Lead Accountant

Clarivate is a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. Our vision is to improve the way the world creates, protects and advances innovation.

It is an opportunity to work closely with the controllership function, and learn about various business processes and their insights, primary responsibilities are to help controllers during monthly books closure and year-end statutory audit activities. Apart from this should also be working on special projects to fix various accounting, compliance, and regulatory matters. There are ample opportunities to learn and develop personally and professionally.

We work in a very collaborative environment, with flexibility on individual choice for place of work and time, our focus is more to get the deliverable as per prescribed timelines.

 About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments 

• 6 to 8 years and 4 years of relevant experience is expected.
• Chartered Accountant or equivalent
• Good with verbal and written communication
• Should have experience working with MNC
• Understand business processes, compliances, and controls properly.
• Has enough maturity and insights to deal the complexity and requirements.
• Extensive UX of Excel, Word and PowerPoint, good in written and verbal communication, UX ERP systems SAP, Net Suite(preferred), Blackline, One stream (highly preferred)

It would be great if you also had .

• Entity controller experience
• Must have handle periodic books closure and statutory audits.
• Accounting Knowledge under IGAAP/IFRS (Preferred), India and Asia Region Taxation (Preferred) , Record to Report Exposure.
• Big4s Statutory Audit Management Exposure
• Financial Statements Preparation and Consolidation, Financials Review and Analysis

What will you be doing in this role?

• Supervision of balance sheet and financial reporting 
• Controller of the countries under scope raise early alerts on accounting and business concern.
• Ensure the month-end closure is in line with Clarivate’s global reporting timetable, review to ensure that critical accounts are reconciled to underlying documentation, that transactions are coded accurately in line with Clarivate’s and local / country accounting policies, Accountable for the financial information and the results that are reported to the organization,
• Supervision of the reconciliations carried out by other members of the regional team,
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards and policies in the balance sheets of the companies under its responsibility,
• Identify risks and calculate reserves, accruals and provisions, Balance sheet analysis and flux explanations,
• Work with 3rd Party providers for statutory and tax reporting, year-end submissions and other accounting areas,
• Support local transactional teams across the Asian region in relation to local statutory and tax compliance.

About the Team

The team consist of 10 people including controllers and a finance director who caters primarily for the Asia region followed by euro Asia and certain European regions as well.

Hours of Work

12 pm -9pm shift (but flexible) IST.

Work Mode-Hybrid

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