
• Provide accounting support and process oversight for Intercompany, Fixed Assets, Payroll Accounting, Deferred Revenue and Cash Accounting activities.
• Oversee P2P payment-related activities by validating exceptions, coordinating issue resolution and ensuring timely and controlled processing.
• Oversee invoicing activities, including review, validation, exception management and coordination with relevant teams to resolve billing or posting issues.
• Lead AR cash application support by reviewing complex customer receipt matching, clearing open items, resolving unapplied and unknown cash and ensuring accurate customer account updates.
• Manage internal and external audit queries by providing complete documentation, explaining process rationale and ensuring timely closure of audit requests.
• Strengthen compliance with accounting policies, internal controls, SOX requirements and reporting standards across assigned processes.
• Identify control gaps, recurring issues and process inefficiencies; recommend and drive improvements, automation and standardization initiatives.
• Support process documentation, knowledge transfer, audit readiness and timely communication of risks, accomplishments and improvement actions.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve accounting issues, improve process efficiency, and support operational excellence across the Finance Global Operations tower.
• Contributes to automation, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives within reconciliations, journal entry processes, and financial reporting.
• Maintains strong documentation, audit readiness, and timely communication of risks, issues, accomplishments, and process updates.

Education & Experience Recommended
Professional qualification preferred: Chartered Accountant (CA) or Cost and Management Accountant (CMA India), Certified Public Accountant.
• Typically has 4+ years of experience (post qualification) in general ledger accounting, reconciliations, journal entries, month-end close, financial analysis, or related finance operations.
• Prior experience in SAP/S4HANA, Cadency and SOX-controlled environments, audit support and process improvement initiatives is preferred.


Knowledge & Skills
• General Ledger Accounting and Financial Reporting
• Account Ownership and Balance Sheet Review
• Accounting Standards and Policies
• Root Cause Analysis and Sustainable Issue Resolution
• Audit Support, Control Documentation and SOX Compliance
• Process Improvement, Automation and Standardization

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Finance

Schedule -

Full time

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No shift premium (India)

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Relocation -

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