Role & responsibilities:
Execute accounting transition and onboarding activities for recent AFS clients, focused on speed, accuracy, quality, and consistency
Review current-state accounting processes, opening balances, chart of accounts, close activities, reconciliations, reporting requirements, and key operational dependencies
Support accounting data migration and conversion activities, including chart of accounts mapping, opening balance validation, and reconciliation of migrated data
Establish client accounting routines, close calendars, recurring activities, reporting requirements, and transition documentation aligned with defined playbooks
Support transition testing, accounting readiness validation, issue resolution, and go-live preparation
Apply standard accounting practices across general ledger, journal entries, accruals, month-end close, reconciliations, AP, AR, cash, and financial reporting.
Establish and document repeatable client accounting processes, SOPs, close calendars, reconciliation standards, and reporting deliverables.
Validate accounting operational readiness and ensure transition gaps,



exceptions, and unresolved items are documented and escalated.
Operate across QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and support accounting system setup, data migration, and chart of accounts mapping.
Partner with US transition and managed services teams to resolve dependencies and ensure successful onboarding and handoff to steady-state delivery.

Qualification:
Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA, CA, CMA, or equivalent certification preferred.
5+ years of accounting experience in managed services, outsourced accounting, or finance operations.
Experience supporting client transition and onboarding within a managed services or outsourced accounting model.
Robust knowledge of month-end close, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, AP, AR, cash management, and financial reporting.
Working knowledge of QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and accounting data migration activities.

📌 Senior Associate Accounting Transition & Managed Services Bengaluru
🏢 Baker Tilly
📍 Bengaluru