Senior Associate- Record to Report

Purpose of the Job:

The role will apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports utilizing GAAP. May function as an accounting liaison, participate in accounting projects, and provide direction to less experienced accounting staff.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Candidate with 2- 8 years in Record to Report, Balance Sheet Reconciliation, Financial statement preparation, Bank Reconciliation, and Good communication skills.
2. Preparation of end-to-end financial statements, including General Ledger and Bank Reconciliation.
3. Responsible for completing all the routine activities related to preparing, reviewing, and finalizing financials.
4. Work on complex tasks like inter-company reconciliation and true-up entries, consolidation, cleaning up old and outstanding items, researching any ad-hoc requests from clients, etc., and respond accordingly.
5. Review tasks assigned to associates/analysts that are aligned with them and provide the findings.
6. Prepare a complete package with comments on financials and work papers for the manager or a US accountant to review for final approval.
7. Preparation of budget set-ups in client reports.
8. Responsible for accurate and timely delivery of financials (IS/BS/Cash Flow, Trend reports, Work-papers/Customized Reports, etc.) and other ad-hoc client requests as per TAT and quality parameters defined.
9. Update process notes, SOPs, checklists, financial delivery log, timesheets, activity tracker, and other MIS as per timelines.
10. Tracking and ensuring timely response to all emails, by self or junior team members. The manager’s assistance is to be taken if required to understand complex emails.
11. Take the lead on new client transitions under the manager’s guidance.
12. Take ownership and ensure completion of any other ad-hoc tasks the manager assigns.
13. Train new team members on the process as per the requirement.
14. Based on business requirements, attend and discuss open issues with clients on regular calls for the assigned accounts or tasks (along with the manager).