Main Purpose:

This role is responsible for the accounting and ledger control of legal entities with primary responsibilities of monthly closing of the books, entity-specific accounting policy, legal entity maintenance, account reconciliation & account structure management. The role will require an in-depth understanding of these entities including their business strategies, associated technical accounting and disclosure requirements. Additionally this role with require the individual to be well versed with the systems and participate in system development projects.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• Chartered Accountant / post-graduation accounting qualification
• 3+ Years of relevant experience
• Strong communication skills
• Self-driven and able to take end-to-end ownership
• Keen to question and challenge the existing processes with a view of creating reporting efficiencies and improvements.
• Can work with multiple data sets, various systems and excel
• Eager to take up fresh challenges and support the team wherever required
• Comfortable to work with non-accounting teams for regular activities and projects

Key Responsibilities

Accounting and Ledger Control

• Provide and support input into the end-to-end financial statement close process within agreed deadlines including but not limited to revenue recognition checks, stock verification and reporting to senior management, and reconciliation of various P&L and Balance sheet GLs to source documents
• Ensuring that transaction level information have the backup of agreements and other source documents and is correct and complete.
• Ensure strong control framework by implementing and maintaining effective internal controls
• Address ad hoc requests from various stakeholders and counterparts like tax, consolidation and regional accounting teams • Coordinate with multiple teams on matters relating to intercompany settlements, transfer pricing, legal, compliance
• Gain a strong understanding of systems in terms of origination of data and its impact on financial statement close process.

Audit

• Liaise with external auditors during the group & statutory audits
• Coordinate with various functions to provide auditable support & evidence to external auditors
• Prepare disclosure schedules and audit documentation

Change Management

• Drive change projects to support any accounting policy changes or new reporting requirements for the legal entities in scope
• Challenge the current processes for improvement and constantly review processes for efficiencies
• Steer a wide variety of projects in the transformation of the GL systems from the design, functional requirements and testing to supporting implementation

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Key Relationships

• Business Controllers
• Deals Desk (Product Control team)
• Operations /Chartering (logistics)
• Trade Finance
• Treasury and Bank reconciliation
• External Audit teams