General Ledger Manager

Summary of Primary Job Responsibilities: (may be used to create job postings)

Accounting

• Responsible for supervising the team working on North America General Ledger activities for both L-Sitel & L-Sykes.
• Approves Journal Entries in both SAP ByDesign (L-Sitel) and Oracle (L-Sykes) by auditing transactions.
• Familiarity with all elements of the Balance Sheet (Accruals, Prepaids, Cash, Intercompany, Equity, Debt, Intangibles, etc.)
• Ability to lead and guide staff on project works, Account Reconciliations, and its analysis.
• Identifies areas of process improvement and drives change in identified areas
• Supports Annual Audits by providing information and answers to auditors.
• Helps build and maintain internal controls and works with internal audit to ensure compliance.
• Protects Organizations value by keeping information confidential.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Proactively involve in developing India shared services
• Build effective relationships with the key finance stakeholders across the globe
• Identify and implement process improvement projects

Typical Qualifications: (education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities typically needed to perform this job)

Education (if beyond High School or equivalent): Bachelor of Commerce from recognized University and MBA from recognized institution / CA / CPA equivalent

Experience Target (in this job or a related function/field):

• 10+ years progressively responsible experience in in general accounting, audit, and financial reporting (US GAAP / IFRS)
• Should have exposure to the accounting and reporting in multinational company (F&A BPO / F&A Shared Services Center)
• Should have held leadership roles especially around managing, re-organizing, and building high functioning teams and interacting with Global leaders
• Should have proven record of process improvements projects in the current / previous organization
• Should have worked on known ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, BPC)
• Experience with ERP transitions a plus.
• Public accounting experiences a plus.

Skills:

Interpersonal & Leadership Skills

• Must possess superior communication skills to manage processes across the region.
• Requires initiative and ability to be decisive, self-starter
• Should be able to build solutions, drive consensus across stakeholders and help them make the right choices
• Ability to work without the requirement of direct supervision
• Ability to be hands-on and work on strategic projects
• Attention to detail, excellent planning and organizing skills, especially prioritizing multiple projects/tasks.

Problem Solving

• Must possess analytical skills. Responsible for advanced problem solving and must filter, prioritize, analyze and validate information.
• Must analyze and resolve issues in a variety of complex situations and diverse activities.
• Must break down functions and processes into key tasks and be able to design processes to be able to execute from a remote environment at higher effectiveness and efficiency levels.

Special Certifications (if appropriate--identify if required to perform the job or just preferred):

• CA / CPA / equivalent (preferred)
• Green belt certification (preferred)
• Data analysis (preferred)