Senior Accountant

Job description

About the role

• This is a Senior Accountant role within our International Accounting organization in Bangalore, India. This position will be part of our International Accounting team supporting Rubrik India U.S. GAAP accounting. This position will require strong accounting skills, the ability to effectively partner with team members around the world, execute and maintain accounting principles and company policies, strong change management skills, and ability to drive issues through to resolution and validation.

What you'll be doing

• Own and drive the month and quarter-end USGAAP Close processes and related responsibilities for the accounting department.
• Accurate and timely execution of month-end close process to ensure timely and accurate US GAAP reporting.
• Work closely with the corporate accounting team to ensure smooth monthly book closure.
• Assess risks over accounts and areas of responsibility. Apply judgment to ensure that financial integrity of accounting entries, accruals, and account reconciliations are intact and operating effectively.
• Prepare journal entries and maintain account reconciliations consistent with GAAP and corporate accounting policies to ensure close timelines are met.
• Prepare and maintain reports / schedules for management, prepare schedules requested by internal and external auditors.
• Research and document company position on technical accounting issues with the ability to effectively communicate and present to business partners, prepare course of action by various team to collaborate and address risks/issues
• Support compliance and improve processes and internal controls in the area of responsibility, implementing simple workflows where needed
• Implement and maintain the required process and internal control environment, and perform control procedures to ensure subsidiaries are complying with Company policy. Candidate will need experience in internal control framework (SOX) of the organization
• Stay current on evolving Accounting Standards pronouncements
• Apply professional skepticism and an inquisitive approach to review and analyze the appropriateness and reasonableness of underlying accounting principles followed for USGAAP accounting and help local statutory accountants with audit requests.
• Work closely with the entire CAO organization to ensure effective compliance with policies and procedures.

Experience you'll need

• Degree in Accountancy, with CA/CPA/CWA/CMA qualification and 4-8 yrs of working experience in accounting and book close process.
• Experience in prepaid, accruals, FA accounting, intercompany accounting, commission accounting, lease accounting, payroll accounting, reconciliation, fluxes and process documentation is expected.
• In-depth understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) and IFRS
• Analytical thinker who can identify and implement effective processes improvements
• Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process. Public accounting or large public company experiences and Software industry experiences are a plus.
• Proficiency with accounting software and experience with a software system –preferably experience in Netsuite. Reconciliation tools such as Blackline and Floqast.
• Ability to analyze financial records and interpret in simple terms to other stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail, excellent organizational and multitasking skills, strong written and oral communication skills

Skills Required
Accountant, Cpa, Cma, CWA, USGAAP, Ifrs