Reporting Accountant (Pune, India)
“Life Unlimited” At Smith + Nephew. We design and Manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.
The Reporting Accountant will be responsible for the delivery of effective and effective finance transactional, reporting processes and controls from a GBS centre as described in the S&N; Finance Record to Report (R2R) taxonomy and in line with the Group Finance Manual, Minimum Acceptable Practices (MAPs) and Sarbanes Oxley requirements.

What will you be doing?
• Ensure that accounting transactions are documented, in compliance with group standards and, where relevant, Sarbanes Oxley requirements (regular journal entries, understanding monthly and quarterly close calendars)
• Hands on experience in Indian accounting, managing Month end close, Balance sheet reconciliation and Balance Sheet reviews, Issue resolution.
• Ensures ledgers are ‘clean’ resolving aged open items, reconciling ‘differences’ and ensuring master data is maintained to high levels of quality and compliance, controls are executed and adhered to in line with Risk.




• Also ensure the Control Matrices (RACMs) (SOX & MAPs) and wider S&N; policies including the Group Finance Manual.
• Maintain SOPs to meet S&N; standard cycles. Highlight and challenge exceptions from global standards.
• Manage the requests from external and internal auditors, other advisors, and relevant country Authorities. Preparation of various details and completion of various Audits like Statutory/Internal/Tax/Transfer price Audit as per requirement.
• Should be able to highlight improvement opportunities in existing process and driving process improvement and standardization.
• Make suggestions for the future use of new tools and technology in the RTR domain and where approved, implement into the Service offering.

What will you need to be Successful?
• Education: B.Com / M.Com / MAB Finance.
• Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience in R2R domain.
• Relevant industry experience advantageous, id

📌 Reporting Accountant (Pune)
🏢 Smith+Nephew
📍 Pune