Role & responsibilities:

- Execute accounting transition and onboarding activities for new AFS clients, focused on speed, accuracy, quality, and consistency

- Review current-state accounting processes, opening balances, chart of accounts, close activities, reconciliations, reporting requirements, and key operational dependencies

- Support accounting data migration and conversion, including chart of accounts mapping, opening balance validation, and reconciliation of migrated data

- Establish client accounting routines, close calendars, recurring activities, reporting requirements, and transition documentation aligned with defined playbooks

- Apply standard accounting practices across general ledger, journal entries, accruals, month end close, reconciliations, AP, AR, cash, fixed assets, prepaids, and financial reporting

- Support transition testing, accounting readiness validation, issue resolution, go-live preparation, and handoff to steady-state managed services

- Operate across QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and similar accounting platforms to support client onboarding and managed services delivery

- Work with third-party accounting applications such as Bill.com, Ramp, and Expensify, and use approved AI-enabled tools to improve accounting delivery

- Partner with US transition, industry,



and managed services teams to align onboarding activities, timelines, client expectations, risks, and delivery requirements

- Coordinate with accounting, systems, payroll, tax, and other functional teams to resolve dependencies and readiness issues and proactively escalate risks and issues

Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field, with strong documentation, problem-solving, communication, and global team collaboration skills;

- 3+ years of accounting experience, including experience in managed services, outsourced accounting, or finance operations environments

- Demonstrated experience supporting new client transition and onboarding into a managed services or outsourced accounting operating model,

- Solid knowledge of standard accounting practices, including month-end close, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash, and financial reporting

- Operational working knowledge of QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Sage Intacct

- Experience supporting accounting data migration, opening balance validation, chart of accounts mapping, transition readiness activities, developing or executing accounting SOPs, close calendars, reconciliation standards, and client handoff documentation.

📌 Accounting Transition - Senior Associate (Bengaluru)
🏢 Baker Tilly
📍 Bengaluru