Assistant Manager | Financial Reporting & Accounting Controls

Location: Bangalore, India

Function: Finance & Accounting

Availability : Immediate

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced finance professional to join our Accounting & Controls team as an Assistant Manager in Financial Reporting & Accounting Controls.

This role offers an opportunity to take ownership of financial reporting and accounting controls for multiple legal entities, ensuring accuracy, compliance and strong financial governance.

You will play a key role in reviewing Trial Balances, Balance Sheet accounts and P&L; results, supporting month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities, and partnering with Group Reporting, business finance stakeholders and shared services teams to deliver accurate and timely financial results.

Key Responsibilities

- Financial Reporting & Month-End Close: Review entity Trial Balances during month-end, quarter-end and year-end close, investigate unusual movements, accounting misclassifications and outstanding items, and ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Balance Sheet Governance: Review and manage Balance Sheet General Ledger accounts, ensuring timely reconciliations, account substantiation, ageing analysis and movement explanations.
- P&L; Review & Analysis: Analyse financial results, validate accruals and reclassifications, investigate material variances and provide meaningful financial commentary to P&L; owners.
- Group Reporting: Act as a key finance contact for Group Reporting, supporting reporting submissions, schedules, financial analysis and resolution of reporting queries.
- Audit Management: Coordinate external audit activities for assigned entities, including reviewing audit evidence, addressing auditor queries and ensuring timely closure of audit findings.
- Accounting Operations Oversight: Review accounting outputs from shared services and process teams covering Record-to-Report (R2R), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Intercompany and Fixed Assets.




- Financial Controls & Compliance: Identify control gaps, drive root-cause analysis, implement corrective actions and support continuous improvement in accounting processes.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Group Reporting, P&L; owners, process operations, external auditors and cross-functional finance teams to ensure effective financial governance.

Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Group Reporting or Accounting & Controls.
- Strong hands-on experience in Trial Balance review, Balance Sheet reconciliations and control, and P&L; analysis.
- Good understanding of IFRS, accounting standards, financial controls and external audit requirements.
- Experience reviewing General Ledger reconciliations, journal entries, accounting schedules and financial commentary.
- Experience supporting month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial close processes.
- Exposure to shared services, Global Business Services (GBS) or finance process operations environments.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to investigate financial variances, identify accounting issues and drive resolution.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders and deliver within tight reporting deadlines.

Educational Qualifications
- CA / CPA / ACCA / CIMA / MBA (Finance) preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related discipline is required.

What Success Looks Like
- Accurate and timely financial reporting and group submissions.
- Well-substantiated Balance Sheet accounts with strong reconciliation discipline.
- Meaningful P&L; analysis and explicit variance commentary.
- Smooth external audit coordination and timely closure of audit queries.
- Strong accounting compliance, effective financial controls and continuous process improvement.

Interested in taking the next step in your finance career? Apply now or reach out to learn more about this opportunity.

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