Senior Specialist, External Reporting

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Specialist, to join our, Legal Entity Financial Reporting Team. This role is in Pune.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways for Legal Entity Forecasting: 

• Lead end-to-end balance sheet preparation, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and integrity, supported by robust variance analysis, root-cause identification, and clear articulation of key drivers, risks, and anomalies.

• Prepare and review management financial statements with a strong focus on high-quality, decision-enabling commentary, highlighting trends, emerging risks, and forward-looking insights for senior stakeholders.

• Drive the preparation of quarterly Board packs, ensuring clarity, consistency, and strategic alignment, and support effective presentation of financial performance, key narratives, and business implications to leadership.

• Deliver year-end financial statements in compliance with applicable accounting standards, supported by comprehensive YoY variance analysis and audit-ready commentary explaining key movements, judgments, and disclosures.

• Proactively interpret and implement changes in accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and reporting frameworks, ensuring timely adoption and seamless integration into existing processes.

• Identify and drive opportunities for process simplification, standardization, and automation, improving efficiency, scalability, and controls while reducing manual effort and operational risk.

• Partner effectively with auditors, regulators, and internal stakeholders to support audits, regulatory submissions, and management presentations, ensuring accuracy, responsiveness, and high-quality deliverables within tight timelines.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA / ACA / CIMA / CPA) with 5+ years of post-qualification experience, ideally in financial reporting, legal entity controllership, or audit within complex, multi-entity environments. Postgraduate (MBA – Finance) / B.Com with 10-12 years of experience in financial reporting, controllership, or audit roles.

• Strong attention to detail with in-depth knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS, including key differences, practical application in financial statements, and implications for statutory and regulatory reporting.

• Demonstrated strong analytical capability, with advanced proficiency in Excel and Power BI, enabling effective data analysis, automation, and delivery of insight-driven reporting.

• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively, partnering effectively with Controllers, Finance leadership, and business stakeholders, and communicating financial information in a clear, concise, and impactful manner.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple deliverables, lead tasks/projects, and consistently deliver high-quality outputs within tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong working knowledge of financial and reporting systems such as Oracle, consolidation platforms (e.g., FCCS/Hyperion), Workiva, and iXBRL reporting frameworks.