Baker Tilly US India | Associate Manager - Managed Accounting Services Advisory

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day accounting operations, including general ledger accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll-related accounting, journal entries, reconciliations, and month-end close activities.
• Review team deliverables, monitor daily operational performance against SLAs, KPIs, productivity, and quality targets, and implement corrective actions to address operational gaps and accounting discrepancies.
• Manage day-to-day team activities, including regular one-on-one discussions, coaching, performance feedback, timesheet monitoring, leave approvals, and support for hiring, onboarding, training, and team development.
• Participate in client governance calls and operational reviews, coordinate accounting deliverables, address routine client inquiries, and provide timely updates on service performance, outstanding items, and action plans.
• Prepare and maintain operational dashboards, performance metrics, SLA/KPI reports, and governance materials to support management reviews and effective decision-making.
• Coordinate month-end and year-end reporting activities, support audit and tax-related information requests, and assist Managers with resource planning, utilization tracking, and operational inputs for budgeting and forecasting.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives, process standardization, automation, AI adoption, and cloud-based accounting solutions to enhance operational efficiency, accuracy, productivity, and client service quality.
• Supervise a team of junior and senior associates or assigned client accounting workstreams, ensuring effective task allocation, workload management, and timely delivery of high-quality accounting services.
• Prepare and review financial statements, supporting schedules, cash flow reports, budget comparisons, variance analyses, and management reports, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with US GAAP and applicable accounting standards.
• Implement established accounting policies, standard operating procedures, internal controls, and quality checks while resolving routine operational issues and escalating significant accounting matters, delivery risks, and client concerns to Managers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field, or equivalent work experience; CA, CPA, CA Inter, or equivalent professional accounting qualification preferred.
• Minimum 4–6 years of relevant accounting experience, preferably including work review, team coordination, or supervisory exposure in managed services, outsourcing, or shared services.
• Strong working knowledge of general ledger accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll-related accounting, reconciliations, close processes, financial statements, and supporting schedules.
• Good understanding of US GAAP and relevant accounting standards, with the ability to identify errors and assess accounting and reporting accuracy.
• Experience preparing or reviewing management reporting, cash flow information, budget comparisons, and variance analyses.
• Experience with QuickBooks Online, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, or similar cloud accounting/ERP systems preferred; strong Microsoft Excel and Office skills.
• Ability to analyze financial documents, solve routine accounting problems, manage competing deadlines, and communicate clearly with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to coach associates, organize daily team delivery, monitor service metrics, and maintain a client-focused, quality-oriented approach.

Baker Tilly US, LLP

The firm's roots in the United States go back to 1931, when it began as Virchow, Krause & Company, and the current partnership was organised in 1953. It joined Baker Tilly International in 1999 and took the Baker Tilly name in 2009. It has since grown through mergers with ParenteBeard in 2014 and Squar Milner in 2020, among others. Baker Tilly provides audit and assurance, tax, and advisory services, with a CPA firm handling attest work and a separate advisory group handling tax and consulting. In 2023 it formed a joint venture with the Indian firm Pierian Services, called BT Pierian, to add service delivery capacity in India across assurance, advisory and managed services.

The openings are mostly in Bengaluru, with some roles in Gurugram and Kochi. US tax roles at manager and senior manager level ask for CPA, CA or an Enrolled Agent certification. Assurance and internal audit roles prefer CA, CPA or CIA. Other postings cover accounting advisory, transaction advisory, business valuation, corporate finance advisory, FP&A, treasury, cash applications, billing, private equity fund services and managed accounting services. Roles run from associate to senior manager, and the accounting advisory roles in Gurugram ask for CA, CPA or ACCA.

• Industry: Accounting, tax, assurance and advisory services, including managed accounting services
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, United States (U.S. member firm of Baker Tilly International)
• In India: BT Pierian, a joint venture with the Indian firm Pierian Services formed in 2023; finance and accounting roles in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Kochi