Group Reporting Specialist

Role Purpose

We are seeking a technically strong and motivated Group Reporting Specialist to join the Group Reporting team in Pune. The role will support accurate, timely and high-quality Group financial reporting, with particular focus on monthly and quarterly consolidation, IFRS reporting, management-to-IFRS reconciliations, consolidation controls and Group reporting analysis.

A key part of the role will be supporting the future implementation and ongoing operation of Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS), including reviewing consolidation results, validating entity submissions, investigating consolidation exceptions and ensuring the integrity of Group reporting outputs.

The role will work closely with Group Reporting, Finance Controllers and accounting teams across the business and will help strengthen the Group's reporting and consolidation control environment.

Main Responsibilities

Group Consolidation and Reporting

• Support the monthly, quarterly and annual Group consolidation and reporting
• Review legal entity submissions for completeness, accuracy and compliance with Group reporting
• Perform detailed review of consolidated profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow and equity
• Analyse significant period-on-period movements and obtain appropriate explanations and supporting
• Review consolidation journals, Group reporting adjustments and consolidated financial information for senior management, external reporting and audit.
• Assist with preparation of Group IFRS financial statements, disclosures and audit-ready supporting

FCCS Implementation and Review

• Act as a key finance user supporting the planned implementation of Oracle
• Participate in process design, testing, user acceptance testing, parallel runs and validation of FCCS consolidation and reporting processes.
• Review entity submissions, consolidation results, elimination entries, reporting outputs and validation reports within
• Reconcile Oracle Fusion general ledger and trial balance data to FCCS following data

• Investigate and resolve FCCS validation errors, mapping issues, intercompany differences and consolidation
• Support development and governance of reporting hierarchies, entity structures, account mappings and consolidation rules.
• After implementation, support ongoing FCCS controls, close governance, user guidance and continuous

Group Reporting Controls

• Perform and review reconciliation of management reporting versus IFRS results, including Cost of Sales and SG&A.;
• Review investment, equity and intercompany balances across the Group and investigate
• Ensure Group reporting adjustments and manual consolidation journals are appropriately documented, approved and traceable.
• Maintain a robust Group Reporting close checklist, timetable and control
• Support reconciliation and resolution of intercompany balances before consolidation and

IFRS and Technical Reporting

• Support the Group Reporting Director on complex accounting and reporting
• Assist with implementation of new or amended IFRS requirements affecting Group
• Support preparation of technical accounting papers and reporting positions where
• Review consistency of accounting across Group entities and identify reporting differences requiring Group
• Support analysis of leases, foreign currency, investments, impairment, intercompany accounting and consolidation

Reporting Process Improvement

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate Group consolidation and reporting
• Reduce dependency on manual Excel-based reporting through improved Oracle Fusion and FCCS
• Improve traceability from source trial balance to Oracle Fusion, FCCS and final Group reporting
• Develop reporting dashboards, exception reports and analytical reviews to improve close quality and

Audit and Stakeholder Support

• Work closely with Finance Controllers and accounting teams across multiple
• Support the Group audit and provide consolidation and reporting documentation requested by
• Resolve Group reporting and consolidation queries raised by Finance, management and external
• Work with Oracle and FCCS implementation teams to ensure the system configuration reflects Group accounting and reporting requirements.

Individual Profile

• Qualified Chartered Accountant, ACCA, CPA or equivalent, with strong technical accounting
• Ideally 4 to 7 years of relevant Group reporting, consolidation or post-qualification
• Strong practical knowledge of IFRS and consolidated financial
• Hands-on experience preparing or reviewing multi-entity Group

• Good understanding of intercompany eliminations, investment versus equity elimination, foreign currency translation, consolidation adjustments, reserves, acquisition accounting and Group cash flow reporting.
• Strong analytical capability and ability to investigate and clearly explain reporting
• Experience with Oracle Fusion is highly desirable. Experience with Oracle FCCS, Hyperion/HFM, OneStream, SAP BPC or another consolidation platform is advantageous.
• Experience of a consolidation-system implementation, UAT, migration or parallel run would be particularly
• Advanced Excel skills with strong reconciliation and data-analysis
• Comfortable working with Finance Controllers, auditors and senior stakeholders across multiple
• Strong attention to detail with an audit-ready and control-focused

Our working environment

We are committed to working in the location where we do our best work. As a small and growing company with great offices in great locations, most employees will aim to be in the office 3 days a week and 2 days working from home/ other locations.

Here at EXA, we believe the future includes everyone, we are open to all applications to create an environment and culture that includes one and all. We are a proud global community that wants to drive diversity of thought though our employees and culture. We want you to come as you and make yourself and EXA successful.