Assistant Manager

Job Description

Dentsu is committed to drive a robust and consistent control environment and this role plays an important part of it. The role will be part of US RTR team based in Bangalore and will act as a subject matter expert and work closely with the reporting manager to support and provide services to ensure a smooth month-end process and strengthen the control environment.

She/he will need to collaborate across multiple groups of stakeholders and will have to manage the delivery of key tasks in relation to end-to-end activities for Intercompany Accounts payable Receivable processes such as accounting AP invoices, payments, AR invoicing, collection, cash application, month end reporting and mismatch resolution and other related activities.

The role requires a person who is responsive, proactive, exceptionally well organized. The person must also have good communication and presentation skills with the ability to be able to communicate to all levels of management.

Shift Timings: The role will operate in shifts per the following:

Month end close 5:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Non-month end: 2:30 to 11 pm

Job Description:

Main Responsibilities

- Subject matter expert with good exposure of Intercompany Accounting reporting
- Manage the month closure activities.
- Monthly accurate reporting of Intercompany Receivables Payables.
- Clearing Intercompany mismatches
- Interact with counterparts over call and/or emails in receiving invoices, seeking clarifications, follow-ups etc.
- Coupa Treasury (Bellin) settlement and Balance sheet Reconciliations in Blackline (or similar treasury and balance sheet reconciliations tools)
- Support Manager in monthly/Quarterly financial reporting and control activities
- Preparation Consolidation and support adhoc activity during budget and reforecast.
- Interact with stake holders (CFO s / FD s / Regional Heads) to understand requirements, set expectations, address concerns, and discuss them with reporting manager.
- Responsible for maintaining updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), dashboards preparation and ensuring audit compliance.
- Deliver timely and error-free reports, KPI dashboards, non-compliance reports and other key process metrics to the stakeholders.
- Manage ad hoc requirements and projects on financial control compliance areas
- Supporting the Manager in external audit process e.g., gathering documentation for the organisations procedures/other audit supporting materials
- Drive team meetings and brain storming sessions.
- Assist reporting manager in preparing various reports and other deliverables.

Business Partnering

Partnering with market finance teams to:

- Ensure local market is completing processes within tight monthly deadlines.
- Encourage prompt balance matching to maintain timely settlement of Group balances.
- Resolve any items within the disputes workflow of the system and ensure this is done on a timely basis.
- Partnering with market, regional group finance teams to: Communicate metrics and results of local market. Present ageing and other statistics. Identify significant trends that might be of particular importance, which are an indicator that regional finance needs to act to either encourage or discourage the trend.

Professional Skills

- Finance Graduate/Postgraduate/Semi qualified Accountant with 8-10 years of experience in Intercompany Accounting reporting, General Ledger Record to Report process.
- Advanced user of Microsoft Excel PowerPoint.
- Knowledge of D365, SAP BPC (Business Planning Consolidation) and Blackline tool will be an added advantage.
- Strong communication skills (verbal written). Able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, across different regions and levels.
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.
- Demonstrate high level of responsibility and commitment to the assigned activities.
- Agile and flexible to changing needs and adhoc requirements.

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