Manager, Accounting

XPO India Shared Services

What you’ll need to succeed as an Accounting Manager at XPO

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• CPA license
• 10 years of combination public accounting/industry experience
• 2-3+ years of direct people management and mentorship experience
• Proficinecy with Microsoft Office tools, including advanced Excel skills with the ability to create pivot tables, use VLOOKUP as well as other analytical functions

Highly Preferred qualifications:

• Initially experience working in Big4, followed by experience working for a large, national publicly traded company. Experience in freight, transporation, or logistics industries a plus.
• Must have experience in local Statuory annual audit, account recolinaction, external audit SOX compliance
• Experience in ERP Systems and related systems such as Oracle, SAP , Excel, HFM, Blackline, Coupa, MRI Horizon (Prolease Enterprise) and Oracle Close Manager

• Strong analytical and organization skills
• Strong communication skills
• Comfortable prioritizing multiple work streams across daily responsibilities and long-term projects
• Must be team oriented; enjoys working with colleagues at all levels of the organization

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Hands-on manager responsible for many aspects of accounting, reporting, and compliance, including but not limited to: facilitation of the end-to-end process of the financial close, preparing and reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, and trend/flux analysis during month end close.

• Supervise, train and develop senior and staff accountants on various accounting concepts and best practices
• Prepare/review requests from external and internal auditors, prepare/review technical accounting memos, among others

• Lead process documentation and enhancement efforts
• Actively partner with Finance, Operations and other department collegues to perform required monthly controls and analysis, and build effective processes.
• Ensure SOX compliance
• Provide support to accounting/finance management and internal customers as needs arise, including ad-hoc projects
  
  

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