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Director-Controller

American Express

BengaluruHigh payGCCGreat Place to Work
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Responsible for contacting clients with overdue accounts to secure the settlement of the account. Also they do preventive work to avoid future overdues with accounts that have a high exposure.


 

Responsibilities

    • Responsible for Review, Analysis and Reporting of AXP and Segment Balance Sheet. Ideate and implement data-driven business insights

    • Sustain enterprise-wide Balance Sheet health while remaining focused on efficiency and sustaining financial integrity for the company including ensuring timely research & clearance of BS reconciling items

    • GenAI enthusiast with hands on experience in utilizing it for problem solving

    • Collaborate with key stakeholders - Account Owners, Regulators and Entity/Segment Controllers

    • Pursue continuous improvement in execution, lead intelligent automation and monitor compliance with management policies.

    • Responsible for improving control environment by ensuring satisfactory audit experience and enhancing internal controls

    • Responsible for and ensuring compliance with service level agreements (SLA), internal guidelines, accounting policies and regulatory requirements

    • Support / participate in standardization and continuous improvement initiatives as well as other business partner initiatives.

    • Ensure controls & compliance with prevailing policies & procedures such as SOX, Process Risk Self-Assessment and support Statutory/Internal audits

    • Continuously challenge the Status Quo and seek opportunity for redesign/automate and support platform modernizations

    • Lead team of accounting professionals, coaching them on tactical and strategic execution, as well as professional leadership and development.

Qualifications

    • CA / CPA with 10+ years of validated experience or Postgraduate in Commerce with 8-10 years of experience or Graduate with 10-15 years of experience

    • Excellent project management and communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication style depending on the audience.

    • Strong collaborator who can work across the Enterprise to drive results while understanding and incorporating multiple viewpoints.

    • A proven leader who can energize and inspire a diverse team of professionals

    • Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and hold firmly to a position, when appropriate, in a professional and respectful manner.

    • Ability to handle high pressure environment with ambitious deadlines while balancing long and short-term impacts and multiple priorities and customers.

    • Demonstrated effective strategic thought leadership skills and creativity, as well as strong analytical skills.

    • Understanding of financial statement & balance sheet reporting & analysis

    • Understanding of end to end AR/AP process flow, accounting & reconciliation

    • Ability to connect accounting & reporting

    • Knowledge of accounting guidelines

    • Knowledge of US GAAP/Local GAAP/IFRS (Reporting knowledge)

    • Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis