Job Details

This role is responsible for ensuring General Ledger transactions for the entities within the scope of India Finance Shared Services Center (FSSC) are captured and reported accurately and timely in the company’s financial statements in accordance to US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

Maintains ledger accounts entities that are covered by the India Finance Shared Services Center (FSSC) – including:

• updating and maintaining GL accounts for US GAAP & Statutory reporting
• timely and accurate monthly balance sheet account reconciliations in Blackline
• timely analysis, identification, communication and resolution of balance sheet account reconciliation issues
• prepares journal entries to general ledger
• Prepares Prepayment schedule and reconciles
• Prepares various monthly accruals and reconciles
• assures documents being processed are included in the appropriate accounting period
• analyzes and verifies internal consistency, completeness, and arithmetic accuracy of accounting documents
• analyzes and researches and corrects issues related to accounting
• communicates issues with errors, procedure violations and discrepancies with all levels of management
• Ad hoc requests from GL and RTR manager

Month-end closing activities including:

• responsible for submitting monthly reporting to Corporate (M’s and Q’s) as per Bio-Rad policies and procedures
• updates and maintains month-end/quarter-end/year-end closing schedules
• Performs balance sheet and income statement account analyses and actual versus budget comparisons to determine if there are missing entries or significant variances that require further explanations.
• processes accruals during month-end close
• assists in preparation of QVRs on a quarterly basis
• Assists for responding to any questionnaires from corporate

Internal controls including:

• Assists in internal control reviews for assigned control objectives required by Sarbanes-Oxley
• Assists in internal and external audit requests – before, during and after – as well as the completion of audit-required analyses.
• Assists in answering auditing questions and resolves auditing issues.
• Ensures compliance with applicable Corporate Policies and Procedures

Works on unique and critical projects and problems including:

• Assists in special projects and requests involving general accounting systems
• support the migration of local in-country month end close process into the Shared Service Centre (Knowledge Transfer / Go-Live)
• Collaborate with other finance functions like Reporting, SAP, FP&A, tax, etc to deliver process improvement

What You Bring:

• Chartered Accountant, CPA, ACCA, Cost Accountant or equivalent degree in accounting and Finance
• 3-5 years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Finance SSC Experience in large multinational company with a high volume, performance driven environment
• Large ERP System Experience – SAP & Hyperion preferred
• Experience in Blackline will be added advantage
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills for interacting with individual team contributors, business partners, and senior management.
• Strong knowledge of internal controls and US GAAP accounting required.
• Strong analytical and problem solving background.
• Experience in process and project management skills.
• Experience in process redesign and/or efficiency
• Innovative and able to think both analytically and conceptually.
• Fluent (both orally and in writing) in English