Delivery Operations Associate Manager - Finance & Accounting (Record to Report)

Delivery Operations Associate Manager

Skill required: Record To Report - Fixed Asset Accounting
Designation: Delivery Operations Associate Manager
Qualifications:BCom/Master of Business Administration
Years of Experience:10 to 14 years
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What would you do? • The incumbent will have strong end to end knowledge of the Record to Report (RTR) lifecycle and will be responsible for managing and reviewing accounting activities across Retail finance operations. • The role aligns to the Finance Operations vertical and is responsible for determining accurate financial outcomes through analysis of operational data, reconciliations, and period end reporting across monthly, quarterly, half yearly, and year end closes. • Review and oversight of journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, cash flow / cash forecasting statements, month end close activities, management reports, and audit support. • Ownership of period close governance, including Month end, Quarter end, and Year end close activities, ensuring adherence to close calendars, SLAs, controls, and reporting timelines. • Cash Management: Review and oversight of journals, bank upload entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and resolution of cash related reconciling items. • Intercompany Accounting: End to end ownership of intercompany transactions, including recording, reconciliation, imbalance analysis, netting, and settlement of IC balances across entities. • Fixed Asset Accounting: Oversight of capitalization requests, asset additions, transfers, disposals, depreciation runs, asset roll forwards, reconciliations, and audit support. • Review P&L and balance sheet accounts to identify errors, omissions, or inconsistencies, ensuring timely resolution and accurate financial reporting. • Drive process improvement initiatives, including automation, standardization, simplification, and strengthening of financial controls across RTR processes. • Oversight of account reconciliations across Bank, GL, Balance Sheet, and Retail Store level accounts, ensuring quality, completeness, and audit readiness. • Actively participate in client and stakeholder discussions, providing timely resolutions, insights, and inputs to senior leads and client SMEs. • People and delivery management: Lead, mentor, and manage RTR teams, ensuring productivity, quality, SLA adherence, and capability development.
What are we looking for? •Qualifications Experience & Education • 10–14 years of experience in Record to Report (RTR) within the Finance & Accounting function. • Experience in a BPO / shared services environment retail / co-operative industry is an added advantage. • Bachelor’s degree in finance / accounting or MBA (Finance). •Systems & Applications • Experience working on SAP HANA and other relevant finance systems is preferred and considered an added advantage. • Strong working knowledge of MS Excel and MS Word. • Advanced Excel skills (e.g., complex formulas, data analysis, pivot tables) will be an added advantage. Communication & Interpersonal Skills • Ability to interact effectively with customers and client SMEs for daily operational and governance activities. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective interaction with clients and internal stakeholders via calls and emails. • Ability to work closely with team leads and stakeholders to drive process and organizational initiatives. • Capable of communicating clearly and professionally with client reconciliation SMEs and third-party teams, and of raising timely, accurate, and well-articulated queries.
Roles and Responsibilities: •• Exposure to automation, RPA, analytics, or AI enabled finance solutions (e.g., automated reconciliations, anomaly detection, close analytics, Gen AI assisted reporting or commentary) will be a strong advantage. •• Strong understanding of various account reconciliations (Bank / Balance Sheet / GL / Store accounts) across daily, weekly, and monthly frequencies. • Perform variance analysis and provide clear reason codes for open or aged items. • Execute and manage month end close activities as per the agreed close calendar. • Drive resolution of open items; raise timely and accurate queries with clients and third parties where required. • Prepare and post journal entries with appropriate approvals from clients or team leads. • Ensure high accuracy and productivity for activities within scope. • Perform quality reviews of reconciliations and client / third party queries, and share outcomes with SMEs and stakeholders. • Interact with client SMEs and internal leads on daily operations, issue resolution, and process related matters. • Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills for effective stakeholder engagement.