Financial Analyst III, FOAA

HITACHI VANTARA INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara India Private Limited in Bengaluru seeks a senior finance professional to own the global accounting close, post journals, and prepare reconciliations. You will drive month-end activities, support global reporting, and partner with operations to meet the annual operating plan.

The role emphasizes strong Excel/KPI analytics, automation for process improvements, and leadership across cross-functional teams to ensure robust financial controls and timely insights for leadership

Qualifications

• 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 3+ years of advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience.
• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience.
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience.
• 7+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience.
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience.
• Qualified Chartered Accountant

Responsibilities

• Own financial reporting and may teach others; deliver complete month-end close of Accounts Payable accounting functions, reporting decks, reconciliations, etc. Ensure processes are efficient and compliant; implement improvements; manage internal controls and audit responses.
• Stakeholder management and leadership: build relationships, partner with customers, and drive cross-functional process improvements; work with remote teams and senior staff.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Financial analysis

Process improvement with automation

KPI analysis

Reporting & data visualization

Leadership & collaboration

Education

Chartered Accountant

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Job description

The successful candidate will ensure that accounting processes are run in a controlled environment, meeting and exceeding our customers’ expectations. The candidate will report into Global functional lead. This role requires working with Central Accounting, Finance Operations and Global Finance teams to ensure we have controlled accounting processes for month end accounting and reporting activities in a manner fitting with our \"Customer Obsession\", “Deliver Results” and “Insist on Highest Standard” philosophy.

The candidate is responsible for smooth operations of global accounting team at Bangalore, which includes closing the global books of accounts, posting of journal entries, preparing global general ledger account reconciliations, reporting and having reviews with leadership team. The person needs to ensure finance processes are operating at the optimum capacity while partnering with operations and accounting teams to achieve the annual operating plan.

The FinOps Accounting team is responsible for preparing, reviewing and reporting on general ledger account and operational reconciliations. This individual will be responsible for developing and maintaining key financial and operational metrics, analyzing and reporting monthly variance analysis and providing ad-hoc reporting and analysis. This individual will also establish and embed principals of financial controls by measuring the quality of general ledger account reconciliations, creating dashboards and metrics to measure quality of processes and controls. This position will also be responsible for hiring and training priorities; ensuring existing policies and procedures are followed.

Key job responsibilities

• Accounting and Control: Own financial reporting and may teach others e.g. own the delivery of complete month end close of Accounts Payable accounting functions, reporting decks, reconciliations etc. Provide support/direction for process or problem resolution. Ensure all processes are operating efficiently and effectively. Identify and implement process improvements where required. Understand the best practices of industry and set up benchmark for quality. Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when assigned or required. Ensure appropriate financial policies, procedures, and internal controls are in place, documented, and operating as intended. Manage department’s response to internal and external audit requirements and will also ensure compliance with SOX requirements for all geographies/activities. Manage complex accounting issues and implement process controls. Ability to analyze complex datasets and provide business judgements.
• Leadership And Management Stakeholder management and building relationships: Make and keep commitments, seek opportunities to partner with customers, be optimistic, and anticipate needs. Protect our brand: Know and live the values. Strong systems background. Actively participate in strategic initiatives and special projects when assigned or required. Ability to work with remote teams in multiple locations. Work with cross functional systems and drive process improvement initiatives

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience
• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 7+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• Qualified Chartered Accountant

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 7+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
• 3+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making

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