Description

Finance is a collaborative team, playing a key role in advising all areas of the business. We have a strategic seat at the table and our unique insights are valued in a highly competitive marketplace and increasingly complex global regulatory environment.

This team collaborates globally to deliver expert accounting, reporting & advisory services, and financial risk control & governance, while supporting business growth & protecting shareholder value.

Responsibilities

Responsible for managing monthly accounting for various legal entities ensuring monthly journal entry (MJE) protocol to meet compliance, completeness & accuracy standards.

- -Responsible for compliance with internal service level agreements (SLA), guidelines and accounting policies and regulatory requirements of the process

- -Deploy internal accounting & external reporting implications of new & amended accounting standards

- -Support / participate in standardization, automation and continuous improvement initiatives as well as other business partner initiatives

- -Maintain high accuracy and productivity standards

- -Awareness of the AXP Legal and alternate hierarchies, accounting close governance & consolidations

- -Maintain close contact with customer / business partners and other interface groups to ensure a smooth service delivery

- -Stakeholder relationship management

- -Ensure controls & compliance with prevailing policies & procedures such as SOX, Process Risk Self Assessment (PRSA), etc.

- -Ensure that all deadlines are continually met and adequate controls are maintained over the processes to ensure integrity of the information

- -Ability to work across multiple time zones

- -Leading accounting & reporting financial processes as per the aligned SLA’s for creation of complete & accurate financial statements

Qualifications

Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

Business Outcomes:

Own & maintain financial/data integrity while managing end-to-end global accounting processes





- Stay relevant to the business/functional requirements

- Pro-actively develop meaningful data insights/trends to enable finance decision support to our customer’s/business partners for more effective planning & forecasting activities.

- Understand & leverage intelligent automation technologies to generate use cases within the team & create opportunities to support the automation team to get that implemented .

- Ensure first pass yield

- Leadership Outcomes:Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.

- Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings

- Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity

- Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day

Skills/Capabilities:

Functional:

- Strong understanding of end-to-end AR/AP process flow, accounting & reconciliation

- Basic understanding of reporting

- Ability to connect accounting & reporting

- Understanding of financial consolidation process

- Understanding of operational, SOX & other related control framework compliance

- Ability to research & embed relevant best practices

Technical:

Awareness of US GAAP/Local GAAP/IFRS (Accounting knowledge)

- Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis

- Knowledge of financial systems Preferred

- Basic understanding & appreciation of automation capabilities

- Understanding of business products

Platforms:

Advanced MS office suits such as Excel, Word, Power point Preferred:

Ability to use analytical tools for financial systems such as Oracle, IRIS, OBIEE, Essbase, Hyperion Financial Reporting (HFR), etc.

Academic Background:

Graduate / Post-Graduate in Commerce with 1-2 years of relevant experience

Past Experience:1-2 years of past experience in financial accounting domain with knowledge of Oracle/ERP, card business model.

- Robust English Language skills (both written and verbal)

📌 Financial Analyst (Bengaluru Urban)
🏢 American Express
📍 Bengaluru Urban