Senior Associate Specialist, Accounting

Position Overview:

Looking for Chartered Accountant with 2-3 years of post-qualification experience or 4-5 of experience as a Semi Qualified Chartered Accountant into Internal Audit/Internal Controls testing/ Internal audit along with knowledge general ledger accounting and other end-to-end business process in SAP S4 HANA environment. Responsible for executing and documenting Internal Control testing, performing walkthroughs, identify gaps and provide possible solutions along with involvement in different process reviews across finance and other operations ensuring its alignment with devised annual plan.

Responsibilities:

1. Perform Internal Control testing for finance, operational and compliance process ensuring alignment with SOX framework in accordance with the annual plan.
2. Conduct in depth process walkthrough, understand the focus areas, gather SOPs, policies and procedures, process flowcharts, ability to identify the risk areas and contribute to overall improvement in different process by leveraging experience from SAP S4 HANA.
3. Document all testing procedures, collect the evidence/gathering information, SOP, desk procedures and document the test results in structured manner ensuring its clarity and completeness of testing/reviews being conducted.
4. Track the status of work allocated for each different projects involved and highlight/suggest the areas of improvement or potential risk factors for each process including effective verbal and written communication in presenting the test results.
5. Collaborate with different process owners and cross functional leads across different regions such as IT, Finance, Commercial operations etc to discuss findings, suggest an ideas/process improvement, gathering evidence, follow up queries.
6. Effective communication, stay informed on best practices, attention to the detail, promote a culture of accountability, compliance and continuous learning by being proactive and ability to learn and enhance skill sets by delivering valuable results in time.

Qualifications:

1. Required Chartered Accountant with minimum 2-3 years of experience into Internal Controls and process reviews and hands on experience in SAP S4 HANA or 4-5 of experience as a Semi Qualified Chartered Accountant into Internal Audit/Internal Controls
2. Preferable experience into Manufacturing sector and having good knowledge on Internal audit/Internal controls.
3. Strong interpersonal skills and foundation in accounting, risk management, Internal Control framework, SOX compliance.
4. Competence in MS Excel (Pivot tables, lookups, Data analysis) MS Power points.
5. Familiarity with IT tools (Workiva, SharePoint etc.)