Controllership Associate

Skill required: Controllership - Venture Financing
Designation: Controllership Associate
Qualifications:BCom
Years of Experience:1 to 3 years
About Accenture
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What would you do? CF Operations
Controllership refers to the management and oversight of an organizations financial reporting and accounting functions. This includes ensuring accurate financial records, compliance with regulations, budgeting, and financial analysis. The goal is to provide reliable financial information to support decision-making and maintain financial integrity.
Venture Capital (VC) Financing is the process of raising funding for high-growth potential startups and early-stage businesses, and involves investors providing capital to these ventures in exchange for an ownership stake or equity. This funding is typically used to fuel growth, expand operations, develop products or services, and achieve milestones.
What are we looking for? •Collaboration and interpersonal skills
•Agility for quick learning
•Adaptable and flexible
Roles and Responsibilities: •Job Title:
Ventures & Acquisitions (V&A) Controllership Analyst


Responsibilities:
• Providing support to prepare Reconciliation of various acquired entities on to BlackLine reconciliation tool (About 10 to 30% of the time)
Assisting to the successful finance integration arising from Ventures and Acquisitions activity: (About 70% of the time)

• Responsible and assisting in providing Finance support globally across Accenture locations and countries impacted by V&A activity.
• Help manage the transition to SAP through ensuring requirements of the business operating model are met and assisting the affiliate accounting process through the post-close, pre-SAP cutover time period
• Work with integration, tax and controllership teams to ensure efficient integration of back office operations of acquired entities into Accenture standard practices
• Assisting in Reconciliation of statutory financial statements to US GAAP opening balance sheet and affiliate accounting for acquired entities
• Provide finance / controllership support to local legal teams on liquidation of acquired entities
• Preparation of financial statements of acquired entities for independent audit
• Create standardised process through working on existing and upcoming acquisitions.
• Ensure data retention compliance


Skills:
• Ability to work collaboratively across Finance organisation to achieve results
• In-depth knowledge of General Ledger principles, policies and procedures
• Strong technical accounting knowledge around acquisition accounting
• Strong communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills
• Strong ownership mentality with initiative and high quality work standard
• Strong problem solving skills with ability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively - reliable with "can do" attitude
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access) and experience with financial management systems and office automation applications
• Project management
• SAP financials
• Blackline Reconciliation Tool
• Fluency in English


Qualifications and Experience:
Professional accountancy qualification, preferably B.com / MBA
• 2+ years of progressive financial accounting experience
• Statutory accounts preparation experience
• Experience working with SAP Financials an advantage

BCom

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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