Senior Staff Accountant

Job Description

Essential Job Duties:

• Owning legal entities Trial Balance and working with local accountant and auditors in the finalization of Financial Statements.
• Preparation and review of monthly and quarterly financial packages for assigned entities and submitting to accounting firms.
• Work closely with onshore team, auditors and accounting firms including making calls.
• Preparing various reconciliations and reports to support audit of legal entities.
• Liaise with other towers in accounting like GL, RMS, FA, OTC, P2P etc. to collect various reports, supporting and reconciliations required for audit.
• Prepare and review income and balance sheet statements, consolidated statements and various other accounting reports. Make corrections as necessary.
• Independently handle the Open Items resolution with respect to Banks/Cash Items, Accruals, Prepayments, and other Current assets/Current Liabilities.
• Preparation of VAT/GST working and submit to Tax team or KPMG/EY.
• Reconcile the VAT accounts and post any reconciled items after approval.
• Working closely with tax team and accounting firms on CIT filing.
• Periodically review all accounts in TB and work on correction if needed.
• Ensuring Statutory dues, accounting and audit firm dues payments on time.
• Audit financial reports and records, making studies or recommendations related to the accounting of reserves, assets, revenue and expenditures. Make corrections as necessary.
• Conduct the primary accounting review of various financial statements and initiate any corrections.
• Do self-investigation on the appropriateness of the Balances in the accounts and report to appropriate authorities as they are necessary.
• Self-review the processes and bring some efficiency to make the processes standard on Par and best in Industry.
• Oversee the analysis and reconciliation of the general ledger reports. Close ledgers and generate monthly financial statements and supporting schedules.
• Work with other towers in accounting like GL, RMS, FA, OTC, P2P to resolve issues or open items timely.
• Obtain revenue and assets acquisition information then review, consolidate and summarize it for reporting purposes.
• Perform complex numerical calculations requiring thorough understanding of applicable procedures and/or requirements.
• Coordinate accounting matters with other departments, locations and divisions to resolve reconciling items and technical accounting issues.
• Completes various accounting projects as needed.
• Perform general administrative functions when needed, including answering phones, typing correspondence, copying, etc.

Responsibilities

Skills, Education, and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent experience/Masters’ Degree in Accounting / Finance.
• Minimum of 6 - 10 years of previous accounting experience.
• Must be familiar proficient with PC applications such as MS Office with MS-Excel and MS-Word.
• Proficiency in Global ERPs tools specially in Oracle R12.
• Be capable of self-investigating the Accounting Issues that may come up time to time in the assigned roles.
• Experience with computerized accounting systems a plus.