Job Summary The role is responsible for managing a team of 10 to 15 Accountants and Analysts dedicated to the financial management of all SITA entities within the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. In addition, the GEO Senior Manager Accounting APAC acts as the SITA Group process owner of external reporting activities across all geographies.

Responsibilities

- Act as manager of the APAC accounting and reporting team composed of 10-15 Accountants and Analysts located in different countries.

- Coordinate the completion of month-end, quarter-end and year-end SITA Group General Ledger closing activities for SITA APAC entities in collaboration with the SITA Group process owner of General Accounting activities.

- Ensure that accounting reconciliations are properly done and provide reporting for areas of responsibility to the SITA Financial Control management.

- Ensure compliance with SITA Group accounting policies and internal control procedures and guidelines.

- Provide guidance to business partners in accounting practices and provide advices for various accounting items.

- Ensure the completion of the filing and accuracy of SITA APAC local financial statements, VAT returns, corporate income tax returns and any other local financial reporting activities.

- Ensure compliance of local financial reporting with local regulation.

- Provision of audit documentation for external audit and internal audit.

- Escalate and resolve issues and inefficiencies with external auditors.

- Supervise local accounting activities for entities with separate local accounting process and ensure reconciliation with SITA Group General Ledger.

- Coordinate with SITA APAC Tax team on all tax-specific topics.

- Assist in managing process improvements and in delivering department project initiatives.





- Ensure consistency of processes with other SITA geographies through regular alignment with other GEO Senior Managers.

- Act as SITA Group process owner for local reporting activities across all SITA geographies.

- This includes: Management and enhancement of processes, activities and controls to be put in place by the 4 SITA geographies.

- Identify and ensure maintenance of the SITA reporting tool for local reporting.

- Act as SITA SPOC with SITA Group auditor for defining the process and audit timeline of all SITA entities covered by Group auditor.

- Maintain SITA local reporting template for all IFRS-based financial statements in collaboration with SITA Group IFRS Expert.

- Resolve local audit process inefficiencies with Group auditor.

- Regularly report financial reporting status to SITA top management.

Experience

- At least 8 years of work experience in an accounting and audit environment preferably within a medium to large international company with a matrix business structure (Big 4 or shared service center).

- Experience with local financial reporting practice within several countries of the APAC region.

- Significant experience in successfully managing a medium size team of accountants and analysts with the ability to provide direction to meet finance objectives.

- Experience in managing the audit process for a medium size multinational organization;-

- Prior experience in change management is an advantage.

- Experience in implementing financial systems is desirable.





- Experience of preparing and delivering effective presentations to middle and senior management.

Knowledge Skills

- Languages: Fluent in English.

- Good knowledge of accounting and reporting tools (Oracle, Onestream, Anaplan) and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PPT).

- Valuable knowledge of IFRS standards.

Professional Competencies

- Attention to Detail

- Business Acumen

- Financial Acumen

- Info GatheringProcessing

- Quality Control

- Reporting

- Risk Analysis

Core Competencies

- Adhering to Principles Values

- Communication

- Creating Innovating

- Customer Focus

- Developing Talent

- Impact Influence

- Leading Execution

- Managing Performance

- Results Orientation

- Teamwork

Education Qualifications

- University Degree in Accounting and Finance

- Professional accounting qualification (e.g.

Certified Public Accountant

Association of Chartered Accountants Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Chartered Institute of Management Accountants )

- Project and Change Management training is an advantage

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Role: Accounts Manager,

Industry Type: Defence & Aerospace,

Department: Finance & Accounting,

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: Accounting & Taxation

Education

UG: Any Graduate

PG: Any Postgraduate

Key Skills accountantaccountingaccounting and reportingaudit documentationchange managementcompliancecontrol managementcorporate income taxexternal auditexternal reportingfinancefinancial managementfinancial reporting

📌 Sr Manager Accounting (Mumbai)
🏢 SITA
📍 Mumbai