About the role
Internal Interfaces
- Pretium and its operating companies’ teams
- External Auditors
- Business Unit personnel and management per the relevant accounting activity or query
- Finance teams
- Internal Audit team
- Support (HR, IT, Administration, Facilities)
Job Requirements
Education
- graduate; , MBAs in Finance, ICWAs or CAs preferred
Relevant Experience
- 10+ years’ experience in financial accounting; real estate accounting, or property accounting a plus
- Hands-on General Ledger and Sub ledger accounting experience
- Knowledge of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is a plus
Technical Know-how/Tools used
- Advanced-level knowledge of accounting principles and professional accounting standards
- Expert Knowledge and ability to oversee, conduct and improve processes pertaining to recording, adjusting, and reconciling financial transactions and events
- Expert knowledge of tools, practices and considerations for general ledger; the ability to direct and manage company-wide general ledger processing
- Basic theoretical knowledge of tax accounting principles to appropriately record taxes.
- Expert knowledge of key finance concepts and ability to leverage them to guide process owners and oversee process improvements
- Advanced knowledge and ability to analyse financial statements and data to oversee process of preparing financial performance reports
- Advanced knowledge of statutory law and audit processes to examine and analyse the effectiveness of an organisation’s operations to provide assistance to Audit teams
- Advanced Knowledge and ability to create standard internal management reports & dashboards for the function
- Intermediate understanding of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound business decisions
- Advanced understanding of internal controls and ability to assist and oversee in the development of financial and accounting controls in compliance with legal and reporting requirements.
- Advanced knowledge and ability to collect, store and retrieve data to minimize duplications and oversee process of maintaining accurate data across organization
- Expert knowledge and ability to analyse data and oversee the development and simplification of the report generation process
- Advanced knowledge and application of automation tools and ability to leverage them to enhance process efficiencies, analysis and reporting
- Advanced knowledge and ability to leverage systems and applications to deliver and improve on operational processes, enable integration and provide data query/Support
- Advanced Knowledge and ability to understand and apply policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within a program
- Expertise in MS Office, Excel specifically
- Experience in property management software, such as Yardi is a plus
Behavioural Skills
- Ability to lead teams through ambiguous situations by virtue of organizational knowledge, insights, past experience and support teams to adapt their ways of working
- Ability to drive self and others in a team to be agile and build new ideas and creative approaches to address challenges
- Ability to ensure inclusiveness in ways of working with the team, acknowledging and uncovering unconscious biases, creating a trusting workplace
- Ability to drive strategy and adapt to new information and industry changes and shift team priorities when needed
- Ability to demonstrate strong knowledge of business strategies, metrics and trends impacting the achievement of business and enterprise goals in decision making
- Ability to map explicit, implicit and unstated needs of both existing & potential stakeholders leading to tailored delivery, continued relevance and higher satisfaction along with building trust and long-term relationship with stakeholders
- Ability to mentor and counsel team members, setting aside time for periodic coaching conversations and encourages conversation on purpose and career growth
- Ability to champion systems for shared learning, knowledge management and preservation, and suggests ways to incorporate learning across teams and engage in continuous learning
- Ability to set and act to reach challenging goals for self and others, with tactful prioritization and planning to attain goals and achieve exceptional performance and results
- Ability to make systematic effort to seamlessly obtain needed data or feedback for logical and data-driven solutioning and uses lateral thinking to solve problems
- Ability to encourage co-creation and leverage connections made to deliver results and respect conflicting opinions
- Ability to articulate both simple and complex ideas, practices active listening, can understand the main ideas of complex text & interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity in English
Roles & Responsibilities
Operational Excellence
- Perform the timely completion of the monthly accounting close for corporate entities of Pretium
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of general ledger accounts and financial statements prepared by Corporate Accounting team
- Review prepared financial statements such as Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Accounts, Trial Balances etc. to ensure compliance with the accounting standards