GL Accountant

Job Posting Title: General Ledger - Accountant

Job Description

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?
Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a General Ledger - Accountant to join our APAC Finance function at our Hyderabad, Telangana. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Life Sciences function. This position will report to Manager.
 

The GL Accountant is responsible for:   

• Check and post General Ledger journal entries to ensure the proper and accurate booking in compliance with group and local accounting policies, e.g., expense accruals, prepayment amortization, etc.
• Calculate and maintain transfer price, IC mark up and standard cost in ERP system in line with company policies.
• Tracking GP% on a weekly basis to ensure entity level bookings are done properly
• Perform monthly, quarterly, and yearly close process, ensuring that trial balance is well maintained and closed out, e.g., follow up and trace breakdown of key P&L and B/S accounts, work with the team to solve the problems if any, prepare FAS109 package for deferred tax calculation, etc.
• Prepare monthly account reconciliation and ensure proper follow-up, including analyze expense accrual and amortization balances, follow up long aging items, etc.
• Prepare Monthly and quarterly flux analysis and other reporting under SOX.
• Prepare financial statements and reports, as per local requirements. Keep record of the GAAP differences and provide other statistical reports under the local requirement.
• Accounting records maintenance and filing of Tax returns of Direct and Indirect on timely manner.
• Assist to implement and improve the internal control procedure.
• Support internal and external audit and assist in implementing action items as a result of audit findings.
• Supporting to other members AP,AR,Managers/Controllers and treasury etc. when and need.
• Any other Ad-hoc tasks assigned by line Manager.

Education/Experience:

• Experience: Minimum of 6-8 years of relevant financial experience in a multinational environment or shared services center.
• CA/Post graduate degree majored in Finance or Accounting.
• SAP system experience to work upon GL activities.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Good verbal and written communication in English
• Knowledge of Chinese language – for smooth interaction with Chinese colleagues, on need basis.
• Detailed and result oriented
• Dedicated & positive thinking
• Ability to quickly become independent and work under minimal supervision.
• Attention to detail, well-organized, result oriented, quick learner, priority setting,
• Local business managers in Sales/Marketing, Supply chain, etc.
• GBS teams
• Global stakeholders – US finance teams.
• Auditors – external and internal.
• Internal Finance team members.

Expected Behaviors

• Attention to detail,
• well-organized,
• Result oriented,
• Quick learner,
• Priority setting.

Travel: When and need as per Business requirement.