Baker Tilly US India | Manager - NFP - Accounting & Finance Services

Responsibilities

• Lead accounting service delivery across multiple not-for-profit client engagements, ensuring accuracy, quality, and timely completion of financial reporting activities.
• Oversee accounting operations including accounts payable, accounts receivable, reconciliations, journal entries, general ledger activities, and periodic financial reporting.
• Review and approve complex financial statements and client deliverables, including multi-entity and nonprofit-specific reporting requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for client engagements, maintaining strong relationships and resolving accounting or operational issues proactively.
• Manage engagement timelines, resource allocation, project priorities, and client expectations across multiple engagements.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Associates and Seniors through coaching, performance feedback, and ongoing support.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, strengthen controls, and enhance operational efficiency across client engagements.
• Ensure compliance with firm methodologies, accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal quality expectations.
• Support business development initiatives by identifying opportunities for additional services, process enhancements, or technology solutions.
• Provide technical accounting guidance on complex matters and promote consistent application of accounting principles and best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Bill.com, CaseWare, Ramp, or other ERP/accounting systems preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounting, bookkeeping, payroll processes, and financial reporting requirements.
• Proven experience reviewing financial transactions, reconciliations, and financial statements for accuracy and compliance.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple client engagements simultaneously.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills with the ability to support team development and collaboration.
• Strong client service orientation with the ability to build and maintain effective client relationships.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies, systems, and evolving business requirements.

Baker Tilly US, LLP

The firm's roots in the United States go back to 1931, when it began as Virchow, Krause & Company, and the current partnership was organised in 1953. It joined Baker Tilly International in 1999 and took the Baker Tilly name in 2009. It has since grown through mergers with ParenteBeard in 2014 and Squar Milner in 2020, among others. Baker Tilly provides audit and assurance, tax, and advisory services, with a CPA firm handling attest work and a separate advisory group handling tax and consulting. In 2023 it formed a joint venture with the Indian firm Pierian Services, called BT Pierian, to add service delivery capacity in India across assurance, advisory and managed services.

The openings are mostly in Bengaluru, with some roles in Gurugram and Kochi. US tax roles at manager and senior manager level ask for CPA, CA or an Enrolled Agent certification. Assurance and internal audit roles prefer CA, CPA or CIA. Other postings cover accounting advisory, transaction advisory, business valuation, corporate finance advisory, FP&A, treasury, cash applications, billing, private equity fund services and managed accounting services. Roles run from associate to senior manager, and the accounting advisory roles in Gurugram ask for CA, CPA or ACCA.

• Industry: Accounting, tax, assurance and advisory services, including managed accounting services
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, United States (U.S. member firm of Baker Tilly International)
• In India: BT Pierian, a joint venture with the Indian firm Pierian Services formed in 2023; finance and accounting roles in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Kochi