Staff Accountant – Operations
Reports to: Accounting Manager - Operations
Location: India
Position Type: Full-Time
General Function
The Staff Accountant position is a member of the Operations Accounting team reporting to the Accounting Manager – Operations. As an Accountant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial records. Your responsibilities will include daily reconciliation and settlement of third-party fee products (i.e. MoneyGram, Mastercard), creating journal entries, and performing balance sheet reconciliations.
Job Role & Responsibilities
- Ensure that transactions reported by store operations are reconciled to amounts provided by third party
- Investigate variances and resolve in a systematic manner, prioritized by risk evaluation
- Report all significant variances to the supervisor and appropriate levels in Store Operations
- Ensure that Store Operations is working within set policies and procedures and report deviations to the appropriate level
- Complete daily reconciliation of assigned third-party fee products
- Reconcile weekly settlements and communicate to Treasury department
- Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for assigned accounts ensuring balances are well supported
- Follow-up on reconciliation discrepancies and resolve within policy guidelines
- Prepare and post journal entries related to revenue, accruals, and other financial transactions. Ensure proper documentation and adherence to accounting principles.
- Ensure the integrity of accounting information through timely journal entry preparation, variance analyses, and resolution of account variances
- Maintain a positive working relationship when addressing problems and providing solutions
- Respond to questions from other internal departments as well as liaising with select external parties
- Assist with assessing and monitoring internal controls, including risk assessments and reviews of risk areas
- Identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements towards a quicker month-end close while maintaining accounting integrity
- Responsible for analytics or projects in support of executives and operations management as assigned
- Establish monitoring and enforcing company’s policy, procedures, and internal controls
- Contribute to preparing audit support
Specific Expertise Required
- Post-secondary education in Accounting
- Accounting degree preferred
Experience
- 2+ years general accounting experience
- Bank account and balance sheet account reconciliation
- Journal entry preparation
Technical / Functional Skills
- Ability to apply critical thinking, analyze information, and establish resolution plans
- Self-motivated; able to work independently to complete tasks and respond to department requests and to collaborate with others to utilize their resources and knowledge to identify quality solutions
- Strong organization; ability to prioritize tasks to meet requirements and deadlines
- Must be able to perform with a high level of accuracy under tight time constraints, execute assignments
- Ability to handle large datasets, complex GL strings, and multiple entities/currencies
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills (pivot table, vlookups, and filtering experience)
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Comfortable with change and fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with Oracle ERP system a plus
All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
