Specialist

Interested in a career that matters?

Interested in a career that matters?

Join Novonesis as a Specialist, Project & Asset Accounting in Bangalore and help provide the financial insight, governance, and control that support major business and capital projects. You will be part of a collaborative finance organization that partners closely with project managers, controllers, and business stakeholders to deliver accurate financial reporting, effective cost management, and informed decision-making.

In this role, you will contribute to the successful execution of significant business initiatives by ensuring financial transparency, compliance, and strong accounting governance across project and asset lifecycles.

The Role & Your Impact

As a Specialist, Project & Asset Accounting, you will combine project accounting and controllership responsibilities with General Accounting and Fixed Asset Accounting expertise. Your work will span financial analysis, project reporting, forecasting, month-end activities, and asset accounting, ensuring reliable financial information and strong support for business decision-making.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting major business and capital projects from initiation through closure, monitoring budgets, commitments, actual costs, and forecasts while ensuring appropriate accounting treatment.
• Performing project cost, variance, and financial performance analysis, identifying financial risks, potential cost overruns, and opportunities for optimization while providing actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Preparing monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc financial reporting and supporting leadership reviews with meaningful analysis and decision-support information.
• Performing General Accounting activities, including month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, journal entries, accruals, provisions, reconciliations, and balance sheet reviews.
• Owning key Fixed Asset Accounting activities, including capitalization, asset master data management, Asset Under Construction (AUC), project settlements, depreciation, asset reconciliations, and audit support.
• Driving continuous improvement, automation, and digitalization initiatives across project accounting, reporting, and asset accounting processes.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

To succeed in this role, you bring strong accounting expertise combined with analytical capabilities and stakeholder management skills.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Commerce, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of Project Accounting and Project Controllership, including budgeting, forecasting, cost management, and variance analysis.
• Strong understanding of General Accounting principles and month-end close processes.
• Extensive Fixed Asset Accounting experience covering capitalization, Asset Under Construction (AUC), depreciation, and asset reconciliations.
• Hands-on experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA, including Project Systems (PS), Fixed Assets (AA), and General Ledger (GL) modules.
• Advanced Excel skills for financial analysis and reporting.
• Strong knowledge of accounting standards, internal controls, and financial governance practices.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• High attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities independently.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Additional Skills & Interests We Value

The following qualifications are considered advantageous but are not required:

• Experience supporting large capital investment projects or transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to project settlements, WBS structures, CAPEX accounting, and project financial governance.
• Experience working within a multinational organization or shared services environment.
• Experience partnering with global cross-functional stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Power BI or other reporting and visualization tools.
• Interest in process automation, digitalization, and continuous improvement initiatives.

What We Offer

At Novonesis, you'll have the opportunity to contribute across project finance, accounting, and financial reporting while partnering with project managers, controllers, and business stakeholders on significant business and capital projects.

You will work in a collaborative and international environment where professional development, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement are valued. This role offers broad exposure across finance processes and the opportunity to influence business outcomes through insightful analysis and robust financial governance.

Ways of Working / Working Conditions

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Hybrid working model.
• Collaboration with local and global stakeholders across multiple functions.
• No regular travel required.
• Flexibility to support key financial reporting and month-end activities as business needs require.

Relevant Information

Application deadline: 20 October 2026

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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Our History

In 2024, Chr. Hansen and Novozymes joined forces to form Novonesis.

We are 10,000 people worldwide whose expertise spans more than 30 different industries. All around the world our biosolutions already create value for thousands of customers and benefit the planet. Our biosolutions enable feeding and fueling the world more sustainably, from healthy and sustainable nutrition to biofuel. Our biosolutions also reduce the use of fossil-based resources, chemicals, energy and water. And this is just the beginning.