Job Title: Consulting - Controllership - Senior Consultant/Manager
Consulting - Financial Controllership | Senior Consultant/Manager
Location - Pan India
What impact will you make?
Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivaled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.
The Team
Business leaders must act with conviction, even in an era of growing complexity, uncertainty, and disruption. These business leaders need clear, concise, well-informed perspectives on the important dynamics that are currently reshaping their business environments. Our global network of Consulting professionals draws on the strength of Deloitte’s full suite of professional services and industry experience to focus solutions on the real issues affecting businesses today. We work collaboratively with our clients to link strategic vision to flawless execution to achieve tangible, long-term value. From developing a pragmatic strategy and evaluating M&A opportunities to improving finance and operations functions, we have the experience and expertise to help clients act with certainty and thrive.
Work you’ll do
The primary role of a Senior Consultant/Manager is to make immediate, direct contributions to enhancing our clients’ competitive position and performance in ways that are distinctive, innovative, and sustainable. Your day-to-day responsibilities will primarily include controllership activities such as financial accounting and reporting, statutory or regulatory reporting and managing processes related to financial close. You will be tasked with the preparation of accurate monthly financial reports and presentations that provide thoughtful analysis, identification of action items, and effectively framing decisions that need to be made.
Key Responsibilities
- Review, process, gather and compile accounting transactions and documents throughout the month for completeness, accuracy and compliance with general accounting principles and established internal control policies and procedures
- Ensure financial integrity and timely execution of monthly, quarterly and year end close processes
- Partner with stakeholders across divisions to improve financial and accounting accuracy
- Record and review journal entries related to Divisional branch results
- Review and investigate reconciliation variances, assist management in developing appropriate action plans to address issues identified
- Provide support for internal and external audits including control walkthroughs, documentation support and inquiry response
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and coordinate cross-functionally to meet strict project execution deadlines
Professional should have:
- Good understanding of financial or public accounting
- Good working knowledge of accounting standards (US/UK GAAP/IFRS), account reconciliations, and month end close procedures
- Good working knowledge of statutory accounts, audit and preparation and consolidation of financial statements
- Experience in process simplification & transformation, lean methodology, controls, governance, exposure to audits and experience in functioning in a regulated process eco-system.
- Prior experience in dealing with Global teams and stakeholders
- Proficiency with MS Office suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Proficient computer, financial data, internal consulting, and customer-focused communication and presentation skills
- Strong organizational skills with proven ability to follow through on multiple tasks and priorities
- Superior attention to detail while managing multiple competing priorities
- Good written and verbal communication skills and should be able to handle all client communications independently
- Proficient computer, financial data, internal consulting, and customer-focused communication and presentation skills
- Excellent planning and organizing skills, especially prioritizing multiple projects/tasks
- Proactively identifies workstream risks and issues; resolves or escalates to engagement/account leadership
- Identifies opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of key processes within a business function
- Demonstrated project discipline and experience
- Must be organized, focused, and driven to meet established deliverable deadlines
- Assumes responsibility for own work or workstream meeting engagement/project objectives and Deloitte quality standards
Qualifications & Experience
- Chartered Accountants will be preferred
- CA Intermediate qualified are also eligible for the role
- 7 to 10 years of relevant experience in statutory reporting, controllership activities and financial accounting and reporting
Location
- Any city in India (Strong preference for Pune and Bangalore)
Shift Timings
- Open to working in US and/or UK shifts
Other Skills/Preferences
- Good understanding of insurance brokerage business
- Valid Indian Passport with at least one year remaining before expiry
- Candidates with existing US Visa and/or UK Visa will be preferred (at least one year remaining)
- Willingness to travel for short and long term durations as per the requirement(s)
- Good working knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley requirements
- Leadership skills and ability to work with multiple teams
- Ability to forge meaningful and well-established relationships with multiple stakeholders
- Must be able to work with the onshore team to understand and transition various processes
- Must possess analytical skills to filter, prioritize, analyze and validate information and an ability to solve complex business problems
- Must be able to identify and resolve issues/risks in a dynamic work-environment
Your role as a leader
At Deloitte India, we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.
- Actively focuses on developing effective communication and relationship-building skills
- Builds own understanding of our purpose and values; explores opportunities for impact
- Understands expectations and demonstrates personal accountability for keeping performance on track
- Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business
- Demonstrates strong commitment to personal learning and development; acts as a brand ambassador to help attract top talent
How you’ll grow
At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Centre.
Benefits
At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits.
Our purpose
Deloitte is led by a purpose: To make an impact that matters.
Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the Communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change.
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