Associate, Accounting

**Reports To**:Senior Manager, Accounting

**Business Unit**:Finance, Accounting

**Level**:P1

**Region**:Gurugram

**Position Summary**

We are currently looking for an associate to join our India Accounting team. We are seeking a dynamic and self-motivated individual with excellent accounting knowledge as well as strong analytical and communication skills. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Accounting. This is an excellent opportunity to learn and grow within a rapidly growing global organization.

**Position Responsibilities include (but are not limited to)**:

- Timely and accurate processing of vendor invoices.
- Timely response to vendor and other stakeholder on their queries.
- Month end closing activities like booking of accruals, reversals, prepaid expenses etc.
- Prepare detailed account analysis and reconciliation for various balance sheet accounts.
- Assisting in audits.
- Process improvements & automations.
- Assist with ad hoc accounting projects and requests.

**Position Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s/master’s degree in accounting or equivalent.
- Minimum 2 years of relevant accounting experience in a MNC or a public accounting firm in handling Indian accounting & compliances.
- Strong knowledge of Indian accounting principles & taxation laws.
- Must be highly organized and detail oriented with the ability to manage multiple tasks at one time.
- Must have good communications skills and the ability to develop effective working relationships across the company’s operations.
- Advanced Excel skills required.
- Experience with Great Plains would be preferable.

**We are looking for**:

- An individual self-motivated and passionate about in all things “accounting”
- An individual who exhibits process discipline and systematic approach to pipeline development
- An individual with strong interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
- An individual who is simultaneously team-oriented and strong individual contributors
- A resilient, perseverant, and goal-oriented individual

**About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group**

GLG is the world’s insight network. Our clients rely on GLG’s global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of approximately 1 million experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).

GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company’s culture.

Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

**EEO Policy Statement**:
Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.