Associate Director – General Accounting

Position Summary & Scope:

Cond Nast India seeks an experienced Associates Director General Accounting for a full-time staff position across its 4 titles Vogue, GQ, CNT, AD and Global Shared Service Centre. This role will be responsible to ensure the highest professional standards in all aspects of general accounting and payroll in accordance with the Companys business objectives, its philosophy, accounting policies, and values.

Areas of Responsibility (Key Result Areas):

General Accounting:

1. To oversee the maintenance of the books of accounts in Workday accounting system as per the Accounting Standards and Companies Act, 2013
2. Managing the monthly record to report exercise and maintain necessary controls on the expense provisioning exercise
3. To review and scrutinize the monthly Balance Sheet submissions and address any exceptions in coordination with the finance team
4. To remain updated and to disseminate information internally on changes in relation to compliances pertaining to Accounting Standards and Companies Act, 2013
5. To maintain quality and quantity metrics on the performance of the procure to pay function
6. To be the project lead for automation projects and lean process improvements for the finance function

Statutory/Internal Audit:

1. To prepare statutory financials, cash flow statements, and related schedules on a timely basis

2. To oversee the audit timelines, maintain a quality check on the submissions for prepared by client data for the auditors and ensure timely closure of the audit

3. To maintain a risk control and process narrative document and to test the risk control matrix for finance functions and to oversee the testing of the risk control matrix for non-finance functions

4. To validate XBRL filing of financial statements as required under Companies Act 2013

5. To ensure less observation in the internal audit report

Monthly financial reporting:

1. Prepare and submit the monthly financial reports through the Oracle EPM BI tool under US GAAP. Also to ensure to comply with the Global Accounting Policy.
2. To identify variances against historical submissions and validate the reports at functional levels
3. To analyze the reports and provide insights on the business performance
4. To stay updated on the reporting guidelines, seek clarifications with HQ as may be required for local adoption and maintain a consolidated reporting policy at the local level
5. To ensure the Oracle EPM tool is updated and maintained from a reporting perspective
6. To create ad-hoc business reports to supplement management business decision making

Requirement:

1. 6-8 years of relevant experience with a qualification of a Chartered Accountant

2. Exposure to Workday and Oracle EPM BI tool is preferable

Behavioral Competency

1. Analytical attitude with an organized approach.
2. Excellent time management and multitasking skills.

Functional Competency

Accounting and Reporting management