- Month-End/Year-End Closure: Prioritize candidates with hands-on experience in month-end and year-end book closure, General Ledger (GL)/Trial Balance (TB) review, and passing closure and adjustment entries.
- Ind-AS Expertise: Practical, hands-on experience with Ind-AS accounting is mandatory. Avoid candidates with exposure limited to US GAAP, IFRS, or other GAAP frameworks, as well as those with only theoretical knowledge or Ind-AS certifications.
- Financial Statement Preparation: Candidates must have been directly involved in preparing standalone and/or consolidated financial statements, rather than handling only financial reporting or MIS activities.
- ERP Exposure: SAP experience is strongly preferred.
Candidates with Oracle or other comparable enterprise ERP experience may be considered if they demonstrate robust technical accounting and closure expertise.
- Audit & Compliance: Look for experience in statutory and/or internal audit closure, preparation of audit schedules and workpapers, and coordination with external and internal auditors.
- Additional Skills: Exposure to GST, TDS, account reconciliations, MIS preparation, and Advanced Excel will be preferred.
- Educational Qualifications: Target CA Inter/Semi-qualified CA, MBA Finance, M.Com, and B.Com candidates. Do not consider fully qualified Chartered Accountants (CAs).
Preferred candidate profile -Commerce graduate with hands on experience in F&A;