EXL | Senior Manager - R2R

Responsibilities

• The Record to Report (R2R) Manager is responsible for managing end-to-end accounting and financial reporting processes, ensuring accurate and timely month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• The role leads a team of accounting professionals, drives process excellence, ensures compliance with accounting standards and internal controls, and partners with stakeholders to support financial decision-making.
• The position is accountable for maintaining the integrity of financial records, delivering high-quality reporting, and identifying opportunities for automation and continuous improvement.
• The role often requires expertise in GAAP accounting, reconciliations, journal entries, financial statement preparation, and ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle.
• Review and approve journal entries, accruals, and adjustments.
• Ensure timely completion of account reconciliations.
• Review financial statements and management reports.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, IFRS, or other applicable accounting standards.
• Analyze financial results and explain variances to management.
• Conduct performance reviews and development planning.
• Build a culture of accountability, quality, and continuous learning.
• Manage client and leadership reviews.
• Support internal and external audit requirements.
• Resolve accounting and reporting issues through collaboration with stakeholders.
• Monitor compliance and identify control gaps.
• Support risk assessment and remediation activities.
• Maintain process documentation and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Identify process inefficiencies and implement corrective actions.
• Lead accounting and reconciliation improvement projects.
• Allocate workloads and ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are achieved.
• Process Improvement & Transformation Drive automation and standardization initiatives.
• Leverage ERP and reporting tools to enhance productivity and accuracy.

Requirements

• Required Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or related field.
• Experience 10-15 years of experience in Accounting, Finance, or Record-to-Report operations.
• Proven experience in financial reporting, reconciliations, and close-cycle management.
• Insurance finance/accounting experience preferred where applicable.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP accounting principles.
• Exposure to reporting and analytics tools such as HFM, BI, Alteryx, or similar is advantageous.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Attention to detail and quality orientation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Continuous improvement mindset and project management skills.
• Preferred MBA (Finance) Chartered Accountant (CA) CPA, CFA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• Experience managing teams and stakeholder interactions.

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