Senior Consultant – Finance & Accounting
Enterprise Operations
The Enterprise Operations Portfolio is a collection of Offerings that helps clients achieve the maximum possible impact and value from their investments in Finance, Supply Chain and IT operations. By taking a holistic view of these key business functions from strategy articulation through process design and technology enablement, we can help our clients navigate their challenges while operating components of their business.
As our clients drive towards their digital future, Finance, Supply Chain, and IT play an increasingly important role in how these organizations interact with their customers, suppliers, and other key stakeholders. By combining our strategy, operations improvement, implementation, and operate capabilities, we can be more creative in how we deploy our resources and drive innovation at market pace.
Role Description:
The Senior Consultant will have a pivotal role in guaranteeing precise financial reporting and analysis activities. This role involves close collaboration with various departments to collect crucial financial data.
Role objective:
This role is part of the Deloitte’s Controllership, this practice provides operate-related support to the clients across industries. By continuously broadening our capabilities we are uniquely positioned to use our specialized skills to leverage activities to the appropriate level and implement best practices.
Work you will do:
You will focus on following areas:
• Demonstrate in-depth understanding and knowledge of accounting principles, rules, policies, procedures or technology to ensure appropriate accounting and reporting.
• Review the financial close process, including the evaluation and interpretation of financial statements and reports.
• Drive operational efficiencies in the financial close and reporting process through providing efficient, sustainable, and technology-enabled solutions aligned with accounting and financial reporting requirements. • Identifying and implementing opportunities for automation and process improvement within the various accounting processes. • Must possess a solid understanding of the controls used in various end-to-end record to report processes.
• Possessing the ability to independently conduct research on complex accounting issues, along with the aptitude to guide and propose potential solutions or corrective actions to the team.
• Maintaining constant communication with client to build strong relationships, which are crucial for the smooth delivery of services.
• Review the end-to-end record to report process including period end accounting and areas like fixed asset, retail audit, retail inventory, intercompany, cost allocations,
cost accounting and reporting as per US-GAAP.
• Able to support in the entire transition process, documenting each step as a run book using tools like Visio and SAP Signavio. In addition, should have the proficiency to lead the transition of financial operations from an external vendor.
Educational Qualifications and requirements:
• Masters in accounting /Chartered Accountant (CPA equivalent).
• 8 - 14 years of post-qualification experience with minimum 1-2 years of experience in PMO role.
• Excellent Working knowledge in MS office tools
• Knowledge of US-GAAP and financial closing process.
• Should be proactive and possess good oral and written communication skills.
• Have attention to detail along with good analytical skills.
• Ability to ensure a high level of overall quality and accuracy.
• Ability to work well & multi-task in a fast paced, time sensitive environment.
• Good knowledge on various packages such as Oracle, SAP, Blackline, Acadia 6.5, Infor, Coupa, Cognos etc.
Location and Work Timings:
• Position is based in Hyderabad and requires in-office attendance five days a week.
• Able to work from 2pm to 11pm, with flexibility to extend hours as per business requirements and adapt to US working hours during month/year end closing periods.
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