# Accountant

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Pune, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are looking for a detail-oriented and results-driven Accountant to lead and manage the accounting operations within our Global Business Solutions (GBS) organization.

This role will play a critical part in ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of accounting activities, supporting both corporate and statutory reporting requirements.

Responsibilities:

- Prepare and review General Ledger reconciliations and journal entries as part of month-end close activities.

- Review Cash and sub-ledger transactions, perform foreign exchange (FX) analysis, and variance analysis to support accurate financial adjustments.

- Understand the financial impacts and intricate accounting treatments, ensuring strict compliance with regulations, laws, and reporting standards.

- Support reporting activities, preparing various reports, scorecards, and dashboards.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and handle process improvements, escalations, and BAU tasks.

- Support internal and external audits, including SOX compliance, and contribute to strengthening control frameworks.

- Identify process gaps, assess and mitigate risks, and implement improvements to enhance operational efficiency.

- Independently determine the complexity of issues, escalate, and make recommendations to leadership.

- Support the business partner relationship and apply a client-service mentality by addressing ad-hoc requests and queries effectively.

- Manage special projects and initiatives, including entity transitions, process improvements, and new acquisitions.

- Drive usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automations for process efficiencies and effectiveness.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; MBA, CA, CA Inter, or equivalent certification preferred.

- 4+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 1 year in a Cash accounting role.

- Strong understanding of subledger and controlling accounts for Cash, AP, AR, Intercompany, etc.

- Strong technical expertise in accounting operations, including GL management, reconciliations, and close processes.

- Fair knowledge of GAAP, IFRS, and statutory reporting requirements.

- Proficiency in Oracle systems.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, and learning agility.

- Strong commitment to customer service excellence, featuring a customer-centric mindset.

- Good understanding of MS Excel (knowledge of PowerBI/Power Automate is beneficial).

- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Finance
- Oracle
- MS Excel
- GAAP
- IFRS
- Artificial Intelligence

### Nice to have
- MBA
- CA
- CA Inter
- PowerBI
- Power Automate

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