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Job Title: Principal Analyst Role Band: 7

Location: GCC Bangalore Reporting to: Manager

Reporting to: Manager

1.PURPOSE OF ROLE

• Ensure timely and accurate annual financial reporting for assigned legal entity including Income Statement and Balance Sheet, Cash flow and supplementary schedules.
• Handling independently big 4 audit firms.
• Drive for audit closure by addressing all the queries and by providing relevant supporting documents as per the agreed timeline.
• Ensure delivery of operational performance within GCC / Zones against agreed SLAʼs & KPIʼs and complete adherence to SOX/MICS and audit compliances
• Partner with teams to identify improvements in efficiency, productivity & utilization across the zones and driving the improvements where required
• Ensure internal controls are compliant.

2.KEY TASKS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Annual Financial Statement responsibility:

• Preparation and review of annual financials for entities.
• Preparation and review of various schedules and working for annual financials.
• Should have experience audit department and ability to handle audit independently.
• Responsible for end-to-end auditing for African and Netherland entities.
• Communication with various stakeholder to resolve problem during the audit.
• Advisiory on different accounting complexity and accounting treatment.
• Balance sheet account reconciliations – Accruals (including comm. accruals), Equity, GL to SL, Trade receivable/payable, etc
• Reconcile ledgers and Inter-company transactions. Perform tests to check accuracy of financial information and systems & review of Foreign exchange gain/ loss across subsidiaries.
• Should have SAP experience..
• Review local GAAP/IFRS subsidiaries financials.
• Respond on queries from various stakeholders e.g. Board of directors, Investors, Bankers.
• Ensure correct accounting of Disposal of investment in subsidiaries and various merger and combination.
• Knowledge of IFRS related to Financial instruments, Association/Join venture, business combination.

• Responsible for end-to-end audit closure for African and European entities.
• Communication with various stakeholder to address questions raised by auditors.
• Should have an understanding on functioning of audit department and ability to handle audit independently.
• Timely closure of audit and to obtain signoff.

Stakeholder Management:

Swift response on queries raised from various stakeholders viz., Board of directors, Investors, Bankers, Zone / Reporting Managers.

• Reconcile ledgers and Inter-company transactions.
• Preparation of BRS & Cash flow statement.
• Perform tests to check accuracy of financial information and systems & treatment of foreign exchange gain/ loss arising out of consolidation.
• Quarterly reports
• Management Questioner / Survey
• Financial risk analysis of legal entity

Project accountability:

To make sure that assigned ongoing (global & country) projects (e.g. GCOA, FCCS, Cognos flow & etc.) achieve their goals. Active participation on project meetings, contribution to define and execute the action plans, cooperation with Project Lead, Team Lead, Country Controller and other teams to achieve project goals. Support the project with professional expertise.

MICS controls:

To ensure AFS prepared are within ABI Internal Controls / group accounting policy To swiftly address questions raised by Internal Controls team

3.QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS

• Level of educational attainment required:
  • Bachelor's degree (emphasis in Accounting or Finance field) &
  • Chartered Accountant (ICAI, ACCA, CPA or CIMA UK)
• Previous work experience
  • Minimum of 4 years experience post qualification with large scale manufacturing industry with Annual Financial Reporting, Accounting & Valuation background.
  • Hands on experience on full cycle of Financial Accounting & Reporting at entity level and problem solving.
  • Hands on experience on group consolidation principals, reporting requirement, consolidation journals.
  • Engaged with Big 4 auditors, actively responded to auditorsʼ queries, ensure for closure of audit at legal entity level.
  • Hands on experience on IFRS, IND AS, IGAAP, Africa GAAP or UK GAAP.
  • Must be able to handle multiple legal entities, countries, and zone simultaneously
  • Strong communication, follow-up, and organizational skills
  • Strong collaboration & teamwork
• Language skills required
  • English (Fluent)
• IT skills

Microsoft Office (mandatory)

SAP or Oracle (mandatory)

Hands on experience HFM or BCS FET or FCCS or Cognos or any other large scale reporting pack (is a plus) Advanced Excel (Pivots, calculated fields, Conditional formatting, charts, dropdown lists etc.)

VBA, Excel MACRO