Account Manager | Foreign Accounting | SL India New

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

PURPOSE

The Accounting Manager (AM) is responsible for all areas relating to financial reporting that the firm does for companies in the company group and to other clients the firm provides accounting services for. The AM has responsibility to ensure that services and deliveries performed by the accounting group meet the Service Level
Agreement (SLA) for each of the clients.

This position will be responsible for developing and maintaining accounting principles, practices and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements. This position addresses tight deadlines and a multitude of
accounting activities including general ledger preparation, financial reporting, year end audit preparation and the support of budget and forecast activities.

The Accounting Manager will have contact with senior-level Attorneys and the firm’s Executive Director and the client firms representatives and Controllers which requires strong interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal. The Clients and the company group that the firm belongs to is primarily located in Sweden and Norway and
are therefore submitted to the rules and regulation in these counties. In the future other countries might be represented among the clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES :

 Obtain and maintain a thorough understanding of the financial reporting and general ledger structure.
 Ensure an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close.
 Ensure the timely reporting of all monthly financial information.
 Ensure the monthly and quarterly Bank Compliance activities are performed in a timely and accurate
manner.
 Supports budget and forecasting activities.
 Monitors and analyses the Accounting group’s work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
 Ensuring that the Accounting group performs the accepted tasks for the different clients according to the agreed SLA. These tasks can include:
i. Assisting internal/external auditors with queries.
ii. Assisting with sales / purchase ledger duties, cash books
iii. Calculation, Assessment and filing of Income tax and Sales tax returns
iv. Raising purchase orders and chasing outstanding accounts.
v. Preparation of Cash Flow Statements
vi. Processing payments and documents such as invoices, journal vouchers, employee reimbursements & statements.

 Advises staff regarding the handling of non-routine reporting transactions.
 Work with the Clients representatives to ensure a clean and timely year end audit.
 Assist in development and implementation of new procedures and features to enhance the workflow of the
department.
 Ensure that there are written, accurate, accepted and signed Service Level Agreement (SLA) with all the
clients to the Accounting group.
 Provide training to new and existing staff as needed.
 Handle personnel issues relating to staff conflicts, absenteeism, performance issues, etc.
 Work with each direct report to establish goals and objectives for each year and monitor and advise on the progress to enhance the professional development of staff.

Dedicated tasks could entail the following :
1) Registration of Vendor and Vendor Invoices
2) Booking of Outgoing Payments
3) Booking of Incoming Payments
4) Journal Expenses Registrations
5) Salary Registrations
6) Bank Reconciliation
7) Payex Handling and Reconciliations
8) Inter Company Reconciliation
+) VAT Postings
10) Depreciation Booking
11) Skatteverket/Tax Reconciliations with Tax Agencies
12) VAT Calculation Summary
13) Pension Cost Registration
14) Supporting Activities to Auditors at year end
15) Other Supporting Activities