Senior Accountant

Job Overview

At QuickBooks Money Movement Operations and Accounting team (namely Payments and Payroll), our mission is to revolutionize small business money movement through technology and data, simplifying the process.

To support our expanding portfolio and manage the daily operational accounting of our business, we seek an experienced Senior Accountant. This critical role is crucial as we strive to accelerate growth and scale our business. Tremendous innovation lies ahead for us to achieve this scale, which includes developing institutional-quality servicing systems, data, reporting, and operational processes. 

The successful candidate will primarily assist in the daily reconciliation and money movement operations of the Money Movement Operations and Accounting accounting team, but also lend support to monthly closes. An accounting background is essential, along with experience and interest in various accounting, money movement functional processes, and financial systems.

The ideal candidate will possess sound business sense, be an independent thinker, and thrive on driving outcomes. They will also be a team player and partner, able to communicate clearly, work effectively with diverse groups, and skillfully apply quantitative/qualitative analytical methodologies and tools. The position is based in Bangalore, India.

Responsibilities

• Gather, prepare, validate, and maintain journal entries for a broad range of accounting areas consistent with GAAP and corporate accounting policies to ensure close timelines are met.
• Prepare daily bank reconciliations of our Money Movement businesses across geographies. This includes raising tickets for reconciliation variance and then partnering with business stakeholder groups to triage, resolve, and correct the primary cause of the reconciliation discrepancy.  
• Support compliance and improve processes and internal controls.
• The working hours follow Indian shift timing. Moreover, the candidate should be available to support teams in the PST zone as needed.
• Effectively assess risk over accounts and areas of responsibility. Apply judgment to ensure the financial integrity of accounting entries, accruals, and account reconciliations are intact and operating effectively.
• Change Management and Communication – drive overall change management to Finance stakeholders throughout the daily bank reconciliation lifecycle development process with a goal of ‘no surprises’ for stakeholders; the ideal person for this role has excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and can understand risk and business impacts to make appropriate prioritization and trade off recommendations.

Qualifications

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• 5-7+ years of accounting experience with accruals, journal entries, and account reconciliations
• Chartered Accountant or US CPA 
• Experience in fintech, banking, lending are a plus, but not hard requirement 

Skills particularly important to success are:

• Strong technical (GAAP) and financial accounting skills and ability to document accounting conclusions
• Strong “systems / process orientation” with demonstrated analytical thinking, organizational skills and problem solving skills who can also identify and implement effective processes improvements
• Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation and influencing skills, including the ability to raise issues appropriately to the right level internally and externally to resolve
• Ability to interpret and present technical accounting details in lay terms to non-accounting business partners
• Ability to perform metrics analysis
• Must be comfortable working in cross-functional teams and willing to voice an opinion
• Must be able to understand both business needs and the technologies to implement them
• Basic data analysis skills; ability to analyze data and identify data issues; SQL knowledge extremely beneficial
• Public accounting or large public company experience strongly preferred