Financial Accountant

Job Title : Financial Accountant

Location : Trivandrum, Kerala

Key responsibilities

• Take ownership of the preparation, review and delivery of monthly financial reporting for designated international offices and entities, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and appropriately supported.
• Prepare and critically review profit and loss accounts, identifying and explaining significant movements, emerging trends, risks and opportunities.
• Review balance sheets and supporting reconciliations, investigating aged, unusual or unsupported balances and working with relevant colleagues to resolve issues promptly.
• Lead the financial coordination of assigned international statutory audits, working closely with regional finance leads, local finance teams, external auditors and other internal stakeholders.
• Manage audit information requests and deliverables, ensuring that schedules and supporting evidence are accurate, complete and provided within agreed deadlines.
• Act as a key point of contact for assigned offices and entities, responding to accounting and reporting matters with a practical, collaborative and commercially aware approach.
• Apply sound professional judgement when reviewing accounting treatments, reconciliations and financial information, escalating significant or complex matters where appropriate.

Required experience and skills

• Qualified accountant, or equivalent, with a recognised professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CA India or another relevant international qualification.
• Strong post-qualification or equivalent practical experience in financial accounting, management reporting, statutory reporting or audit.
• Demonstrable experience of taking ownership of accounting activities and delivering high-quality outputs with limited day-to-day supervision.
• Experience coordinating or playing a significant role in statutory audits, including managing audit requests and working with external auditors and internal stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of profit and loss reporting, balance sheet management, general ledger accounting, reconciliations, journals, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and intercompany accounting.

Desirable experience

• Experience gained within a complex, multi-entity or international organisation.
• Previous experience in professional services, legal services or another partnership environment.
• Knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP or other relevant international and local accounting frameworks.
• Experience using Elite 3E or a comparable finance or ERP system.
• Experience of working with colleagues and stakeholders across multiple locations and time zones.