Manager - Finance & Accounting

Marsh McLennan; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Marsh Corporate in Pune seeks a Manager – Finance & Accounting COE to lead statutory accounting, tax and close processes for multiple entities. You will supervise a specialist team, ensure timely reporting, and maintain GAAP compliance across IFRS models.

The role involves collaboration with global stakeholders, data analysis, and regulatory reporting, with a hybrid work arrangement and a focus on accuracy and quality in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified CA with 6+ years post-qualification or 10+ years overall in statutory audits and taxation.
• CA Inter or Commerce graduate with 10+ years relevant experience.
• Flexibility to work in shifts.
• Expertise in interpreting GAAP and related practices.
• Experience with senior stakeholders, global teams and cultures.
• Proficient in data analysis, summarising and presenting themes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills and multi-activity coordination.
• Adaptability to a dynamic deadline-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Statutory Accounting and Reporting: reconcile GAAP adjustments, maintain ledgers, review statutory accounts, and ensure timely submissions.
• Tax: review tax provision, VAT returns, and support transfer pricing efforts.
• Closing the Books: assist monthly close, IFRS model reviews, and liaise with internal teams.
• Stakeholder management: engage with LEC and global teams for timely financial reporting.
• General: participate in operational/tactical meetings and prepare analytics/presentations.
• People: end-to-end delivery oversight of specialists and junior team members.

Skills

Analytical ability

Stakeholder management

Data presentation

Team supervision

GAAP interpretation

Communication skills

Education

CA with 6+ years post-qualification

CA Inter or Commerce graduate (10+ years exp)

Tools

Oracle

Essbase

Caseware

Workiva

Job description

Company:

Marsh Corporate

Description:

Marsh is pleased to announce an opening for the position of Manager – Finance & Accounting COE (Grade D2) for Pune location.

Manager (D2) – Finance & Accounting COE

What can you expect:

Statutory Accounting and Reporting:

• Reconcile GAAP Adjustments of individual entities by referring to bridge report.
• Monthly secondary ledger maintenance for the entities assigned.
• First level review of statutory accounts prepared by team & support timely submissions of statutory accounts.
• Ensure workiva templates are rolled forward correctly and maintained upto date
• Liaise and support audit binder compliance, supporting LEC to get the audits completed on time and with greatest quality.
• Timely filing of regulatory returns
• Review and maintenance of DPM.s (Process notes)

Tax:

• First level review of Tax provision GAAP and Country Statutory Reconcile Stat to Tax
• First level reveiw of return to Provision and Tax Payments
• Woking with team to Complete Transactional transfer pricing
• First level review of VAT returns produced from Edge tool
• Tax audits support & binder maintenance

Closing the Books:

• Help LEC in the monthly review of PL and BS schedules, IFRS 15 models such as CTF, PPO etc
• First level review of Legal Entity Analytics and commentary for the variances
• First level review of Quarterly one-source lodgements
• Interacting with AO & other internal teams for smooth close

Stakeholder management –

• Constant engagement with LEC & the team on updating and montioring status of above activities
• Collaborate with Accounting operations and other internal functional teams for accurate & timely financial reporting as need be.
• Actively participate in regular meetings on operational and tactical discussions as required
• Ad hoc regulatory reporting, analytics and presentation preparation across all controller activities

We will count on you to:

• Take end to end responsibility of delivery and review of the work done by Specialist / junior team members.
• Take on additional activities within the existing bandwidth.

What you need to have:

• Qualified CA (or equivalent accounting qualification) with either 6+ years of post-qualification experience or 10+ years of overall experience in statutory audits and taxation (excluding articleship).
• CA Inter (semi-qualified) or Commerce graduate with 10+ years of relevant experience in statutory audits, month-end close, and taxation (excluding articleship).
• Flexibility to work in shifts
• Expertise in interpreting accounting principles GAAP, and practices
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, global teams and cultures.
• Proficient in data analysis, summarising and presenting themes and results in a meaningful format.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organisational skills, including the ability to coordinate, prioritize and manage multiple activities.
• Have the flexibility required to work in a dynamic environment under stringent deadlines.

What makes you stand out?

• Diploma in IFRS or US GAAP certification
• System knowledge about Oracle, Essbase, Caseware & Workiva
• Prior experience in a similar reporting profile will be an advantage
• Excellent analytic skills, dash board preparation & review, expertise in MS Office and Power BI

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.