Manager Corporate Accounting

Summary

The Corporate Accounting team’s responsibility is to ensure accurate accounting and reporting under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and company policies. This position will support and manage various financial reporting, fund accounting and other accounting services carried out by the team in accordance with corporate policies and procedures.

Internal Interfaces

• Pretium and its operating companies’ teams
• External Auditors

• Business Unit personnel and management per the relevant accounting activity or query
• Finance teams
• Internal Audit team
• Support (HR, IT, Administration, Facilities)

Job Requirements

Education

• At least B.Com graduate; M.Com, MBAs in Finance, ICWAs or CAs preferred

Relevant Experience

• 15+ years’ experience in financial accounting; real estate accounting, or property accounting a plus
• Hands-on General Ledger and Sub ledger accounting experience
• Knowledge of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is a plus

Technical Know-how/Tools used

• Advanced-level knowledge of accounting principles and professional accounting standards
• Expert Knowledge and ability to oversee, conduct and improve processes pertaining to recording, adjusting, and reconciling financial transactions and events
• Expert knowledge of tools, practices and considerations for general ledger; the ability to direct and manage company-wide general ledger processing
• Basic theoretical knowledge of tax accounting principles to appropriately record taxes.
• Expert knowledge of key finance concepts and ability to leverage them to guide process owners and oversee process improvements
• Advanced knowledge and ability to analyse financial statements and data to oversee process of preparing financial performance reports
• Advanced knowledge of statutory law and audit processes to examine and analyse the effectiveness of an organisation’s operations to provide assistance to Audit teams
• Advanced Knowledge and ability to create standard internal management reports & dashboards for the function
• Intermediate understanding of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound business decisions
• Advanced understanding of internal controls and ability to assist and oversee in the development of financial and accounting controls in compliance with legal and reporting requirements.
• Advanced knowledge and ability to collect, store and retrieve data to minimize duplications and oversee process of maintaining accurate data across organization
• Expert knowledge and ability to analyse data and oversee the development and simplification of the report generation process
• Advanced knowledge and application of automation tools and ability to leverage them to enhance process efficiencies, analysis and reporting
• Advanced knowledge and ability to leverage systems and applications to deliver and improve on operational processes, enable integration and provide data query/Support
• Advanced Knowledge and ability to understand and apply policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within a program
• Expertise in MS Office, Excel specifically
• Experience in property management software, such as Yardi is a plus

Behavioural Skills

• Ability to lead teams through ambiguous situations by virtue of organizational knowledge, insights, past experience and support teams to adapt their ways of working
• Ability to drive self and others in a team to be agile and build new ideas and creative approaches to address challenges
• Ability to ensure inclusiveness in ways of working with the team, acknowledging and uncovering unconscious biases, creating a trusting workplace
• Ability to drive strategy and adapt to new information and industry changes and shift team priorities when needed
• Ability to demonstrate strong knowledge of business strategies, metrics and trends impacting the achievement of business and enterprise goals in decision making
• Ability to map explicit, implicit and unstated needs of both existing & potential stakeholders leading to tailored delivery, continued relevance and higher satisfaction along with building trust and long-term relationship with stakeholders
• Ability to mentor and counsel team members, setting aside time for periodic coaching conversations and encourages conversation on purpose and career growth
• Ability to champion systems for shared learning, knowledge management and preservation, and suggests ways to incorporate learning across teams and engage in continuous learning
• Ability to set and act to reach challenging goals for self and others, with tactful prioritization and planning to attain goals and achieve exceptional performance and results
• Ability to make systematic effort to seamlessly obtain needed data or feedback for logical and data-driven solutioning and uses lateral thinking to solve problems
• Ability to encourage co-creation and leverage connections made to deliver results and respect conflicting opinions
• Ability to articulate both simple and complex ideas, practices active listening, can understand the main ideas of complex text & interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity in English

Roles & Responsibilities

Operational Excellence

• Perform the timely completion of the monthly accounting close for corporate entities of Pretium
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of general ledger accounts and financial statements prepared by Corporate Accounting team
• Review prepared financial statements such as Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Accounts, Trial Balances etc. to ensure compliance with the accounting standards