Accordion India | Associate - Operational and Technical Accounting

Responsibilities

• As a Business Associate in Accordion’s Operational & Technical Accounting (O&T) practice, you will work on complex accounting and operational challenges across private equity portfolio companies.
• As the primary owner of assigned workstreams, you will apply technical accounting knowledge, operational thinking, and problem-solving frameworks to drive meaningful improvements in controllership, financial reporting, and finance operations.
• You will be responsible for supporting technical accounting analyses, preparing policy documentation, assessing process gaps, and helping implement scalable operational solutions across key finance and accounting workflows such as month-end close, audit readiness and financial reporting.
• Additionally, you will support Business Managers and Directors by delivering clear insights, well-structured recommendations, and hands-on support that helps clients strengthen their finance and accounting function, enhance performance, and accelerate value creation.
• You will collaborate closely with team members to ensure accuracy, compliance, and practical execution.
• Analyse financial data, processes, and accounting workflows to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Support the development of technical memos, policies, and process improvements, and synthesize complex accounting following US-GAAP and IFRS and process issues into clear, actionable recommendations for client leadership.
• Collaborative vitality: Experience a non-bureaucratic, high-energy culture alongside high-calibre peers.
• Working at Accordion in India means joining 800+ financial, technical, analytics, and operational experts in a high-growth, agile, and entrepreneurial environment focused on transforming how portfolio companies operate and deliver results.
• Work hands-on with tools such as Excel, ERP systems and PowerBI to reconcile data, create process maps, and accounting documentation to support technical accounting conclusions, strengthen controllership, and enhance operational execution.
• Help diagnose issues across month-end close, reconciliations, reporting, and financial onboarding, ensuring alignment with accounting and stakeholder’s standards and expectations.

Requirements

• Ability to interpret and apply U.S. GAAP, IFRS and other accounting standards.
• Strong understanding of operational finance and accounting processes (close, reporting, reconciliations, controls, audit).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and directly with CFOs, controllers, global teams and PE stakeholders.
• Background in accounting, controllership, technical accounting, or audit; CA is preferred

Accordion

Nick Leopard, a former Bear Stearns investment banker, founded Accordion in 2009, and the firm is headquartered in New York. It describes itself as a financial consulting firm focused on private equity, working with investment firms and the management teams of the companies they own through the life of an investment. Its work spans finance and accounting support for CFOs, finance technology and planning systems, data and AI, transactions, operational transformation, and turnaround and restructuring. Accordion has grown partly through acquisitions. In India, it bought Merilytics, a Hyderabad data analytics company, in May 2023 and folded it into its business. The Hyderabad team houses the firm's data and analytics practice and serves clients in the United States and Europe.

Accordion's finance openings in India are in Hyderabad and centre on accounting. An assistant manager role in finance and accounting supports UK and European entities and asks for four to seven or more years of accounting experience, with candidates who hold or are pursuing ACCA strongly preferred. An associate role in operational and technical accounting suits people with two or more years in public accounting, private equity-backed companies or transaction-heavy settings. Both postings ask for a degree in accounting, finance, commerce, economics or a related subject.

• Industry: Financial consulting focused on private equity: finance and accounting, CFO technology, data and AI, transactions, transformation, and turnaround and restructuring for investment firms and their portfolio companies
• Headquarters: New York, United States
• In India: Hyderabad, Telangana, where its Indian team grew out of the 2023 acquisition of the Hyderabad analytics firm Merilytics