Role Overview:

Finance Operations provides financial oversight, transactional process delivery and financial reporting for the business.

Reporting Accountant supports the delivery of high quality, timely reporting for group, management, statutory purposes, and for driving ongoing improvement in execution. This will include monitoring and optimization of activities currently performed, review and approval of all relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs and identification and migration of further activities as appropriate.

The Reporting accountant will also provide support for statutory and tax compliance activities for the markets they are accountable and ensure that all R2R activities are driven in accordance with S&N MAP and SoX control framework.

Responsibilities:
• Ensure that transactions are detailed, in compliance with group standards and, where relevant, Sarbanes Oxley requirements.
• Delivers high quality, timely reporting for group and statutory purposes and providing ad-hoc analysis and decision support to the local management team and the business.
• Participation in the annual Budgeting and quarterly Forecasting cycles utilizing Hyperion (SNHFM) and SAP or MS AX.
• Accountable for balance sheet integrity and reconciliations, to safeguard assets and ensure the efficient use of resources across the business; and to ensure that any ageing of balances is fully investigated and resolved.
• Support and implement continuous improvement initiatives e.g. process standardization and business efficiencies, with the strive to lower cost, improve service and reduce compliance risk.
• Prepare requests for the external and internal auditors, other advisors and relevant country Authorities.
• As taught by the Controller / Senior Reporting Accountant assess and implement changes to align with external reporting and accounting requirements as well as internal changes to the business or S&N accounting environment.

Location: Pune, India

Education:

Degree level qualification – Qualified Accountant ( i.e. ACA / ACCA / CPA /CA /CMA or equivalent)

Experience:
• 5+ years working in either in global accounting practice or in industry
• Must be proficient in English
• Demonstrates experience in analyzing financial data, drawing sound conclusions and developing proposals/solutions
• IFRS accounting experience.
• Experience of the Month-end reporting and control frameworks.

Nice to have:
• Relevant shown experience helpful, ideally in Medical Devices or Pharmaceuticals.
• Candidates with past experience in one of the following roles would be desirable - Commercial Accounting, Supply chain management, Legal Entity Reporting (including production and delivery of the accounts consolidation processes and complex transactions and associated accounting), Supply Chain Accounting (standard costs, variances, internal sales)
• Experience of SAP / Hyperion / TM1 / Cognos.
• Working knowledge and application of SOX control frameworks.
• Experience of transition and transformation to an offshore Captive or BPO Transactional Finance operation.
• Experience of working in financial reporting role in a large / listed entity.

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