Senior Accountant, Tax

Accedo; Dadri; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Accedo is seeking a seasoned tax and accounting professional to manage local compliance in India and support cross-border governance across our global entities.

You will own intercompany accounting, lead annual audits, coordinate with external advisors, and drive process improvements using automation and AI tools.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of tax and accounting experience, preferably in Big 4 or a large firm.
• Direct exposure to Indian direct tax, transfer pricing and cross-border compliance.
• Experience supporting income tax and transfer pricing assessments in India.
• Familiarity with local and international tax filings and ERP systems (MS Dynamics 365 BC preferred).

Responsibilities

• Lead India and Singapore audits and coordinate with auditors.
• Own the global intercompany cycle and monthly reconciliations.
• Manage outsourced payroll and accounting partners.
• Advance automation and AI-driven reporting to reduce manual work.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close across entities.

Skills

Intercompany accounting

Reconciliation

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Business Administration or Finance

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Job description

Role & responsibilities

We are looking for people with international exposure on taxation. Direct taxation and International taxation experience is a must.

Tax, audit and corporate governance

• Compliance with local tax laws and statutory filings: India (GST, corporate income tax, TDS and withholding tax on cross-border payments including Section 195, Forms 15CA/15CB and DTAA relief, tax audit and Form 3CEB) and Singapore (GST Form 5, corporate tax and IRAS/ACRA filings).
• Internal coordination point for income tax and transfer pricing assessments across the groups entities currently India, Singapore, Sweden and Hong Kong.
• Lead the local annual audits and act as key contact for auditors – the India statutory audit and tax audit, and the Singapore statutory audit and XBRL filing.

Primary corporate governance contact for both locations: ROC/MCA and ACRA filings, board and director documentation, corporate secretarial matters, and FEMA/RBI and export-related compliance for the Indian entity.

Global intercompany accounting and transfer pricing

• Own the global intercompany cycle: monthly intercompany working files and internal billing file with intercompany sales and purchase invoices, and reconciling and settling balances with the entity owners.
• Monthly currency revaluation across all group entities.
• Support the group’s transfer pricing cycle – collating data for the group transfer pricing report, master file and local files, coordinating with external advisors on India-specific requirements, and making sure the agreed intercompany pricing is applied.

Outsourced partners and ways of working

• Manage, monitor and review the deliverables of third-party accounting and payroll firms, and act as the escalation point when their output needs correction or follow-up.
• Support transitions between service providers and the rollout of global finance systems, such as the global payroll platform implementation for India and Singapore.
• Payroll, Accounting, payments, cash and banking
  Together with the local People & Culture representative, act as the coordination point for outsourced payroll, authorising the payroll bank file and posting the payroll journals.
• Act as the escalation point when vendor output needs correction or follow-up.
• Weekly and monthly cash-flow forecasting and liquidity management, local banking relationships, and early flagging of funding requirements.
• Support the team with Month-end, quarter-end and year-end close for India and Singapore.

In addition you have the opportunity to

• Contribute to or own a defined global financial task, process or tool, agreed together with the Finance leadership team based on your knowledge, experience and interests.
• Bring new tools and ways of working into the function, including the use of AI and automation, to cut manual effort in reporting, reconciliation and compliance work.
• Grow the technical scope you handle directly as the processes settle.

Candidate profile

• Around 5-7 years of experience in tax and accounting, the majority of it gained in an audit, tax or accounting firm handling global clients – a Big 4 or other large accounting firm is preferred.
• Direct exposure to Indian direct tax, transfer pricing and statutory compliance, gained on cross-border or multinational clients.
• Experience supporting income tax and transfer pricing assessments in India – collating information, preparing data and reconciliations for responses to the tax authorities, and working alongside external advisors – including matters involving transfer pricing and international tax compliances.
• Familiarity with transfer pricing documentation in practice (local file, master file, Form 3CEB, benchmarking studies) and withholding tax on cross-border payments (Section 195, DTAA relief, Forms 15CA/15CB).
• Good working knowledge of Indian accounting, tax and statutory reporting requirements, and either exposure to Singapore requirements (GST, CPF, IRAS/ACRA filings) or a demonstrated ability to pick up a second jurisdiction quickly.
• Experience in a global, multi-entity organisation, with strong intercompany accounting and reconciliation experience and comfort coordinating across time zones and cultures.
• Quick to pick up new technology, and has actively tried AI tools in day-to-day work – we are interested in what you have used them for and what you learned.
• A real interest in improving how work gets done: spotting the manual and repetitive steps in a process and rethinking them.
• Comfortable with hands‑on transactional work alongside compliance and reporting responsibilities, and self‑starting without close daily supervision.
• Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Academic degree in Business Administration, Finance, or equivalent.
• Experience with an international ERP; Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a distinct advantage.
• Involvement in finance automation or process improvement work – reporting automation, workflow tools, ERP process changes, or similar.