Accountant II

Elasticsearch B.V.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching up to $2000

Volunteer hours up to 40 per year

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Elasticsearch B.V. in India is seeking a General Ledger Accountant to support the US-based team. You will manage daily ledger entries across cash, fixed assets, prepaids, and payroll, reporting to the Accounting Manager and coordinating with Treasury, AR, AP, FP&A, Tax, and Auditors.

You will own month-end close activities, reconcile balances, and provide documentation for audits. This role requires 5–8 years in a public company, international currencies, and advanced Excel skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or local equivalent) in Accounting (mandatory)
• Robust analytical skillset and multitasking capabilities, adherence to deadlines
• Strong attention to detail
• 5-8 years experience in a publicly traded company (ideally hyper-growth tech)
• Experience with foreign currency and multiple international subsidiaries (EMEA, APAC, North America) (preferred)
• Flexibility to work cross functionally monthly within various department workgroups across time zones
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables and VLOOKUPs.
• Knowledge of NetSuite, US bank portals (i.e. Citibank), Workday (preferred)
• Experience with US GAAP reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and internal controls
• Flexibility to scale to different opportunities as they arise within the department as the company grows to broaden your overall skill set.

Responsibilities

• Process daily bank information and prepare appropriate journal entries for NetSuite
• Oversee prepaid and fixed assets amortization schedules
• Assist with payroll transactions processing for our global organization
• Analyze and reconcile complex general ledger balance sheet accounts and explain variances
• Prepare adjusting journal entries for balance sheet reconciliation and quarter-end close
• Communicate across departments to resolve outstanding reconciliation items for month end close
• Ensure accurate general ledger reporting in the accounting system with internal controls
• Prepare and supply documentation for annual audit and quarterly reviews with external auditors
• Participate in special projects as needed

Skills

General ledger

Financial analysis

Month-end close

Cross-functional

Multi-currency

Attention to detail

Excel pivots & VLOOKUP

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

Tools

NetSuite

Workday

Citibank

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role:

The Accounting team is seeking a General Ledger Accountant in India, to support our US-based team. This person will perform the day-to-day ledger entries primarily in respect to cash, fixed assets, prepaids, and payroll transactions. Our business is growing very quickly and while you will be empowered to take ownership of your work product, there will be times that action will be required without extensive up-front guidance, but you would never go it alone. Reporting to the local Accounting Manager, you will work with many groups within and outside of Elastic, including: Treasury, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Consolidations, FP&A, Tax, Internal Audit and external auditors and consultants as needed.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Process daily bank information: download daily bank statements and prepare appropriate journal entries for upload into NetSuite
• Oversee prepaid and fixed assets amortization schedules
• Assist with payroll transactions processing for our global organization
• Analyze and maintain complex general ledger balance sheet accounts by gathering data, reconciling the general ledger control accounts to sub-ledgers, and explaining variances
• Prepare adjusting journal entries resulting from the balance sheet reconciliation process, variance analysis, and quarter-end close
• Communicate across the departments to resolve outstanding reconciliation items in a timely manner for month end close
• Ensure the accurate reporting of general ledger accounting in the company’s accounting system by performing key accounting internal controls
• Participate in preparing and supplying documentation for the annual audit and quarterly reviews with external auditors, internal audit SOX control requests, other accounting team data requests, and executive management special projects
• Participate in special projects as needed

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree (or local equivalent) in Accounting (mandatory)
• Robust analytical skillset and multitasking capabilities, adherence to deadlines
• Strong attention to detail
• 5-8 years experience working in a publicly traded company (ideally hyper-growth tech)
• Experience with foreign currency and multiple international subsidiaries EMEA, APAC, North America (preferred)
• Flexibility to work cross functionally monthly within various department workgroups located in various time zones (i.e. Hire-to-Retire, Procure-to-Pay-Prepaids, Fixed Assets, and Accruals)
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables and VLOOKUPs.
• Knowledge of NetSuite, US bank portals (i.e. Citibank), Workday (preferred)
• Experience with US GAAP reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and internal controls
• Flexibility to scale to different opportunities as they arise within the department as the company grows to broaden your overall skill set.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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