Senior Manager - GL Accounting

Newmark Cre Services; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Newmark Cre Services seeks a GL Senior Manager to lead end-to-end General Ledger accounting activities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong balance sheet governance. The role drives transition of work to the Hyderabad center, with emphasis on control, automation, and process standardization.

You will oversee journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting in line with US GAAP and IFRS, while partnering with AP/AR/Tax teams.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead global teams and drive high‑performance service delivery.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP and SOX control requirements.
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP/Oracle) and automation tools is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end GL accounting activities and month-end close.
• Review journal entries and ensure accuracy before posting in ERP.
• Sign off on balance sheet reconciliations, P&L, and cash flow statements.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Analytical ability

Problem solving

Change management

ERP knowledge

Education

Chartered Accountant

CPA

Tools

SAP

BlackLine

Oracle ERP

Job description

GL Senior Manager Job Description:

The Senior Manager should manage the end-to-end General Ledger (GL) accounting activities. This role is responsible for accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting, strong balance sheet governance, effective internal controls, and successful delivery of month-end close, reporting, audit support, and compliance requirements.

This is a critical role, central to transitioning, stabilizing, and scaling GL process activities, including the transition of work from other regions.

This role requires strong and deep technical accounting knowledge, proven people leadership, and the ability to operate effectively in a complex environment. The successful candidate will be expected to lead the transition of accounting work to the Newmark Hyderabad center, drive operational discipline, process standardization, automation, continuous improvement, and a culture of accountability, quality, and compliance. In this position, you will report to the AVP/VP India.

Expected Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee GL accounting process activities.
• Own the end-to-end GL operation activities, especially for month-end close processes, ensuring accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and compliance with applicable accounting and reporting requirements.
• Review and analyze financial results against expectations and provide meaningful insights to controllership and business stakeholders.
• Review all types of journal entries before posting into the Oracle ERP system.
• Review and sign off on monthly and quarterly Balance Sheet reconciliations, Income Statements, and Cash Flow Statements, including footnote disclosures and supplemental schedules, ensuring completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure strong balance sheet governance, review of unreconciled items periodically with team and stakeholders, along with variance analysis, and timely issue resolution.
• Expertise in US GAAP, IFRS, lease accounting policies, lease impairment assessments, internal controls, and financial compliance requirements.
• Have strong knowledge of intercompany reconciliations and resolve out-of-balance items.
• Continuously identify, design, and implement process improvements and standardizations across areas of responsibility to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. This includes special projects and serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) as needed.
• Collaborate with Finance teams such as AP, AR, Tax, and Treasury, and other delivery teams to strengthen controls and reporting compliance.
• Proficiency leveraging AI-enabled tools and advanced technologies to improve accounting processes, reporting accuracy, operational efficiency, and decision support.
• Drive standardization, process optimization, automation, and transformation initiatives that enhance scalability, governance, efficiency, and reporting integrity across the enterprise.

Governance, Controls and Audit Readiness:

• Maintain a strong internal control environment and ensure compliance with SOX requirements.
• Work with internal and external auditors to support audit planning, walkthroughs, testing, review controls, evidence, remediations, etc., and timely closure of audit matters.
• Proactively identify financial reporting, compliance, and control risks and ensure appropriate escalation and resolution.

Process Transition and ERP Migrations:

• Lead the transition, stabilization, and scaling of accounting activities being insourced from US and UK stakeholders into the Hyderabad GL Accounting team.
• Establish clear ownership, process documentation, governance routines, and escalation mechanisms.
• Partner with global and regional stakeholders to ensure business continuity, knowledge transfer, and successful transition outcomes.
• Build sustainable team capacity and capability to support the future-state controllership operating model.

Stakeholder Management:

• Have strong relationships with the US Finance team and other business stakeholders.
• Understand business requirements and make the necessary decisions.
• Ensure effective communication of accounting decisions, process impacts, deadlines, and risks across relevant stakeholder groups.

Transformation, Process Excellence:

• Drive process standardization, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement across RTR activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve close efficiency, reporting quality, control effectiveness, and team productivity.
• Establish structured governance with the transformation team to execute all ideas and initiatives.

People Leadership

• Lead, develop, and coach RTR teams, fostering accountability, service excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Set clear goals, performance expectations, priorities, and accountability standards.
• Build strong succession planning across levels and departments.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, integrity, continuous improvement, and high-quality execution.
• Assess workload, resource requirements, and capacity needs, and recommend changes as required.
• Qualifications and Experience:
• Proven ability to lead global teams, manage escalations, and drive high-performance service delivery.
• Should be a Chartered Accountant, CPA, or have equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive accounting, controllership, and financial reporting experience, with at least 5 years in a supervisory role.
• Strong experience in RTR GL, including journal entries, Balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany accounting, and period-end close, along with governance, financial reporting, audit support, and internal controls.
• Deep understanding of US GAAP and SOX control requirements, including intercompany and foreign currency accounting.
• Proven experience leading GL accounting teams, including leaders/managers.
• Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to influence senior finance and business leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and deliver against tight deadlines while maintaining composure under pressure.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, solution-presentation, and decision-making skills.
• High attention to detail, strong ownership mindset, and commitment to quality and compliance.
• Hands‑on experience with ERP systems and automation tools such as SAP and BlackLine.
• Solid understanding of audit, compliance, and internal and external audit control requirements.
• Skilled in change management, process improvement, and system implementations.

Others:

• ERP experience with Oracle and BlackLine, and AI certification, would be a plus.
• Because the client is US-based, shift timings are 3 PM to 12 AM or 4 PM to 1 AM, depending on daylight saving time.