Morningstar India | Accounting Manager

Key responsibilities

• This role will work across core accounting, close, and controls —with strong exposure to process improvement and transformation initiatives.
• You will partner with cross functionalcross functional stakeholders to ensure financial records are complete, compliant (US GAAP), and audit ready audit ready.
• Support timely month‑end close with focus on completeness, accuracy, and quality of substantiation.
• Review the financial statements and analyze key variances and provide analytical insights.
• Execute/support accounting operations across GL, AP, AR, billing, revenue accounting, accruals, expense accounting, intercompany, and reconciliations based on assigned scope.
• Prepare and review account reconciliations, ensuring clear explanations, support, aging follow ups follow-ups, and timely resolution of open items.
• Coordinate with shared services / operations teams to ensure smooth end‑to‑end accounting flows and issue resolution.
• Act as an SME by providing guidance on appropriate accounting treatments for complex or non-routine transactions.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, and automation across close, reconciliations, validations, and reporting.
• Drive initiatives to shorten the close cycle and enhance reporting accuracy, including exploring AI and advanced financial systems integration where beneficial.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams – including FP&A, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Tax, Treasury, Operations, and local finance teams – to facilitate smooth end-to-end finance processes.
• Timely & Accurate Closings: Consistently complete monthly and quarterly closings on schedule with high accuracy, yielding reliable financial statements and minimal post-close adjustments.
• Partnership and reporting, working as an extended arm of local Americas controllership team.
• Ownership & Accountability: Proactive “owner” mindset with a bias for action and closure; takes full responsibility for deliverables and outcomes.
• Communication & Collaboration: Clear and effective communicator able to explain financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders; skilled at working across teams, cultures, and time zones.
• Process Improvements: Implement efficiency enhancements that reduce close timelines, streamline intercompany processes, or automate with a focus on automating or standardizing e routine tasks, demonstrating continuous improvement in the RTR function.

Requirements

• Chartered Accountant (CA) with 6-10years post‑qualification experience in industry and/or audit environment (shared services / multinational exposure preferred).
• 5+ years of relevant post-qualification accounting experience (e.g., general ledger, financial close, auditing or financial reporting), preferably within a multinational company or global shared services environment.
• Strong foundation in accounting principles; exposure to US GAAP and awareness of local statutory requirements is an advantage.
• Strong accounting and reconciliation discipline; structured close execution.
• Experience with Oracle and Salesforce platforms is preferred.
• Exposure to Oracle EPM applications, including Financial Consolidation and Close (FCCS) and Account Reconciliation (ARCS), would be advantageous.
• Systems mindset: ability to understand process flows and controls end to end.
• Attention to detail – meticulous in financial data validation, reconciliations, and document preparation to ensure completeness and accuracy of reporting.
• Strong critical-thinking and analytical skills, with intellectual curiosity to investigate anomalies, identify root causes, resolve complex accounting issues, and make sound decisions in a dynamic environment.

Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research and data, headquartered in Chicago and operating through subsidiaries in more than 30 countries with over 40 offices worldwide. It serves individual investors, financial advisers and wealth managers, asset managers, retirement plan providers and institutional investors with data, analytics and research (Morningstar Direct, Morningstar Investor, PitchBook for private markets, Sustainalytics for ESG research), credit ratings through Morningstar DBRS, Morningstar Indexes, and investment management and retirement services.

Morningstar India Private Limited, based in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, is a major data, research, technology and operations centre for the group — Morningstar counts India as one of its four regions alongside the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific — and has been certified as a Great Place to Work for ten consecutive years. Its Mumbai teams work in managed-investment and equity data, equity and manager research, index management and operations, credit and ESG research, product development, client service and corporate finance — work that suits CA, CFA, MBA (Finance), M.Com and B.Com profiles as well as quantitative and research specialists.

• Industry: Financial services — independent investment research, data, indexes and credit ratings
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, USA
• In India: Morningstar India Private Limited, Vashi, Navi Mumbai (Vishwaroop IT Park) and Mumbai (Platinum Park)