Assistant Manager – Finance & Accounts
Job Purpose
The purpose of this job is to provide strong support in areas like day-to-day accounting, month-end activities, reporting, etc. to a US-based client
Duties and responsibilities
- Monthly Submission of MIS Reports to Management and Banks
- Prepare financial statements such as monthly and annual accounts
- Prepare financial management reports including planning and forecasting
- Ensure timely closure of monthly closing activities.
- Ensure monthly and quarterly deliverables on timely basis like vendor reconciliation Ensure setting up of the internal control policies and adherence of policies
- Meet defined department goals and activity metrics
- Balance Reconciliations
- Preparation of Cash Flow & Funds Flow Statement.
- Posting the monthly and yearly provisional entries.
- Reconciliation of Sundry Debtors and Sundry Creditors statements
- Balance Reconciliations. Responsible for overall accounting function general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and asset management.
- Monthly Closing of accounts and preparation of MIS, P&L, Balance sheets etc.
- Responsible for the Credit Management monthly cycle – Call clients for due, overdue items; Establish and maintain accounts relationships with the clients
- Monitor customer account details and identify and investigate non payments, delayed payments and reconcile gaps in payment and collection systems/records;
- Analyze the credit terms to be assigned to the new clients and new credit rating/terms for the existing clients
- Take ownership in getting business inputs for key P&L and Balance Sheet items
Qualifications/Skills
- CA /M.Com/MBA with 6 to 9 yrs of experience in Accounting, Finance Reporting etc.
- Strong US accounting knowledge
- Solid team management skills with ability to guide/mentor multiple junior associates
- Strong Financial Modelling skills with ability to build Budgets, Forecasts/Projections
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experience in ERP systems like SAGE 500 and QuickBooks would be preferred
- Exposure to Business Intelligence tools like PowerBI would be a plus
- Should show confidence and prowess to interact with top management of the client with ability to ask the right questions and add value to the deliverables
- Should be dynamic and ready to face challenging situations especially during month end
Working conditions
- Should be able to work in shifts, supporting clients in US time zones
- Work location is in Udupi
Reports to
Individual Contributor with potential to have associates as direct reports