Manager, Accounting

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Role Description:

Finance Manager

Reporting to the Senior Director, Accounting of the Controllership Strategy and Enablement Team, we are currently seeking a Finance Manager to support our team’s strategy, growth and innovation. This position is based in Hyderabad, India.

As a member of the Controllership Strategy and Enablement Team, you will be working in a fast-paced environment while building relationships within the global accounting teams and the larger business operations organization globally (i.e. Finance & Strategy, Controllership Shared Services Centre (SSC), SOX 360, Internal Audit, Tax and Other Finance Functions etc).

We are looking for someone who has strong technical accounting knowledge, excellent problem solving skills, is a strong communicator, thrives on process improvement, and enjoys working in a challenging, fast–paced environment to support our continued success.

The Finance Manager is responsible for the end to end support of the tactical SOX Cycle Program in Controllership. In addition, the role will be involved in the building of our team’s expertise in quality assurance testing and advisory of controls and processes, participate in adhoc special projects ensuring proper SOX compliance, and interact with our external auditors and Internal audit team on SOX and testing matters. We are looking for someone who has strong external and internal audit experience, excellent problem solving skills, is a strong communicator, thrives on process improvement, and enjoys working in a challenging, fast–paced environment to support our continued success. This role will also support the enablement and training of Controllership on executing key controls and operational processes.

Exceptional candidates will be critical thinkers with focus on implementing innovation, process improvements to streamline and scale Salesforce’s processes for growth while not compromising compliance!

 Location: 

This role is hybrid and reports to the Hyderabad office 3 days a week.

What You will Do:

• Manage the day-to-day operations associated with the execution of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance program for Controllership including, thresholds & internal control  assessments, coordination of process documentation, risk assessments, SOX control testing, deficiency remediation, and working with the internal audit team and external auditors.

• As the trusted advisor, work with internal and external business partners (global/HQ and international) to ensure compliance with SOX, accounting policies, procedures, and controls and provide support on special requests

• Responsible for executing quality assurance testing, providing advisory support on controls and processes, and actively participating in ad hoc special projects.

• Provide expert advisory to support SOX compliance and process improvements.

• Drive to continuously improve the automation of accounting and reporting processes; rethink the status quo for continuous improvement and gaining efficiencies

• Propose and implement best practices that simplify, standardize and scale how we work; roll out global processes and systems globally, justify and document regional exceptions due to local requirements

• Drive engagements with global / regional accounting and cross functionally

• Ad-hoc global or regional finance projects as necessary

• Participate in various organisation / department wide initiatives 

Who You Are:

• 8+ years of overall combined accounting & audit (external & internal) experience, technology industry and Big 4 experience a plus

• Strong understanding of internal controls and SOX compliance

• Experience in SOX control documentation / execution / testing

• Knowledge of IFRS or US GAAP and; SOX or other local compliance equivalent

• Experience with major ERP system preferred (e.g Oracle, SAP, Netsuite, Workday) preferred

• Strong communication, collaboration and teamwork skills across all levels

• Proven critical thinking capability

• Process re-engineering involvement and / or process efficiency focus

• Strong analytical skills and experience using data analytics tools (e.g Tableau)

• Ability to identify and drive business accounting process improvement

• Ability to organize and prioritize responsibilities optimally in order to meet deadlines

• Work experience in managing outsourcing services would also be an advantage

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