Grade IResponsible for supporting the team with accounting and reporting services, helping to ensure the integrity and effectiveness of accounting policy application, internal control, financial reporting, accounting systems support and delivery of financial accounting processes in conformance with BP's systems and requirements.Entity:
Finance

Job Family Group:
Finance Group

Job Description:

Key Results / Accountabilities

• Ensure accurate and timely delivery of end to end process in general accounting and reporting, (i.e. journal postings, GL maintenance, system postings, report preparation, reconciliations, tax submissions, etc.) in accordance with SLAs.
• To support timely and accurate monthly group reporting • To run audit process to eliminate issues, and ensure smooth audit if any. • To support in compliance of books of accounts with Group Accounting Policies and Indian Accounting Standards, wherever applicable
• Run monthly/quarterly close related activities for CIL and BPISPL and ensure that the timelines as specified are adhered to. Perform analytical reviews to ensure accuracy and completeness of the numbers.
• To support in ensuring internal controls for all reporting activities
• Run and coordinate the reconciliation of the respective systems to ensure they balance and that any discrepancies or variations are investigated and corrected.
• Provide relevant advice and information to staff across GBS and its customers as and when required.
• Regularly track and resolve outstanding general accounting and reporting issues that have been raised, or further intensify to the vital parties.
• Proactively identify, propose and implement continuous improvement opportunities in existing processes within the team.

Accountabilities

• Constantly scans for improvement opportunities and implements transformative solutions that solve our most complicated and sophisticated problems.
• Moves at a high pace while collaborating, managing risks, communicating, thinking globally and while demonstrating BP's values, behaviours and mindsets.
• Continuously promotes Agile methodology through both adopting agile principles and actively championing agile at every opportunity.
• Thinks Digital Delivery first through apply deep digital expertise to problems, through understanding and promoting automation and through analysing data to create breakthrough solutions.

Key Challenges

• Ensure 100% accuracy and timeliness of group and statutory reports in accordance to agreed service levels.
• Develop a good understanding of the customer organisation as well as the business in order to be able to deliver high quality service.
• Managing the day to day work activities of the team and ensuring the necessary skills and experience are available to meet the challenges of a demanding and complex workload.

Collaborating closely with customers and colleagues in different geographical locations, time zones and potentially in different languages using different systems requiring thorough coordination between teams.

Any Other Relevant Information (Particular reference to planning (nature and impact), scope of impact (Team, BU, Segment, BP globally etc)

This covers Key Decisions and to what extent? Types of relationship internally and externally that the person required maintaining contact with.

• This position's primary interfaces are:
  • Internal
    • GBS teams
    • GBS business partners
  • External
    • Auditors

Qualification & Experience and Competencies

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.
• Recognised professional accounting qualification (e.g. CA, ICWA).
• Minimum of 3 - 4 years ofproven experience in general and/or financial accounting.

Required Criteria

• English language proficiency.

Preferred Criteria

• Shared service centre experience.
• JDE/SAP system experience.

Travel Requirement
Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:
This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:
Accounting for financial instruments, Accounting for financial instruments, Accounting policy, Accounting processes and financial systems, Agility core practices, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Analytics, Business process control, Business process improvement, Collaboration, Commercial acumen (Inactive), Commercial assurance for external reporting, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Credit Management, Curiosity, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Automation, Digital fluency, Financial accounting and reporting, Influencing {+ 5 more}

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