What youll need to succeed as an Accounting Manager at XPO

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree

- Mandatory CA

- 7 years of combination public accounting/industry experience

- 2-3+ years of direct people management and mentorship experience

- Proficinecy with Microsoft Office tools, including advanced Excel skills with the ability to create pivot tables, use VLOOKUP as well as other analytical functions

Highly Preferred qualifications:

- Initially experience working in Big4, followed by experience working for a large, national publicly traded company.

Experience in freight, transporation, or logistics industries a plus.

- Must have experience in local Statuory annual audit, account recolinaction, external audit SOX compliance

- Experience in ERP Systems and related systems such as Oracle, SAP , Excel, HFM, Blackline, Coupa, MRI Horizon (Prolease Enterprise) and Oracle Close Manager

- Solid analytical and organization skills

- Strong communication skills

- Comfortable prioritizing multiple work streams across daily responsibilities and long-term projects

- Must be team oriented; enjoys working with colleagues at all levels of the organization

What you’ll do on a typical day:

- Hands-on manager responsible for many aspects of accounting, reporting, and compliance, including but not limited to: facilitation of the end-to-end process of the financial close, preparing and reviewing journal entries,



account reconciliations, and trend/flux analysis during month end close.

- Supervise, train and develop senior and staff accountants on various accounting concepts and best practices

- Prepare/review requests from external and internal auditors, prepare/review technical accounting memos, among others

- Lead process documentation and enhancement efforts

- Actively partner with Finance, Operations and other department collegues to perform required monthly controls and analysis, and build effective processes.

- Provide support to accounting/finance management and internal customers as needs arise, including ad-hoc projects

- Drive monthly, quarterly, and annual book closure activities, ensuring timely completion of close processes and accurate financial reporting.

- Oversee general ledger accounting, including balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany accounting, accruals, prepayments, and analysis of variances.

- Lead and manage general accounting operations, ensuring accurate and timely recording of financial transactions in accordance with applicable accounting standards and company policies.

- Strong understanding of general accounting, journal entries, account reconciliations, and month-end/quarter-end close processes.

- Hands-on experience with US GAAP accounting

- Understating the differences between US GAAP and IFRS.

📌 Accounting Manager (Pune)
🏢 XPO INDIA SHARED SERVICES
📍 Pune