Assistant Manager - Assurance - National - ASU - FAAS

Job Summary

The opportunity: Assistant Manager-National-Assurance-ASU - FAAS - FinancialAccountingAdv - Bangalore

National comprises sector-agnostic teams working across industries for a well-rounded experience.

ASU - FAAS - FinancialAccountingAdv :

Assurance's purpose is to inspire confidence and trust to enable a complex world to work. We do so by protecting and serving the public interest, promoting transparency, supporting investor confidence and economic growth and nurturing talent to provide future business leaders. We help clients by:

• 1) Ensuring their accounts comply with the requisite audit standards
• 2) Providing a robust and clear perspective to audit committees and
• 3) Providing critical information for stakeholders.

Our service offerings include External Audit, Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS), IFRS US GAAP conversion, IPO and other public offerings, Corporate Treasury - IFaccounting implementation support, etc.

Responsibilities

• Support General Ledger and sub-ledger integration, accounting rules, posting logic, and reconciliation design.
• Maintain ledger process maps, accounting treatment documentation, and end-to-end data lineage from source to GL.
• Assess accounting impacts of product/process changes (e.g., new booking models, new feeds, new legal entity requirements).
• Support designing of target operating model and target ledger architecture (including controls and governance).
• Translate Finance requirements into functional specifications, ensuring traceability from requirement design test sign-off.
• Collaborate with Technology to shape solution options, assess trade-offs, and ensure designs meet non-functional requirements (resilience, performance, auditability).
• Define and strengthen ledger controls: completeness, accuracy, timeliness, segregation of duties, and audit trails.
• Drive improvements to reconciliations (sub-ledger to GL, intercompany, suspense, breaks management) and close efficiency.
• Support Finance in ensuring robust period-end close processes and operational readiness for change releases.
• Ensure solutions align with relevant accounting standards and regulatory expectations (e.g., IFRS, local GAAP where applicable).
• Support internal/external audit, model risk, and operational risk reviews by providing evidence, walkthroughs, and remediation plans.
• Contribute to governance forums (design authority, change control, risk acceptance) and ensure appropriate approvals are obtained.

Essential Experience

• Strong experience in ledger/finance change within a large bank (GL, sub-ledgers, accounting rules, reconciliations, close).
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end functional design and delivery across complex data flows and multiple source systems.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, audit requirements, and operational risk in a regulated environment.
• Experience with testing (SIT/UAT), including defining test strategy, test scenarios, and supporting defect triage.

Desirable Experience

• Exposure to IFRS/GAAP topics relevant to banking products (e.g., accruals, fees, hedging, impairments).
• Experience with ledger platforms and integration patterns (e.g., SAP/Oracle GL, Murex/Calypso accounting feeds, ETL/data lakes).
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, and reporting controls.
• Experience in large-scale transformation programmes (multi-entity, multi-country).

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (CA/ ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) preferred, or MBA Finance

Experience

• 3-6 years of strong relevant experience

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