Associate - Accounting Operations

Job Description

• Position: Associate / Senior Associate - Accounting Operations
• Location: NBS India / Hyderabad
• Experience: 2-7 years
• Qualification: CA Inter / CMA Inter / MBA Finance / M.Com / B.Com

Main Purpose of the Role

Execute end-to-end Accounting Operations activities to ensure accurate financial records, timely period-end closing, balance sheet integrity, regulatory compliance, and delivery against agreed service levels. Contribute to standardization, automation, continuous improvement, and effective stakeholder collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute balance sheet and bank reconciliations, investigate aged items, and ensure timely resolution of open items.
• Perform General Ledger accounting, journal entries, accruals, provisions, adjustments, fixedassets accounting, and intercompany activities.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing and reporting.
• Maintain compliance with accounting standards, internal controls, company policies, and audit requirements.
• Deliver activities within defined quality, accuracy, and service-level requirements.
• Coordinate with markets, auditors, retained organizations, and cross-functional teams to address accounting queries and escalations.
• Identify opportunities for process standardization, simplification, automation, and productivity improvement.
• Maintain process documentation and support knowledge transfer and business continuity requirements.

Key Success Measures

• Accurate and timely completion of accounting activities
• Adherence to the period-end close calendar
• Quality and timeliness of account reconciliations
• Reduction of aged and unresolved open items
• Compliance with controls and audit requirements
• Achievement of agreed service levels
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Delivery of productivity, standardization, and automation improvements

What Success Looks Like

A successful role holder consistently delivers accurate, timely, and compliant accounting services; maintains strong balance sheet governance; resolves issues proactively; builds trusted stakeholder relationships; and contributes to the digital transformation and continuous improvement of NBS Accounting Operations.

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