EXL | Manager

Responsibilities

• Perform/review routine reconciliations and validations of financial data across source systems such as Journey, SDM, Oracle, and other upstream feeds.
• Investigate and resolve routine variances identified during gross, ceded, and system reconciliations (including Dataiku and Workiva, source-to-Oracle checks).
• Update and maintain SmartView and standard close reports at various stages of the monthly and quarterly close cycle.
• Prepare recurring close schedules, reconciliation templates, and supporting working papers.
• Assist in preparation of close-related documentation, including tax split files, earnings reviews, and statutory support schedules.
• Coordinate with upstream teams, systems, and operations to resolve data discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with documented close procedures, controls, and reporting timetables.
• Lead and own end-to-end financial close and reporting activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial results.
• Act as a key contact for external audits, providing support files, technical explanations, ad-hoc reports, and formal responses to audit queries.
• Develop close papers (P&L) and management reviews, delivering analytical insights on performance, intercompany eliminations, and key insurance provisions (UPR, DAC, IBNR), including quota share validations.
• Perform quarterly balance sheet reviews and provide senior-management-ready commentary on movements, risks, and judgmental balances.
• Support regulatory, statutory, and governance-driven reporting requirements, including year-end, tax, and earnings-related deliverables.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert during close and reporting cycles, supporting issue resolution, control effectiveness, and continuous process improvement.
• Perform independent, high-level review of reporting and financial outputs, including pre close and post close, and complex variance reporting Prepare and review year-end financial statements, including cash flow statements, ensuring robust casting, cross-checks, and overall financial integrity.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant, CPA, CFA or equivalent with 8 - 10 years’ experience in US GAAP / IFRS accounting experience B.Com with strong practical experience in Accounting and reporting for more than 12-14 years.

EXL

EXL (ExlService Holdings, Inc.) is a data analytics and digital operations company founded in 1999 and listed on NASDAQ as EXLS. It works with large insurers, banks, healthcare payers and retailers worldwide, combining data, AI and deep industry knowledge to run and transform business operations. Its Indian arm, EXL Service.com (India) Private Limited, was incorporated in 1999, and India is where the bulk of its global delivery work happens.

For finance professionals, EXL hires across finance and accounting operations (record to report, procure to pay, order to cash), financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, audit support, and risk and compliance, alongside its large analytics practice. CA, CMA, ACCA and MBA (Finance) profiles suit these roles across its Noida, Gurugram, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kochi centres.

• Industry: Data analytics, AI and digital operations (BPM)
• Headquarters: New York, USA (Indian operations headquartered in Noida)
• In India: Delivery centres in Noida, Gurugram, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kochi