Accounts Associate

Are you ready for a challenging and exciting endeavor that will require the investment of a lot of hard work, dedication and all your experience? Are you ready to bring your skills, competencies and experience to support BCD Travel in establishing and enhancing the APAC based arm of the Global Organization? Do you have a solid understanding of the travel industry and proven project management experience? You might be exactly the new team member we are looking for.

**Accounts Associate**

**Mumbai India**

The Accounts Associate is responsible for:
1) Preparing monthly journal entries, reconciles general ledger accounts monthly, and conducts necessary account analysis and research.

2) Prepares balance sheet reconciliation accurately and timely.

3) Prepares journal entries to record inter-company charges, depreciation and amortization, and bills / reconciles inter-company accounts monthly and corrects variances.

**Your responsibilities**:
**Target Achievement—Financial**:

- Support Accounting department budget targets
- Support Manager by identifying areas to increase ebita
- Continuously improve processes to minimize costs

**Target Achievement—Non-Financial**
- Assist in Leading Accounting staff
- Support team and departmental goals
- Support the monthly close process and assist staff who may need help
- Complete timely, clear, and accurate account reconciliations

**Monthly Close Process**
- Complete timely, clear, and accurate account reconciliations
- Ensure accurate journal entries are processed monthly
- Ensure month end checklist items are processed timely and accurately

**Account Reconciliation Process**
- Complete timely, clear, and accurate account reconciliations
- Support the interim and year end financial audits
- Continuously work to streamline and automate reconciliation process

**Miscellaneous**
- Assist with the review of AP Vendor Maintenance
- Contribute to the budgeting and forecasting process (FA and Payroll, etc.)
- Provide ad hoc research and reporting to/for Supervisors, Managers, Director and regional finance

**Other**:
This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required for this position. The employee may be asked to perform other duties and responsibilities, as necessary.

**We’re looking for you if your profile matches the following**:

- Graduation
- 3+ years of experience in Finance, Accounting, Budgeting and Reconciling experience
- Must be able to take direction and work well with others
- Must be able to work under the stress of and meet deadlines
- Must be able to concentrate and perform accurately while meeting applicable productivity measures
- Must be able to change productively and to handle other tasks as assigned

**Core Competencies**:

- Delivers Outstanding Customer Service: Understands how to make a difference for every customer, internal and/or external. Provides opportunities for customers to describe their needs, clarifies for understanding, delivers prompt, courteous service and follows up as necessary
- Communicates Effectively: Demonstrates effective listening skills by clarifying and confirming information. Presents verbal and written communications in a logical, concise, coherent manner, appropriate for the audience. Develops effective communication channels, taking care to inform those who need to know and consults with those who should have input.
- Achieves Quality Results: Formulates clear objectives and develops plans to meet those objectives. Establishes and maintains priorities. Shows attention to detail, accuracy, and thoroughness. Completes required work volume within established deadlines.
- Pursues Innovation: Actively searches for new and better ways to achieve results. Displays original thinking and creativity. Thinks “outside the box”. Follows through without prompting to successfully resolve work issues or achieve results.
- Displays Initiative: Is a self-starter, seeks out and willingly accepts new challenges, responsibilities and assignments. Positively supports change and takes effective action to overcome obstacles or changing priorities. Follows through without prompting, to achieve work objectives.
- Demonstrates Good Judgment: Demonstrates well-balanced, critical thinking and capacity to reach good decisions quickly and accurately when necessary.
- Works as a Team Player: Actively works to establish and maintain good interpersonal relationship; always makes others feel valued and appreciated. Works cooperatively with others by willingly stepping forward to assist co-workers; contributes to team efforts and group projects. Known for being reliable and dependable.

**Functional competencies**:

- Focuses on those activities that have the greatest impact on meeting work commitments
- Understanding of the necessity and value of accuracy and attention to detail; ability to process information with high levels of accuracy.
- Understanding of the