Expense Accounting - Assistant Manager
On-siteBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Monitor daily payroll tax reports, reconcile them against payroll and fed/state reports, and prepare corrective journal entries in the system. Validate all payroll-related payments, query management, and reconcile DDA accounts for employee payroll checks and ACH direct deposits. Provide real-time data for the global mobility group, support Tier 3 ticket escalations, and manage off-book manual journal entries and weekly tax filings. Coordinate month-end close activities, including accrual posting, account reconciliations for approximately 30 tax and benefit accounts, and intercompany entries for international assignments. Lead process re-engineering and automation efforts, update procedures, and perform SOX control testing.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Accounting
- Chartered Accountant (CA)
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- MBA Finance
- 6-8 years of progressive experience in R2R areas with major financial institutions
- Extensive practical experience and knowledge of US GAAP
- In depth knowledge of Payroll accounting along with US & Canadian Payroll Taxes including EMA and APAC region
- In depth knowledge of employee benefit withholding accounts
- Experience of building and maintaining strong control environment (risk excellence, experience with SOX, RCSA controls, etc.), establishing policies, procedures and strong internal controls
- Demonstrated leadership in improving/building-out the above process groups for multiple geographies and business areas
- Experience of leading re-engineering of R2R (record-to-report) processes and driving similar centralization of the end-to-end activities for the major financial institutions
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Visio)
- advance levels of Excel (pivot tables, formulas, excel workbook maintenance best practices)
- Knowledge of Hyperion Essbase
- Knowledge of Oracle Financials
- Payroll
- Tax for payroll & other internally developed products such as Cash manager
- Conceptual understanding of company-wide financial architecture (GL, sub-GL technology, specialized tools) applicable to the above process groups of processes
- Senior-level communication skills
- presentation skills
- prior experience of interacting with multiple stakeholders (Legal Entity and Geography controllers) in NA, EMEA, APAC
- Independent decision-making capabilities
- demonstrated thought leadership
- Pride of ownership with the ability to deliver high quality results timely
- Self-motivated, self-assured, and self-managed
- Strong attention to details
- Problem solving skill
- Highly organized with ability to multi-task and work under high pressure deadlines
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment
Desired Qualifications
- preferred Certified Public Accountant (CPA)/MBA Finance)
- Senior-level communication skills, presentation skills, prior experience of interacting with multiple stakeholders (Legal Entity and Geography controllers) in NA, EMEA, APAC
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