Accenture India | Delivery Lead Senior Manager

Responsibilities

• Join Accentures Finance Operations as a Delivery Lead Manager for Record to Report (RTR), covering general accounting, consolidation and reporting, acquire to retire and revenue accounting.
• You should act as an SME on complex accounting treatments, close issues, consolidation judgements and revenue recognition, apply strong internal controls (including Corporations Act s.295A), and manage controllership, FP&A, auditors and senior leaders.
• Reporting to the Finance Operations Lead, you will be the primary point of accountability for RTR delivery quality and client satisfaction, leading large teams supporting ANZ entities. 13-18 years experience; rotational shifts.
• Oversee end to end GL operations including journal entries account reconciliations intercompany eliminations and fixed asset accounting across client engagements.
• Lead group consolidation including eliminations currency translation minority interest and consolidated financial statements under GAAP IFRS.
• Oversee revenue accounting including revenue recognition deferred revenue tracking and AASB 15 IFRS 15 compliance.
• Lead month quarter and year end close delivering trial balance consolidated statements and management packs to the close calendar.
• Identify and assess complex RTR problems and create solutions involving accounting policy judgements complex transactions multi entity consolidation and revenue contract terms.
• Engage senior client stakeholders and internal and external auditors providing technical guidance and leading audit readiness.
• Act as the primary point of accountability for RTR delivery quality and client satisfaction reporting to the Finance Operations Lead.
• Manage large to medium sized teams at a client or within Accenture.
• Maintain a RAID log and proactively escalate reporting risks control deficiencies and audit findings to leadership and the client.
• Drive close cycle reduction automation and continuous improvement across RTR operations.
• Work in rotational shifts as required.
• Record to Report covers end-to-end collection, processing and reporting of financial data: general ledger, journal entries, reconciliations, intercompany, fixed assets, financial close, group consolidation and eliminations, statutory and management reporting, and revenue accounting.
• Make decisions on accounting policy materiality consolidation adjustments revenue recognition and escalation of audit or control issues
• Set near term goals for close efficiency reporting accuracy and controls effectiveness in line with senior management direction

What are we looking for?

• Deep RTR expertise across general ledger, period-end close, intercompany, fixed assets, consolidation and financial statements.
• Strong command of GAAP or IFRS and revenue recognition (AASB 15 or IFRS 15, ASC 606).
• BCom, MCom or Chartered Accountant with 13-18 years experience and deep, process-oriented expertise in end-to-end RTR.
• Lease accounting (AASB 16 or IFRS 16) is highly desirable, along with a track record of leading close cycle reduction initiatives and automating journal entry, reconciliation and consolidation processes.
• Experience in the travel or aviation business would be an added advantage.

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