Senior Financial Analyst, Global Accounting
Location
India, Remote
Employment Status
Regular, Full-Time or Part-Time
Reports To
Global Finance/Operations Leadership
Supervisory Responsibilities
Day-to-day leadership and supervision of India-based accounting staff
Salary Range
₹25,00,000 to ₹29,00,000 per annum
ABOUT RAP
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is an independent, mission-driven global organization working to advance a clean, reliable, and equitable energy future. Our teams work across the United States, Europe, China, India, and other markets, bringing together policy, technical, and regional expertise to address complex energy challenges.
RAP is entering an important period of organizational growth and evolution. As our global operations become increasingly interconnected, we are strengthening the systems, processes, and shared capabilities that support our work. Finance plays an important role in this evolution by ensuring strong financial stewardship while building more integrated, efficient, and scalable ways of working across the organization.
JOB SUMMARY
The Senior Financial Analyst, acts a senior hands-on finance professional responsible for strengthening RAP's accounting operations, financial analysis, management reporting, forecasting, and internal controls.
The position leads RAP's India-based accounting team and works closely with the United States-based Accounting Manager and organizational leadership to ensure financial information is accurate, timely, well-controlled, and useful for organizational decision-making. This position combines technical accounting leadership with financial planning and analysis and will play a central role in transferring accounting activities from external providers to internal staff.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Team Leadership
- Provide day-to-day leadership, work coordination, and technical guidance to India-based accounting staff.
- Establish priorities and deadlines in coordination with the Accounting Manager and Finance leadership.
- Review accounting work, reconciliations, analyses, and schedules prepared by team members.
- Coach and develop staff and establish appropriate cross-training and coverage.
- Monitor workload, quality, and completion of deliverables and escalate significant technical, control, performance, or capacity concerns.
- Establish clear accountability, documentation, and review standards.
Accounting and Financial Controls
- Provide senior review of monthly and year-end close activities.
- Review complex journal entries, accruals, estimates, reclassifications, and account analyses.
- Review significant balance-sheet reconciliations and investigate unresolved or recurring items.
- Support application of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and nonprofit accounting requirements.
- Review grant and restricted-funding accounting, intercompany activity, multi-entity reconciliations, and multi-currency accounting.
- Identify weaknesses in accounting processes and recommend corrective actions while maintaining appropriate segregation of duties and review controls.
Financial Planning and Analysis
- Lead recurring budget-to-actual and variance analysis.
- Develop and maintain rolling organizational and cash-flow forecasts.
- Support annual budgeting and periodic reforecasting.
- Develop financial models and scenario analyses.
- Analyze staffing costs, grant utilization, indirect costs, cost recovery, resource allocation, and labor costs.
- Identify emerging financial risks and trends and translate financial results into clear recommendations for management.
Management and Board Reporting
- Develop recurring monthly and quarterly management reporting.
- Prepare financial schedules, analyses, and narratives for executive leadership and support Board financial packages.
- Develop and maintain financial dashboards and key performance indicators.
- Improve consistency, accuracy, and automation of recurring reporting and ensure management reporting reconciles to underlying accounting records.
Grants and Global Finance
- Provide senior financial analysis of restricted and unrestricted funding.
- Review grant budgets, actual expenditures, projected utilization, and grant-related financial reporting.
- Support grant revenue recognition and consistent global accounting and reporting practices.
- Partner with Finance colleagues, payroll providers, external accountants, and auditors across jurisdictions.
Audit, Systems and Process Improvement
- Coordinate preparation of assigned audit schedules and support external audit requests and remediation of findings.
- Serve as a senior user of Sage Intacct and related financial systems.
- Build advanced Microsoft Excel models and reporting tools using functions such as Power Query, pivot tables, and advanced formulas.
- Support Power BI or other dashboard development where appropriate.
- Reconcile information across accounting, payroll, grants, and timekeeping systems.
- Develop accounting and reporting standard operating procedures and identify opportunities to automate recurring finance processes.
Interim Finance Transformation Responsibilities Through December 2026
- Lead operational knowledge transfer from RAP's outsourced accounting provider.
- Establish a formal process inventory, account ownership matrix, and standardized monthly close calendar.
- Establish reconciliation preparation and review standards and identify historical or recurring balance-sheet issues.
- Support remediation of accounting discrepancies and control weaknesses.
- Establish recurring management reporting, rolling forecasts, cash-flow analysis, dashboards, and key performance indicators.
- Review resource allocation, labor costing, indirect costs, cost-recovery methodologies, and intercompany reconciliation processes.
- Support audit readiness and identify activities suitable for internal ownership versus continued specialist external support.
- Provide recommendations regarding the future global finance operating model.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or related field.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive accounting and finance experience.
- Strong knowledge of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
- Significant general ledger, close, financial reporting, forecasting, and variance-analysis experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading accounting staff and reviewing complex reconciliations.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills.
- Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
- Strong analytical judgment, problem-solving capability, and professional fluency in English.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Chartered Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, or comparable professional qualification.
- United States nonprofit accounting, Financial Accounting Standards Board reporting, grant, or fund accounting experience.
- Sage Intacct, Power Query, and Power BI experience.
- Multi-entity, intercompany, and multi-currency experience.
- Experience supporting a United States-headquartered organization from India.
- Board or executive financial reporting experience.
- Experience within a global capability center, multinational organization, or international nonprofit.
Annual Base Salary: ₹25,00,000 to ₹29,00,000 per annum
Placement within the range will be based on relevant experience, technical capability, professional qualifications, and demonstrated readiness for the scope of the position. Benefits will be provided in accordance with RAP's applicable India benefits program and statutory requirements.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
- RAP leadership receives reliable financial information and meaningful forward-looking analysis. Close and reconciliation processes are controlled and predictable, recurring problems are investigated to root cause, and the India finance team operates with increasing independence. The Senior Manager reduces dependence on external providers while strengthening internal capability, controls, reporting, and financial decision support.
Pay: ₹2,500,000.00 - ₹2,900,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Provident Fund
- Work from home
Work Location: Remote
