Accountant - 6-8 years of work experience, experience in handling legal entity controllership activities as per US GAAP, IFRS and IGAAP

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  • Location:
    Bangalore, India
  • Area of Interest
    Finance
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    *None
  • Job Id
    1420288

What you'll do

Cisco seeks a finance professional for Accounting Acquisition Integration. This position is looked upon as a trusted business advisor and partner. In this position you will be empowered to make a difference, establish a reputation, and position yourself for continued growth.

  • Spearhead and lead statutory audit and tax filings in various geographies
  • Responsible for Month Close activities: Review and ensure smooth month end close which includes Expense Accruals, Fixed Asset Depreciation, Prepaid Expense Amortizations, Transfer Pricing, and Intercompany Settlements
  • Prepare, Review and Approve General Ledger Reconciliations: Opex Accruals, Tax Provisions, Fixed Assets, Intercompany Accounts, Goodwill, Intangible Assets etc
  • Prepare Quarterly and Monthly Balance Sheet and P&L Flux Analysis for management reporting
  • Monitoring the health & hygiene of the account balances vide timely and quality account reconciliations
  • Review the financial results in the local GL and in the Consolidation GL for the Acquired entities and confirm that it includes all the entries required to ensure completeness and accuracy
  • Compare the Trial Balance per local GL to the Trial Balance per Consolidation GL and ensure that no differences have been identified. And provide details and comments for any differences
  • Responsible to ensure that all account reconciliations for the prior month have been appropriately completed, reviewed, and signed off and clear any significant reconciling items in the current month
  • Responsible to notify the Corporate Controllers Group of any material adjustments to current period reconciliations and provide comments on significant outstanding reconciling items
  • Review the Intercompany accounts and ensure that there are no unidentified differences
  • Ensure strict compliance with Cisco’s Policies and Procedures for Accounting and Reconciliations.
  • Ensure that all reconciliations have sufficient supporting documentation to substantiate current balances
  • Identify and communicate any foreign exchange (FX) errors and issues to the controllership team and document them in the reconciliations.
  • Work on Process improvements, Desktop Procedures, trainings, and knowledge sharing sessions
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and drive process changes to improve efficiency

Who you'll work with

You will have an opportunity to work cross functionally with Business Finance as well as Corporate Development, Tax, Legal, and Treasury. This position resides in Global Accounting & Reporting (GAR).

Who you are

The ideal candidate demonstrates attention to detail with strong Excel skills, collaboration and interpersonal skills, and the ability to efficiently partner and influence colleagues; as well as experience with Statutory audits, intercompany accounting, FX.

  • Motivated, independent and accountable
  • Proven ability to prioritize
  • Audit assurance experience in handling & completion of audits of large US MNC subsidiaries in IT/Telecom industry and/or other industry experience of first hand on exposure of statutory audit and tax audit
  • Quick to adopt challenge
  • Ability to present data as meaningful information to leadership teams as well
  • Ability to optimally partner cross-functionally with finance and non-finance organizations
  • Personal integrity; drive for results; forward thinker; performance-oriented, proactive and cross functional thinker

Our minimum requirements for this role:

  • CA / ICWA / MBA with of 5-9 years’ experience
  • Hands on experience in handling legal entity controllership activities as per US GAAP, IFRS and IGAAP
  • Hands on knowledge of Oracle Financials ERP, Microsoft Navision, Salesforce, Microsoft Excel, PPT, Word and other office tools

Why cisco

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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