Manager R2R

Job Title: Manager R2R

Location: Bangalore 

Experience: 10+ Years

Qualification: B.Com , M.Com & MBA

Skillsets: R2R , SAP, Record to Report

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Month end close activities for 100% of NN affiliates (~115 affiliates) across region AAMEO, Europe, North America, LATAM, China and Japan & Korea.
• Manage overall performance of the Accounting in GSC Finance (KPIs and Monthly Reporting).
• Manage overall performance of any other areas of Affiliates off-shored to GSC Finance in areas of transaction processing.
• Strong accounting and analytical skills. Be critical about the methods used, where relevant, and come up with new ideas and drive the implementation of the same
• Coordinates and contributes to accounting processes and projects with material financial statement impact and exposure.
• Good knowledge of multiple systems and data flows.
• Manage high-level tasks with short deadlines as well as operational tasks with high energy and quality
• Ensures that monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial close schedules are met
• Identify and implement opportunities in the existing process to drive a consistent and common approach across entities.
• Identify, report, track, and resolve issues and offer suggestions for system/process improvement
• Monthly/Quarterly interaction with all stakeholders across all regions, reviewing operational status of respective company code, addressing their concerns, if any, obtaining feedback and taking corrective actions, where necessary
• Based on Customer Survey result, collect feedback from each region with respect to area of improvement and take necessary actions
• Sound knowledge of internal control concepts and processes. Drive implementation of new internal and external policies (Accounting manual, SARBOX etc)
• Proactively work towards increasing internal controls and process efficiencies
• Ensure that all SARBOX controls are performed on time and as described in the Internal Control Questionnaire (ICQ), including self-assessment on all SARBOX controls 
• Setting of operational goals for each team leads/business analysts, monitoring of performance and providing timely feedback/direction
• Develop team leads/business analysts’ competencies to ensure that processes are well understood and performed as intended
• Ensure team leads/business analysts have adequate knowledge of the systems, e.g. SAP, Concur, BW etc  

Job Description:

• Minimum 10+ years of relevant work experience, working within Finance Offshoring centres
• Minimum 4+ years as team leader/Associate manager for any Finance process in offshoring centre
• Strong accounting & analytical skills
• Project management skills, including change management skills
• Strong proven people and performance management skills
• Experience working with Global stakeholders is preferred
• Can operate on strategic, tactic and operational level; preferably strong skills on service culture and delivery, process standardization and optimization
• Experience with working in an international company
• LEAN / Six Sigma experience
• Knowledge of SAP is MUST
•  Strong people management and stakeholder management skills
• Self-driven with a desire to influence
•  Pro-activeness and ability to follow through
•  Pleasantly persistent
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Fluent in oral and written English
• Collaborative, flexible and entrepreneurial
• Willing to invest time and effort in personal development
• Flexible to accommodate changes in priorities