Junior GL Accountant Bangalore

Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Support GL accounting activities
• Assist with posting and processing journal entries to ensure all financial transactions are recorded
• Assist with account reconciliations
• Assist in preparing financial statements for reporting purposes
• Assist in period-end close activities in a timely and accurate manner in line with fiscal close calendar
• Raise any issues or queries requiring judgement and expertise with other GL accounting team members
• Support GL accounting team on any other ad hoc requests
• Ensure GL accounting team compliance
• Perform prescribed GL accounting activities within accounting principles and regulatory requirements and ensure all transactions adhere to them
• Ensure period end close activities are compliant with the fiscal close calendar, ensuring adequate time for collaboration with various teams impacted
• Ensuring all R2R controls are adhered to and documented appropriately
• Apply knowledge to accurately record all financial transactions and maintain supporting documentation
• Collaborate with others
• Establish relationships and credibility with GL accounting team as well as cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with other SSC process delivery teams to exchange information, as required, and support process improvement where dependencies may exist

Skills & Experience

• Strong English language skills.
• Working MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret financial data.
• Basic understanding and enforcement of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant SSC operations.
• Basic knowledge of core finance systems, ERP and related specialty functional systems, frameworks, and functionality
• Basic understanding of accounting principles, procedures, and methods e.g., accrual, obligation, and cost methods
• Ability to complete accounting tasks/procedures at a basic level with limited supervision.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality of work.