Senior Accountant
Maintains bookkeeping, general ledger, reconciliations, tax support, payroll accounting, and close processes for international entities. Requires 6+ years of accounting experience, CA qualification, ERP and NetSuite experience, advanced Excel skills, and familiarity with IFRS, US GAAP, and local standards.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day bookkeeping and general ledger maintenance for international entities in NetSuite.
- Prepare and post monthly journal entries, including accruals, prepayments, payroll, and intercompany recharges.
- Perform monthly balance-sheet account reconciliations and resolve open items.
- Work with accounts payable and accounts receivable teams to ensure accurate accounting treatment.
- Support data preparation for direct and indirect tax returns and coordinate with external consultants.
- Process accounts payable and employee travel and expense reimbursements, ensuring timely payments, policy compliance, accurate coding, and proper documentation.
- Assist with withholding-tax calculations, deductions, deposits, and monthly or quarterly returns.
- Work with external consultants on financial statements and regulatory compliance for international entities.
- Reconcile payroll processor output to NetSuite and create and reconcile monthly payroll journal entries.
- Prepare supporting schedules and documentation for annual statutory audits and coordinate with auditors on open items.
- Assist with monthly and quarterly close activities, meeting deadlines and proactively flagging issues.
- Identify manual processes that can be automated and support process-improvement initiatives.
- Prepare monthly flux analysis, balance-sheet schedules, and statutory-to-US-GAAP reporting schedules, including investigation and resolution of reconciling items.
- Maintain accounting schedules for accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, leases, provisions, intercompany balances, bank reconciliations, and foreign-exchange revaluation.
- Identify opportunities for AI-led automation across reconciliations, recurring journals, close checklists, reporting schedules, and audit support, and help build AI agents for accounting use cases.
Requirements
- 6+ years of accounting experience, including at least 4 years in a hands-on role at a multinational company or Big Four/mid-tier CA firm.
- CA (Final) qualification required; CPA or an equivalent international qualification is a plus.
- Working knowledge of statutory compliance in different countries and indirect and direct tax returns.
- Familiarity with IFRS, US GAAP, Ind AS, and other local accounting standards in a technology-company context.
- Hands-on ERP experience; NetSuite experience strongly preferred.
- Advanced Excel skills, including building and maintaining reconciliation templates, schedules, and close trackers.
- Detail-oriented and organized, with experience meeting close deadlines and maintaining clean, auditable workpapers.
- Clear, proactive communication and effective collaboration in remote, asynchronous, cross-functional, and cross-cultural teams.
- A process-minded approach with ownership, accountability, self-direction, and an interest in AI, automation, and systems improvement.
Work Arrangement
- Fully remote from a home office in India, with some overlapping hours with the global finance team.
Skills
NetSuite, Excel, Ifrs, US GAAP, Ind As, Bookkeeping, General Ledger, Account Reconciliation, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll Accounting, Tax Compliance, Financial Statements, Statutory Audit, Foreign Exchange
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