Accenture India | Capital Markets Operations Manager

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the quality and timeliness of every pack, draft account, reconciliation, model and report the team produces.
• Act as the primary day-to-day contact and first escalation point for client Corporate Finance, and lead, resource and develop the supervisory and execution layers.
• Deliver the FP&A cycle; budget coordination, rolling forecast and re-forecast, variance and trend reporting to the agreed tolerances, and the monthly KPI and ad hoc packs.
• Drive service level and KPI performance across the sub-processes: investigate misses, agree corrective action, and report performance at the monthly review.
• Review the reconciliations, draft accounts, statements, models & reporting packs before they are released.
• Maintain the quality framework & the control and audit calendar; maker checker discipline, sampling, root cause resolution, audit evidence & remediation tracking.
• Identify, prioritize and deliver process improvement and automation opportunities, and lead transition workstreams: knowledge capture, training, parallel run and steady-state sign-off.
• Lead & develop the Associate Manager layer &, through them, the Specialist, Team Lead & Analyst population: objectives, performance management & capability building.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of the in-scope Corporate Finance sub-processes for client Accounts Payable; Time & Expense; Revenue Controllership; Compensation Controllership; GP Controllership; Corporate Controllership; Regional Controllers; and Financial Planning & Analysis against the agreed service levels and control standards.
• Manage day-to-day delivery across Accounts Payable, Time & Expense, the revenue, compensation, GP, corporate and regional controllership streams, and Financial Planning & Analysis, through the Associate Manager (CL8) layer.
• Run the delivery plan against the period-end close and payment-preparation calendars and confirm readiness and cut-off adherence ahead of each close.
• Escalate control weaknesses, ageing exceptions, unresolved differences and mistaken or duplicate payments.
• Run the weekly and monthly operating cadence with client Controllership, Treasury, HR and FP&A counterparts, and prepare the service performance content for governance reviews.
• Translate policy and system decisions into process change, keep documentation and job aids current, and track client side dependencies, reporting service impact where they are not met.

What are we looking for?

• Experience of delivering a period-end close across multiple entities, including reconciliation control and the escalation of unresolved differences.
• Experience of the FP&A cycle: budget coordination, forecasting, and variance and KPI reporting.
• Experience of managing service levels and KPIs in a service delivery or shared services environment, and of reporting performance to a client.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end Corporate Finance processes: accounts payable, travel and expense, period-end close, controllership, statutory reporting, and financial planning and analysis.
• Hands-on delivery experience of these processes on a major ERP or finance platform (for example SAP, Oracle, NetSuite or Workday).
• Experience of Workday Financial Management; core accounting, Accounting Center and financial reporting on which the client processes run.
• Exposure to Workday reporting (Report Writer, Composite Reports, Discovery Boards), Prism Analytics or Adaptive Planning, or to comparable FP&A planning tools.
• Working understanding of private markets fund structures, GP and carry vehicles & capital account mechanics, & of revenue recognition (ASC 606, IFRS 15) in an asset management context.
• Experience of multi-entity consolidation, intercompany elimination & multi-jurisdiction statutory reporting.

Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company working in strategy and consulting, technology, operations and digital transformation. It took its current name in 2001 after separating from Arthur Andersen, where it began as Andersen Consulting.

India is one of Accenture's largest talent bases. Finance professionals there mostly work in finance and accounting operations for global clients: record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, financial planning and analysis, and related advisory work.

• Industry: Professional services and IT
• Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland
• In India: Delivery centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Gurugram and other cities