Accordion India | Associate - Operational and Technical Accounting

Responsibilities

• As a Business Associate in Accordion’s Operational & Technical Accounting (O&T) practice, you will work on complex accounting and operational challenges across private equity portfolio companies.
• As the primary owner of assigned workstreams, you will apply technical accounting knowledge, operational thinking, and problem-solving frameworks to drive meaningful improvements in controllership, financial reporting, and finance operations.
• You will be responsible for supporting technical accounting analyses, preparing policy documentation, assessing process gaps, and helping implement scalable operational solutions across key finance and accounting workflows such as month-end close, audit readiness and financial reporting.
• Additionally, you will support Business Managers and Directors by delivering clear insights, well-structured recommendations, and hands-on support that helps clients strengthen their finance and accounting function, enhance performance, and accelerate value creation.
• You will collaborate closely with team members to ensure accuracy, compliance, and practical execution.
• Analyse financial data, processes, and accounting workflows to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Support the development of technical memos, policies, and process improvements, and synthesize complex accounting following US-GAAP and IFRS and process issues into clear, actionable recommendations for client leadership.
• Collaborative vitality: Experience a non-bureaucratic, high-energy culture alongside high-calibre peers.
• Working at Accordion in India means joining 800+ financial, technical, analytics, and operational experts in a high-growth, agile, and entrepreneurial environment focused on transforming how portfolio companies operate and deliver results.
• Work hands-on with tools such as Excel, ERP systems and PowerBI to reconcile data, create process maps, and accounting documentation to support technical accounting conclusions, strengthen controllership, and enhance operational execution.
• Help diagnose issues across month-end close, reconciliations, reporting, and financial onboarding, ensuring alignment with accounting and stakeholder’s standards and expectations.

Requirements

• Ability to interpret and apply U.S. GAAP, IFRS and other accounting standards.
• Strong understanding of operational finance and accounting processes (close, reporting, reconciliations, controls, audit).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and directly with CFOs, controllers, global teams and PE stakeholders.
• Background in accounting, controllership, technical accounting, or audit; CA is preferred

Accordion India

Accordion India is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance). In its own words: "Accordion is the value creation partner for private equity."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Hyderabad.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance