Job description 

What would you do? The selected persons should be willing to perform such projects / tasks which provides them an overview of the work in the General Accounting services area for retail business. Identified individuals should understand the client business, technology, process details and procedures. Typically, a resource would assist client in performing and reviewing various account reconciliations, act as a subject matter expert for the retail accounting process and display sound understanding of accounting concepts, reconciliations, MEC process, JE posting, etc. Also, an individual should be capable to perform/monitor inventory audits, matching cash receipts / store transfers, reviewing manual adjustments, reviewing missing retails and transmission, reviewing markdown, sales and spoilages. Proactively recognize and solve poorly defined problems, maintain an awareness of the client's business, leading communication with client for his/her delivery scope. Resource will also be responsible for managing delivery teams.
What are we looking for? • Commerce Graduate/Chartered Accountant/ICWA/CS with 6 - 7 years of experience in retail accounting • Candidate must possess strong written and verbal communication skills, be well organized, detail oriented, and have the ability to perform in a fast-paced changing environment • Experience working with accounting applications preferred; PDI, AS400, JDE, SAP, ReconNet, Blackline. • Experience in Retail Accounting area • Proven experience of leading operations team • Should have knowledge of RTR processes - Reconciliations, Tax and Book Close • Proven experience in managing clients • Excellent communication skills • Experience running multi-geography operations/teams 
Roles and Responsibilities: In this role, you are required to fulfil below responsibilities: - • Perform Bank, Cash and ATM account reconciliations. Analyze transactions, understand and explain variances, and proactively identify potential problems and solutions • Monitor and address inquiries, from relevant stakeholders (including Store Managers and BU teams) • Balance and verify accounts by reconciling statements and transactions • Support month end activities including reconciliations and manual journal postings • Monitor stock correctness and completeness. Analyse and validate stock accounts • Communicate problems to stores managers or BU teams, as necessary • Ensures compliance with requirements, policies, and regulations by enforcing adherence to standard operating procedures • Creation and analysis of monthly reports related to cash and inventory accounting. • Research negative inventories, duplicate invoices, manual adjustment entries, cash paid outs • Ensure month end/quarter end entries & submit accurate account recon on time • Adhere to Company and department policies and procedures • Promptly and effectively communicating with both internal and external stakeholders • Assisting RTR Manager in any other RTR related tasks and projects • Ability to comprehend basic statistics and terms involved in the day-to-day business and using the same during process discussions. • Identification of process improvement / lean ideas to avoid measurable, repeatable, predictable and transaction processing efforts • Constantly be on the lookout for ways to enhance value for your respective stakeholders/clients • Ensure that the SLAs and Operations metrics are met • Guide, support, and work with other team leaders & team members • Prepare management reports for clients and internal management • Share feedbacks and execute performance management actions • Execution of backup planning for all service delivery actions • Facilitate quality checks for the work performed by the team members • Participation in performance review/governance discussions with client • Managing small / mid size teams (5-15 FTE)