WNS
WNS | Lead Associate -(General Ledger/RTR) (3 to 4 years ) Mumbai - WFO (US Shifts) - Indian Accounting
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Job Highlights
Key responsibilities
- Prepare and review standard and non-standard journal entries received from customers, ensuring accuracy and adherence to established quality standards.
- Monitor and clear suspense account open items by coordinating with cross-functional teams and ensuring timely issue resolution.
- Prepare and review bank reconciliations, fixed asset accounting entries, and fixed asset reconciliations.
- Perform Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss (P&L) account reconciliations to ensure completeness, accuracy, and reliability of financial reporting.
- Prepare and review monthly and quarterly financial reports, conduct Balance Sheet analysis, and ensure compliance with applicable accounting and reporting requirements.
- Drive process improvements through detailed business process understanding, root cause analysis, and implementation of effective controls.
- Establish, implement, and monitor internal controls and review mechanisms to identify, prevent, and resolve accounting discrepancies.
- Manage individual and team deliverables, ensuring adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs), quality metrics, timelines, and process compliance.
- Manage India Statutory Audits, Tax Audits, and Transfer Pricing (TP) Audits by coordinating with auditors and providing timely responses to audit queries.
- Prepare and provide financial statements, including the Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Account, Notes to Accounts, and supporting schedules, for audit and reporting purposes.
- Develop and provide detailed Balance Sheet and P&L reconciliations to substantiate financial statement balances and support audit requirements.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders across Finance, Tax, and Business teams to facilitate smooth audit closure and ensure compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Indian accounting, financial reporting, and account reconciliations.
- Strong knowledge of Indian statutory accounting, financial statements, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Hands-on experience in Statutory Audits, Tax Audits, and Transfer Pricing Audits.
- Proven experience in Balance Sheet and P&L reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, bank reconciliations, and suspense account management.
- Experience in financial reporting, internal controls, audit coordination, and process improvement initiatives.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage individual and team deliverables while meeting deadlines, SLAs, and quality standards.
About the company
WNS Global Services
WNS started in Mumbai in 1996 as an in-house operations unit for British Airways. Warburg Pincus bought a majority stake in 2002, and the company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006. In October 2025 it became part of the French group Capgemini, and its shares were taken off the NYSE. WNS runs finance and accounting, customer service, procurement, HR and analytics work for clients in banking, capital markets and many other industries, increasingly with automation and AI. In India it has its head office at Vikhroli in Mumbai and delivery centres in Mumbai, Pune, Gurugram, Noida, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Nashik, Indore and Visakhapatnam.
Finance and accounting operations make up much of WNS's work in India. Roles span accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash application, general ledger and record-to-report, statutory and financial reporting, taxation, treasury, costing, US payroll, lease administration, and royalty reporting and audit, plus quality and process-training roles. Most are in Mumbai, Pune and Gurugram, often on US or UK shifts. Postings commonly ask for a B.Com, M.Com or MBA (Finance); several welcome CA Inter or CMA Inter candidates, and some name CA, ACCA or CPA, including roles for CA freshers.
