Position Summary:
The Finance Analyst will be responsible for executing day-to-day finance operations for Costcos India GCC, including accounts payable, expense claims, payroll support, statutory payments, reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, and financial record maintenance. This is a hands-on role that requires accuracy, timeliness, and solid operational discipline while supporting the Finance Manager on tax, audit, compliance, and regulatory activities. The successful candidate will help ensure finance processes remain compliant, efficient, and scalable, while being cross trained across key finance and compliance activities to support business continuity and the GCCs growth
Job Duties/Essential Functions:
Accounts Payable & Expense Processing:
- Review and verify GCC vendor invoices for accuracy and policy compliance; coordinate with vendors to resolve invoice discrepancies
- Process vendor invoices in the accounting system, obtain required payment approvals in accordance with the GCC Procurement Policy and initiate vendor payments through approved banking channels
- Review and process employee expense claims in accordance with GCC policies, apply policy-based approval or rejection decisions following manager authorization and ensure timely reimbursement of approved claims
Payroll & Statutory Payments:
- Receive salary inputs from HR Operations, review and submit payroll inputs to the payroll provider, verify payroll outputs, and account for payroll expenses
- Manage payroll tax compliance, including tax calculations, remittances, statutory returns, and related filings
- Collate statutory payment inputs, verify and account for transactions,
obtain required approvals, process statutory payments, and maintain records in accordance with applicable regulations and Costcos record-retention policy
Month-End Close & Reconciliations (Support):
- Execute month-end and period-end close activities in the accounting system and support revenue computation and intercompany invoicing
- Prepare account reconciliations in line with the reconciliation calendar; support HQ-GAAP adjustment postings in the secondary books
Fixed Assets:
- Capitalize fixed assets against invoices/GRN/PO per policy, maintains the fixed-asset register in secondary books, record monthly depreciation and execute asset tagging activities
- Coordinate physical verification of fixed assets with the appointed service provider (where engaged) and prepare the report
Tax, Audit & Secretarial Support:
- Prepare inputs for TDS quarterly returns and upload on the portal; download and share TDS certificates with stakeholders
- Support GST compliance activities, including recoverable GST calculations, withhold taxes and return-filing inputs
- Compile and share auditor / tax-authority / board documentation with Costco (English versions); support manager to prepare audit and tax-audit schedules
- Supports secretarial compliance activities,
including board-meeting coordination, minutes documentation and annual-return information preparation
Treasury & Banking Support:
- Support fund-requirement forecasting and day-to-day banking activities and correspondence; assist with FEMA/foreign-exchange (including any applicable export-realization/Softex) and bank-confirmation tracking
FP&A; Support:
- Support budget collation and monthly budget-vs-actuals reporting; assist with headcount reporting
Non-Essential Functions:
- Responsible for continued personal growth in the areas of technology, business knowledge and company policies and platforms
- Assists in other areas of the department as necessary
Qualifications & Skills:
Required:
- CA / CMA / MBA-Finance / M. Com with 46 years of experience in finance operations, accounting or tax, preferably within a GCC / shared-services or multinational environment
- Hands-on experience in AP, expense processing, payroll accounting, statutory payments, month-end close support and reconciliations
- Working knowledge of Indian statutory requirements - TDS, GST and payroll-related compliance
- Strong accuracy, attention to detail and comfort with high-volume transactional processing to deadline
- Good communication skills and the collaborative mindset to cross-cover the compliance core within lean team
Recommended:
- Exposure to dual-book environments where local books are aligned to an HQ reporting GAAP
- Prior experience in a captive/GCC or Big-4-managed finance operation
- Proficiency in Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Slides, Gmail) and accounting/ERP tools
📌 Finance Analyst (India)
🏢 Costco
📍 India