Accenture India | Delivery Operations Team Lead

Responsibilities

• This team oversees the end-to-end Record to Report cycle, which includes general ledger accounting, journal entry processing, account and balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany accounting, fixed assets management, and statutory and management reporting.
• Ensuring financial integrity, providing accurate and timely financial reporting, and supporting robust period-end close processes.
• Prepare and post standard and non-standard journal entries including accruals, prepayments, reclassifications, and intercompany entries in line with the close calendar.
• Perform balance sheet account reconciliations, investigate and resolve open items, and ensure timely sign-off in line with SOX control requirements.
• Support fixed assets accounting including capitalisation, depreciation runs, asset transfers, retirements, and maintenance of the fixed asset register.
• Assist in the preparation of financial statements, management reporting packs, and variance analysis to support business review processes.
• Prepare and post journal entries, perform general ledger reconciliations, support period-end and year-end close activities, maintain fixed asset registers, process intercompany transactions and eliminations, and assist in the preparation of financial statements and management reports in accordance with GAAP or IFRS.

What are we looking for?

• Ability to handle complex accounting queries and resolve general ledger discrepancies.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders including controllership, FP&A, and external auditors.
• Ability to meet strict period-end close deadlines and financial reporting timelines.
• Ability to perform under pressure during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close cycles.
• Ability to work well in a team and collaborate across finance sub-processes.
• Good understanding of general ledger accounting concepts, chart of accounts structure, and double-entry bookkeeping.
• Experience in account reconciliations, journal entry preparation and review, and balance sheet substantiation.
• Familiarity with intercompany accounting, fixed assets accounting, and accruals management.
• Working knowledge of GAAP and/or IFRS and their application to day-to-day accounting transactions.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Cloud Financials, or similar platforms; exposure to close management tools such as BlackLine is 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