Oracle India | Senior Financial Accountant – General Ledger (GL) (CA/ CMA mandatory)

Key responsibilities

• We are seeking a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) or Cost and Management Accountant (CMA) with 3–5 years of accounting experience to join our Finance Division as a Lead Financial Accountant.
• In this role, you will manage core general ledger accounting activities, prepare journal entries and account reconciliations, support periodic financial close processes, and produce accurate financial statements.
• You will also contribute to accounting controls, audit readiness, and process improvements to ensure financial information is accurate, timely, and compliant with applicable accounting standards.
• General Ledger Accounting: Maintain accurate general ledger records, prepare and post journal entries, and ensure transactions are appropriately recorded.
• Account Reconciliation: Perform periodic balance sheet and general ledger reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and support timely resolution.
• Financial Close: Execute assigned ledger close activities, ensuring completeness and accuracy of accounting information.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare and analyze financial reports, including profit and loss statements, income statements, and balance sheets, to support management decision-making.
• Intercompany Accounting: Review and reconcile intercompany transactions, supporting accurate recording and reporting.
• Accounting Compliance: Apply relevant GAAP requirements, maintain appropriate accounting documentation, and ensure journal entries meet internal and external audit specifications.
• Cross-Functional Accounting Support: Support accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, and related accounting activities when required.
• Process Improvement: Contribute to maintaining accounting policies, procedures, internal controls, and special accounting projects.

Qualifications & skills

• Hands-on experience in general ledger accounting, including preparation and posting of journal entries.
• Experience performing account reconciliations and supporting periodic general ledger close activities.
• Ability to prepare financial statements, including profit and loss statements, income statements, and balance sheets.
• Working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and their application to financial accounting.
• Understanding of internal and external audit documentation and compliance requirements relating to journal entries.
• Exposure to accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed asset accounting, or intercompany transactions.
• Experience contributing to accounting process improvements, policies, or procedures.
• Am I a qualified CA or CMA with 3–5 years of relevant accounting experience?.
• Do I have hands-on experience preparing journal entries, reconciling general ledger accounts, and supporting financial close activities?.

Oracle

Oracle Corporation is a US technology company, founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates and listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ORCL. It is best known for the Oracle Database, and today it also sells cloud business applications such as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, HCM and supply-chain software and NetSuite, runs its own public cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and, since buying Cerner in 2022, provides health-record systems through Oracle Health. Its headquarters are in Austin, Texas, and a new headquarters campus is being built in Nashville, Tennessee.

Oracle India Private Limited runs some of Oracle's largest teams outside the United States, with big centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad and offices in other cities, and Oracle operates cloud regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad. Most India roles are in software development, cloud operations and data centres, consulting, support and sales. Openings in Oracle's corporate functions, such as finance, revenue accounting and collections, and functional consulting on Oracle's own finance software are the ones that usually suit CA, CMA, MBA (Finance) and commerce profiles.

• Industry: Enterprise software and cloud — database, business applications and cloud infrastructure
• Headquarters: Austin, Texas, USA (new headquarters under construction in Nashville, Tennessee)
• In India: Large teams in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, with offices and Oracle Cloud data centres in Mumbai and other cities