Senior Associate Director

About KPMG in India

KPMG entities in India are professional services firm(s). These Indian member firms are affiliated with KPMG International Limited. KPMG was established in India in August 1993. Our professionals leverage the global network of firms, and are conversant with local laws, regulations, markets and competition. KPMG has offices across India in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gurugram, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Vadodara and Vijayawada. 

KPMG entities in India offer services to national and international clients in India across sectors. We strive to provide rapid, performance-based, industry-focused and technology-enabled services, which reflect a shared knowledge of global and local industries and our experience of the Indian business environment.

 

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1. Transactional & accounting experience in the following areas: 

• Procure to Pay (P2P): 
• Database and compliance requirements for customer/vendors etc. 
• Payments schedules, invoice booking and vendor management etc. 
• Employee expense management, employee advances and payroll and reimbursements
• Record to Report (R2R): 
• Month end activities- closing of general ledger, ledger to sub ledger reconciliations and other period close schedules/entries
• Revenue recognition- preparation of balance sheet reconciliations, trial balance analysis etc.
• Accounting for fixed assets, intercompany transactions, debt / borrowings, cost accruals, amortization 
• Support and assistance in audit and other reviews (diligence etc.) 
• Order to Cash: 
• Master data management and collection recognition (managing sales outstanding) 
• Cash application, bank clearing & reconciliation and other modes of receipts along with dispute, query, and refunds management 
• Financial Planning & Analysis: 
• Budgeting, forecasting and MIS reporting of various functions
• Variance analysis, performance monitoring and transactional tracking etc. 

2. Project Management & Governance: 

• Ability to govern your team efficiently and understanding performance expectation, productivity, employee engagement and compliance & risk etc.
• Drive governance results via evaluating key performance metrics (KPI's) as well as achieving established service level agreements (SLA's) 
• Identify process gaps or improvement opportunities and provide measures for the same. Ability to drive, track and report changes/progress and conduct knowledge transfers and hand-offs between individuals / organizations / systems and interfaces.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining positive relationships with all internal/ external stakeholders by strong understanding of their evolving needs expectations and perceptions
• Able to independently lead and collaborate with teams across India and across businesses i.e., coordinating meetings, follow through action points, dash boards, coordinating with business heads for information etc. 

Qualifications:

• Commerce Graduate 
• Qualified (CA/ICWA) 
• MBA / PGDM others (applicable for AD)

Work experience & skills:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in outsourcing industry, with in depth exposure to process improvement and ERP systems
• Hands-on experience in F&A Processes (PTP, RTR, OTC & FP&A)
• Proven people management experience. Experience in management and working with remote teams is an advantage
• Results oriented and comfortable working in a deadline driven environment
• Project management and driving process improvements
• Experience in managing change
• Internal controls awareness and understanding
• Excellent detailed knowledge of the business processes in their area, both current and future
• Proven analytical and decision-making skills 
• Flexibility & proactivity
• Customer focused and proven experience of building, developing and sustaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
• Identify process gaps and issues, find solutions for them and bring them into action. Identify and understand hand-offs between individuals / organisations / systems and interfaces.

Identify inefficiencies in the process and BAU, drive effectiveness improvement initiatives.