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 setting. This team collaborates globally to deliver expert accounting, reporting & advisory services, and financial risk control & governance, while supporting business growth & protecting shareholder value Responsible for management & governance of monthly accounting for legal entities.

Responsibilities

- Responsible for management & governance of monthly accounting for legal entities

- Managing end-to-end responsibility of one of the non-banking legal entities

- Monthly review of financials to provide critical inputs to entity controller on various cost analytics and services fee charge-out

- Analysis of Legal Entity Results, identification of anomalies during close

- Identify opportunities to standardize, improve and automate existing processes within/across teams.

- Plan/coordinate with various stakeholders to execute process improvement opportunities.

- Partners with various groups to identify and leverage best practices.

- Manage & govern various regulatory filings and compliances.

- Compliance with prevailing policies & procedures etc.

- Monthly/Quarterly update to Legal Governance Committee / Board members and ensuring all regulatory compliances.

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

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

- Provide end to end support for the legal entity statutory / internal / other audits including discussion with auditors and drive closure of Internal and External Audit of Local as well as US GAAP ledgers

- Coordinate with GFO/GBS functions to provide external audit support, including Reconciliations, Accounting and Payment Operations, plus World Services Cashiers as appropriate





Responsibilities: Critical Factors to Success:

Business Outcomes:

- Own & maintain financial/data integrity

- Stay relevant to the business/functional requirements

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

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.

Qualifications

Past Experience:

- CA/CPA with 1+years of experience or MBA with 3 + years of experience or M Com with 7 + years of experience.

Functional Skills/Capabilities:

- Strong understanding of end-to-end accounting, basic understanding of reporting
- Understanding of financial consolidation process
- Ability to research and embed relevant best practices

Technical Skills/Capabilities:

- Knowledge of financial systems – Oracle, OBI etc, Advanced MS office suits such as Excel, Word, Power-point
- Strong IGAAP/IND AS knowledge and awareness of US GAAP (Accounting knowledge)
- Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis
- Working knowledge of automation tools like Tableau, Python, Natural Language Generation [NLG], Machine Learning Studio [MLS] etc. would be an added advantage

Behavioral Skills/Capabilities: Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

- Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
- Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
- Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

📌 Financial Analyst (Gurugram)
🏢 American Express
📍 Gurugram