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Wipro; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

CLIENT in Pune, India, seeks a Chief Accounting Officer to lead the India finance function, including group finance, statutory and regulatory reporting. The role partners with London to drive transformation, strengthen controls, and deliver accurate financial information to management and regulators.

The candidate will mentor managers and manage audits, working across cross-functional teams to support CLIENT's growth and maintain high-quality financial reporting.

Qualifications

• 15+ years PQE in financial reporting, financial regulatory reporting or financial control.
• Qualified Accountant - ACA or equivalent.
• IFRS GAAP experience and exposure to regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead India's group finance team in Pune, starting with legal entity control and expanding to FP&A, Revenue and Cost control, and regulatory reporting.
• Collaborate with London-based finance leaders to develop the Pune team.
• Serve as trusted advisor to CFOs and heads of finance.
• Drive transformation initiatives and best-practices adoption.
• Mentor AD/Senior managers and grow the team.
• Oversee annual subsidiary audits and external audits.

Skills

Financial Reporting

Regulatory Reporting

IFRS/GAAP

Leadership & Mentoring

Education

ACA or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Job Title: Chief accounting officer – Finance India D1

Location: Pune, India

Reporting to: Head of Finance Operations - Director (London based)

FCA-regulated alternative asset manager with over 30 years' history, managing $~127bn of assets and investing across the capital structure. We provide flexible capital solutions to help companies develop and grow. We operate across four asset classes: Structured and Private Equity, Private Debt, Real Assets, and Credit. The business employs approximately 800 people in 15 countries around the world and is well positioned for growth and benefits from the long-term trend of increased demand for alternative investments.

To make the most of your career at CLIENT, you will be inquisitive, self-motivated, engaged, collaborative and agile. CLIENT is a place where we are all dedicated to achieving common goals.

Our teams describe CLIENT as ambitious, collaborative, empowered, entrepreneurial, professional and acting with integrity. We translated these attributes into a core set of values and, together with our purpose, this represents who we are today and whom we aspire to be tomorrow.

For three decades we have been constantly striving for excellence in all aspects of our business. Whether that is through the people who join us, how we support and develop them throughout their career, and the culture we create and live in. It is also evident in the role we play in society through the investments we make, our charity work and what we stand for.

We relentlessly pursue our ambition to provide an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has plenty of opportunities to contribute, succeed and be themselves.

Position Summary:

The Financial Control team consists of approximately 70 employees, based primarily out of London and Pune, responsible for the preparation and review of all internal and external financial and regulatory information for the CLIENT PLC Group.

The Chief accounting officer, India is a member of the Group Financial Control team, reporting to the Head of Finance Operations in London. The Group Financial Control team are responsible for the internal and external financial and regulatory reporting prepared for the Board, Shareholders and regulators of the CLIENT Group. This includes, but is not limited to, the quarterly financial statements, monthly management reports and regulatory returns. In addition, the team supports management and the wider business in assessing the impact of accounting and business developments.

The Chief Accounting Officer, India is a senior leadership role within Group Financial Control, reporting to the Head of Finance Operations in London. The role is responsible for building and scaling CLIENT's finance capability in Pune, leading financial control, statutory and regulatory reporting, and supporting the delivery of accurate, timely financial information to management, the Board, shareholders and regulators. The position will partner closely with global finance leaders to drive operational excellence, strengthen the control environment, lead strategic finance transformation initiatives, and develop a scalable finance infrastructure to support CLIENT's continued growth. The role will actively support the Group Financial Controller in building and ensuring the Financial Control function operates to the highest level of quality, delivering timely and accurate financials and management information to its key internal and external stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the Company's ongoing development of India's group finance team in Pune starting with legal entity control function and further expanding to all aspects of Finance functions which includes Supplier solutions, FP&A, Revenue and Cost control, Balance sheet Investments and substantiation, regulatory returns and financial reporting
• Work closely with CLIENT Head of Finance & Finance director and other peers in London on all areas covering leading and developing finance team in Pune.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to CFOs, head of finance , controllers
• Drive transformation initiatives from India and best practices adoption
• Demonstrated ability to build capabilities, scale teams and drive operational excellence
• Manage all aspects of the yearly subsidiary audits and all related disclosures, delivering timely and accurate statutory reporting and be the key face off to the external auditors.
• Contribute to the monthly Group financial control close process, overseeing all relevant assigned aspects of data preparation for ingestion into the ERP, and following through to reviewing the relevant accounting output from the ERP, ensuring all facets align with expectations, and conducting other requisite analytical reviews and substantiation checks.
• Deliver timely and accurate monthly cost reporting, including generating key insights and explains to cost drivers with respect to variances of actuals to prior periods and the budget
• Review and oversee regulatory reporting for CLIENT regulated entities, typically encompassing accounting, capital, liquidity, and assets under management data
• Ensure a robust control environment underpins the reporting deliverables. Contribute to the teams development of enhanced control frameworks
• Evaluate existing processes and booking model changes
• Work with our internal Tax team to manage the tax elements of our financials
• Mentor and develop AD/Senior managers, managers and manage and support the growth of other team members
• Lead and deliver on several key finance and wider CLIENT Group projects
• Develop a knowledge through time of the various key Investments/Assets held on the PLC's balance sheet, across the various strategies of Corporate Investments, Capital Markets, Real Assets (Real Estate and Infrastructure Equity), and Private Equity Secondaries
• Develop knowledge and implement key accounting changes and pronouncements such as IFRS 18

Key Requirements/ Qualifications:

• 15+ years PQE in either/and: Financial Reporting, Financial Regulatory Reporting or Financial Control
• Qualified Accountant- ACA or equivalent
• Past Organisations: Publicly listed organisations, Asset Managers, PE & Venture Capital, Other Financial Services and / or Tier I Consulting/Professional Services firms
• Role requires individual to travel at least twice a year for a week or two to work with CLIENT's global colleagues in their European office
• IFRS GAAP experience and background in producing IFRS compliant Annual Financial Statements
• Familiarity with risk and control self-assessment frameworks such as RCSA's and SOX compliance

CLIENT will provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment. No employee will be discriminated against in hiring or employment because of race, colour, sex, age, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, ancestry, military status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.