Manager - General Ledger - Big4 - CA

This position is part of Big 4 Finance Team in General Ledger and reports into Associate Director. This position serves a critical finance role in managing Internal/Statutory and Tax and all Audits including IFRS Financials. The primary responsibility will be maintaining books of account and managing statutory and all audits. Key focus will be ensuring compilation of statutory Accounts, working with accounting teams to identify any issues and help resolve, provide guidance and templates for financials to be submitted, Audits of all entities, analysis of financials and preparing highlights memo to the Board.

This person will work closely with other members of the Finance and accounting teams to collaborate the various deliverable for audits and compliances.

Job Responsibilities

- Plan year end close, Liaise and agree Board meeting dates, audit sign off dates and provide detailed checklist to finance/other teams

- Field audit Plan and schedule

- Audit of Statutory and IFRS

- Understand IFRS/Statutory Audit provisions and identify gaps to address

- Maintain /Standardise chart of accounts, glossary, documenting the type of activity posted to each general ledger account

- Ensure consistent mapping of various GL Accounts to the proper corporate GL Account

- Compile and communicate close calendars to all stakeholders in advance.

- Recommend and assist in the implementation of improvements as appropriate, to simplify, standardize and streamline existing processes related to accounting, reporting and Audits.

- Provide Tax scrutiny and other GL Support to Tax and other Finance teams

- Ensure all the sub-functions of finance AP, AR, Payroll, TAX are engaged collaboratively to ensure accounts are maintained current and clean.

- Preparation of monthly financial statements for management reporting

- Analysis of monthly profit and loss and balance sheet variances

- Analysis and circulation of management reports

- Responsible for the smooth closure of monthly & yearly statutory and management books

- Coordination with service line functions for month end related activities

- Preparation and review for various audits.

- Monitoring and review of inter-company reconciliations

- Review of open purchase orders and take appropriate remedial actions

Required skills

- Strong Accounting, Audit and reporting experience

- Applicable IFRS provisions and Statutory Audit requirements

Experience : Chartered Accountant with 8+ years of experience

Qualification - CA is mandatory.