Business Partnership
- Provide accounting expertise and business partnership across the India Business Unit and the Asia based GEMS business teams primarily in Order-to-Cash: Revenue, Trade, Consumer and related processes (3 markets)
- Collaborate with other GMI functions to improve the processes that interact with accounting; increase results through strong relationships.
- Collaborate across functions and communicate with leadership to drive the accuracy of financial results, functional excellence, and development of accounting and controls capabilities throughout the organization.
- Build functional excellence in accounting capability, across the order-to-cash space and ensure balance between GAO strategy and business needs.
- Partner to provide technical accounting support to other functions based on agreed project plans. Examples include business model changes, E-commerce, etc.
Accounting Functional Excellence
- Follow and comply with company policy, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and current financial legislation for financial statements.
- Follow and comply with Local statutory requirements.
- Own the quality and timely completion of statutory audit and filings for the 1 jurisdiction of India.
- Collaborate with FP&A to ensure accuracy of management reporting
- Monitor and review results completed by outsourced partner and centers of excellence to ensure process accurately meets accounting needs.
- Maintain and oversee relevant accounting procedures, controls, and processes.
- Develop sustainable solutions for all identified control gaps and ensure they are implemented in a manner consistent with global standard process.
- Ensure an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year-end close, and ensure the timely reporting of all monthly financial information. This includes managing issues escalated from shared services.
- Review and approve transactions as defined by operational accounting policy or governance requirements
Organizational leadership
- Lead and develop team of ~5 professional staff members.
- Proactively identify where work can be automated, standardized, and centralized to further streamline processes and strengthen financial controls.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and functional excellence, influence the global standards as part of the global commercial accounting Community of Practice.
