ABB India | Team Lead - General Accounting

Your role and responsibilities (mandatory)

• Each day, you will ensure compliance with internal guidelines, procedures, and external regulatory requirements.
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• Our Finance division is widely regarded as a trusted partner that provides forward-looking insights to support sustainable growth.
• You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together.
• In this role, you will have the opportunity to manage complete, accurate, and timely completion of accounting activities for the assigned area (e.g., reporting, consolidation, etc.) within the General Accounting (GA) team.
• You will also showcase your experience by overseeing, reviewing, and/or supporting the month-end close process including account reconciliation, preparation of journal entries, balance sheet review, etc.
• Overseeing the preparation of financial statements in the appropriate format to include in timely filings with regulatory agencies.
• Analyzing accounts, identifying discrepancies or anomalies for correction, and acting as an escalation contact for resolving accounting transactions and reporting questions.
• Ensuring transparency in financial reporting and disclosures.
• Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative.
• Manage the team and delivery.

Qualifications for the role (mandatory)

• Sound technical knowledge of US GAAP, SAP FICO module, HFM (Oracle), MS office and SAP GR/MR.
• Demonstrated experience in finance transformation programs such as SAP implementation.
• Ability to assess challenges thoughtfully and resolve them effectively.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, along with the ability to build positive working relationships.
• Demonstrated skill in managing complex situations and implementing process consistency.
• Qualifications for the role (Mandatory)
• Demonstrated experience managing teams.

ABB India Limited

ABB is a Swiss-headquartered engineering and technology group best known for electrification and automation. It has worked in India for more than a century, and its listed company here, ABB India Limited, began in 1949 as Hindustan Electric Company. ABB India makes and services electrical equipment, motors and drives and automation systems for power utilities, factories, transport and buildings, from plants and engineering centres that also supply ABB businesses in other countries.

Finance openings at ABB in India are concentrated in Bengaluru, in teams that close the books, report and control for ABB units in India and abroad. Typical roles are accounting and reporting analysts and specialists (general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, intercompany, fixed assets and lease accounting), direct and indirect tax analysts, and controlling and FP&A specialists. Most ask for a B.Com, M.Com or MBA (Finance), and several name CA, CMA or CA Inter as a requirement or an advantage.

• Industry: Electrification and automation technology: electrical products and systems, motors and drives, process automation
• Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland (ABB Ltd); ABB India Limited has its registered office in Bengaluru
• In India: ABB India Limited, listed on the NSE and BSE, with factories, feeder factories for ABB's global supply chain and engineering centres in India; most finance roles are in Bengaluru