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Financial Analyst

American Express
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IndiaHybridFinance
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Finance is a collaborative team, playing a key role in advising all areas of the business. We have a strategic seat at the table, and our unique insights are valued in a highly competitive marketplace and increasingly complex global regulatory environment. This team collaborates globally to deliver expert accounting, reporting & advisory services, and financial risk control & governance, while supporting business growth & protecting shareholder value Responsible for management & governance of monthly accounting for legal entities.

  • Responsible for management & governance of monthly accounting for legal entities

  • Managing end-to-end responsibility of one of the non-banking legal entities

  • Monthly review of financials to provide critical inputs to entity controller on various cost analytics and services fee charge-out

  • Analysis of Legal Entity Results, identification of anomalies during close

  • Identify opportunities to standardize, improve and automate existing processes within/across teams.

  • Plan/coordinate with various stakeholders to execute process improvement opportunities.

  • Partners with various groups to identify and leverage best practices.

  • Manage & govern various regulatory filings and compliances.

  • Compliance with prevailing policies & procedures etc.

  • Monthly/Quarterly update to Legal Governance Committee / Board members and ensuring all regulatory compliances.

  • Ensure that all deadlines are continually met, and adequate controls are maintained over the processes to ensure integrity of the information.

  • Maintain close contact with customer / business partners and other interface groups to ensure a smooth service delivery

  • Provide end to end support for the legal entity statutory / internal / other audits including discussion with auditors and drive closure of Internal and External Audit of Local as well as US GAAP ledgers

  • Coordinate with GFO/GBS functions to provide external audit support, including Reconciliations, Accounting and Payment Operations, plus World Services Cashiers as appropriate

Responsibilities: Critical Factors to Success:

Business Outcomes:

  • Own & maintain financial/data integrity

  • Stay relevant to the business/functional requirements

  • Understand & leverage intelligent automation technologies to generate use cases within the team & create opportunities to support the automation team to get that implemented

Leadership Outcomes:

  • Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.

  • Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings.

  • Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity.

  • Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day.

Past Experience:

  • CA/CPA with 1+years of experience or MBA with 3 + years of experience or M Com with 7 + years of experience.

Functional Skills/Capabilities:

  • Strong understanding of end-to-end accounting, basic understanding of reporting
  • Understanding of financial consolidation process
  • Ability to research and embed relevant best practices

Technical Skills/Capabilities:

  • Knowledge of financial systems – Oracle, OBI etc, Advanced MS office suits such as Excel, Word, Power-point
  • Strong IGAAP/IND AS knowledge and awareness of US GAAP (Accounting knowledge)
  • Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis
  • Working knowledge of automation tools like Tableau, Python, Natural Language Generation [NLG], Machine Learning Studio [MLS] etc. would be an added advantage

Behavioral Skills/Capabilities: Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

  • Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
  • Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
  • Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

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