Senior Accountant

• Noida
• Hybrid

Job description:

We are looking for a Senior Accountant who is responsible for securing the integrity of financial reporting and local statutory compliance in India and Singapore with a global remit covering intercompany accounting and support to the groups transfer pricing and ongoing tax matters around the world. The role combines hands-on financial management with oversight of outsourced accounting tax and payroll partners working closely with the global Finance team in particular colleagues in India Hong Kong Sweden and Canada.

Objective of the role:

Tax audit and corporate governance

• Compliance with local tax laws and statutory filings: India (GST corporate income tax TDS and withholding tax on cross-border payments including Section 195 Forms 15CA/15CB and DTAA relief tax audit and Form 3CEB) and Singapore (GST Form 5 corporate tax and IRAS/ACRA filings).
• Internal coordination point for income tax and transfer pricing assessments across the groups entities currently India Singapore Sweden and Hong Kong.
• Lead the local annual audits and act as key contact for auditors the India statutory audit and tax audit and the Singapore statutory audit and XBRL filing.

Primary corporate governance contact for both locations: ROC/MCA and ACRA filings board and director documentation corporate secretarial matters and FEMA/RBI and export-related compliance for the Indian entity.

Global intercompany accounting and transfer pricing

• Own the global intercompany cycle: monthly intercompany working files and internal billing file with intercompany sales and purchase invoices and reconciling and settling balances with the entity owners.
• Monthly currency revaluation across all group entities.
• Support the groups transfer pricing cycle collating data for the group transfer pricing report master file and local files coordinating with external advisors on India-specific requirements and making sure the agreed intercompany pricing is applied.

Outsourced partners and ways of working

• Manage monitor and review the deliverables of third-party accounting and payroll firms and act as the escalation point when their output needs correction or follow-up.
• Support transitions between service providers and the rollout of global finance systems such as the global payroll platform implementation for India and Singapore.

Payroll Accounting payments cash and banking

• Together with the local People & Culture representative act as the coordination point for outsourced payroll authorising the payroll bank file and posting the payroll journals.
• Act as the escalation point when vendor output needs correction or follow-up.
• Weekly and monthly cash-flow forecasting and liquidity management local banking relationships and early flagging of funding requirements.
• Support the team with Month-end quarter-end and year-end close for India and Singapore.

About the team:

Global Finance team of 13 spread across North America Europe and APAC.

Work Model: Hybrid 2-3 days a week in office. Given that the team is geographically spread across different locations meetings might occur outside of normal business hours.

Travel: Minimal

Reports To: Finance Director Accedo Group (Toronto)