Financial Reporting & Reconciliations:

- Booking journal entries (manual, recurring, reclasses)
- Monthly/quarterly accruals & reversals
- Fixed asset additions & depreciation
- Expense support, recoupment, and reconciliations
- Trial balance maintenance and topside entry loading
- Intercompany reconciliations and blocker entity TB rollforwards
- Managing unsecured notes, equity activity, and ATM issuances

Budgeting, Forecasting & Variance Analysis:

- Comparing budget vs. actuals and analyzing variances
- Adjusting budgets using billed/unbilled data, invoices, and models
- Finalizing monthly/quarterly/annual expense fluctuations
- Rolling forward G&A; budgets and accrual WPs
- Ownership of budgeting and forecasting for corporate and fund entities

Reporting, Compliance & Stakeholder Coordination:

- Preparing financial statement disclosures (e.g., affiliates, tax, gains)
- Ensuring MoM and QoQ flux reasonableness
- Coordinating with AP, Tax, FP&A;, and Audit teams
- Ensuring completeness and accuracy of financial data across systems




- Reconciling cash accounts and providing lead sheets
- Maintaining documentation (bank recs, reports, trackers)
- Supporting external audit and compliance processes

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of post-qualification experience in Corporate Accounting, Financial Reporting, Fund Accounting, or General Ledger Accounting.
- Robust understanding of accounting principles and financial statement preparation.
- Experience with month-end and quarter-end close processes.
- Hands-on experience performing account reconciliations, journal entries, and accrual accounting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, and financial analysis functions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet strict reporting deadlines.

📌 Senior Analyst - Ares Corporate Accounting (India)
🏢 ThoughtFocus
📍 India