Accounting Team Lead
Posted
- Lead a team responsible for the monthly analysis of accounts (TB, Balance Sheet, P&L), ensuring accuracy and correctness of the accounts, and providing insights and explanations on monthly movements, to a portfolio of complex clients.
- Be a Subject Matter Expert for GL / RTR / PTP / OTC, Financial reporting, and Statutory reporting related topics.
- Lead a team responsible for preparing Balance Sheet and P&L reconciliations, with the aim of ensuring the high quality and reliability of accounting records prepared by other TMF teams, and resolution of open items. Assess BS healthiness and surface risks to be addressed.
- Provide a set of financial information related to P&L and Balance Sheet during the monthly cycle to ensure accurate and timely postings of financial transactions, in order to deliver a timely period-end close. Activities include (but are not limited to) research & analysis of entries, preparation & review of journals, etc.
- Review the work prepared by other Team members to ensure that the activities are performed as expected.
- Perform in timely and accurate manner general accounting tasks including but not limited to processing journal entries, calculation of accruals, posting, and process allocations.
- Work with managers and team members to execute the TMF objectives and Goals as set by higher management.
- Work with the other TMF teams to ensure activities carried out are correct and assist in resolving queries and or issues; manage period end close. Review the documentation for certain month-end control process, ensuring full compliance with pre-defined requirements. Support control remediation where required.
- Produce routine analyses, schedules, and summaries for internal & external customers.
- Prepare, coordinate with external auditors and clients on audit deliverables as required.
- Able to coach and motivate a high-performance team member to achieve targets and service levels agreed (SLA).
- Engage with key internal and external finance and non-finance stakeholders as required and manage positive relationships.
- Contribute to and lead automation, standardization and improvements and drive these activities within the Team and with the Local Offices.
- Comply with TMF and Client accounting standards, policies, and procedures.
- Support, follow-up and escalation of identified issues.
- Understand, monitor, and take proper action regarding KPIs.
- Responsible for process and review of documentation i.e SOP (including creation and updates as required).
- Perform other related duties as and when assigned by manager.