EY India | Senior Associate

Responsibilities

• This position is part of GDS India Finance Team and reports to the Manager - Finance.
• This position serves a critical finance role in accounting & controlling activities of select Entities.
• In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe.
• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• You will work closely with other members of the Finance and accounting teams (India and Overseas) and provides accurate and timely information for month-end close.
• You will also be responsible to liaise and drive the month-end closure by interacting with various stakeholders (India and Overseas) to provide timely and qualitative inputs.
• Drive quality month-end process with agreed timelines.
• Review of Trial balance, Schedules and Financials (P&L and Balance Sheet) for pre-month close and provide inputs for necessary accounting entries.
• Monitoring the fixed assets register along with all key fields such as asset classes, life, depreciation forecast.
• Interact with other Finance stakeholders to ensure month-end schedules are adhered to and necessary entries passed before the cut-off.
• Interact with Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting & Analysis team to provide the month-end reports in the agreed template and format.
• Preparing financial statements, audit schedules, reconciliation of GL with other supporting details, intercompany/inter-unit reconciliation.
• Handling of Statutory Audit/IFRS Audit and Tax Audits of entities.
• Plan month-end/ Year- End close

Skills and attributes for success

• Good understanding of Indian GAAP and IFRS.
• Working in multinational environment with different time zones.
• Succinct and structured oral and written communications skills.
• Strong experience in financial statements preparation and notes to accounts.
• Expertise in MS Excel, Power Point and handling large amount of data sets and tasks.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Planning skills and ability to prioritize the workload.
• Attention to details and sense of ownership.
• Ability to stretch in the busy period for high quality and on time delivery.
• Working in a team of experts with deep domain knowledge.

EY (Ernst & Young)

EY is one of the Big Four professional services networks, providing assurance, tax, consulting and strategy-and-transactions services. The network in its present form came from the 1989 merger of Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young.

In India, EY member firms and EY Global Delivery Services employ large finance teams. Typical openings for chartered accountants and finance professionals are in financial accounting advisory (FAAS), audit, tax, risk and transaction services.

• Industry: Assurance, tax, consulting and transactions (Big Four)
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: EY member firms and EY Global Delivery Services centres in several Indian cities