• Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the health, tax & accounting, governance, risk & compliance, and legal & regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. The Company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,000 people worldwide. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way they do business, build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right!
The position will be part of the Accounting team based out of different locations in India and will support the management by ensuring all the accounting activities are managed accurately and in a timely manner maintaining the integrity of financial data. This position is critical to the overall control environment for the divisions supported by Wolters Kluwer Financial Shared Services (FSS). FSS focuses on building accounting expertise in a tower structure: Record to Report, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash and provides support to the businesses of Wolters Kluwer in a standardized, harmonized, and high quality manner. If successful, the candidate will be able to expand his/her expertise within a global organization. Additional requirements include, but are not limited to:
• Good communication and interpersonal skills to establish strong relationships with cross-functional teams.
• An ability to quickly adapt to changes in business requirements.
• A desire to learn new skills and expand areas of responsibility
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Actively participate in the month end close in accordance with the Corporate Reporting calendar.
• Lead the Procure to Pay and Cash and bank activity at the unit level including Concur reimbursements
• Responsible for day to day accounting transactions.
• Manage inter- company relationships.
• Manage reporting into Tagetik.
• Responsible for corporate credit card management.
• Manage Royalty calculations and service income workings
• Work closely with accounting partner to ensure deliverables are managed in timely manner.
• Handle statutory and internal audits
• Manage banking relations and cross collaborate with Units across India
• Maintain and update desk-top procedures for any changes in processes, tools and procedures.
• Keep updated checklists and ensure completion of tasks per such checklists.
• Prepare supporting schedules and analyses as required by management.
• Timely and effectively communicate with accounting, finance and operations teams by providing thorough and thoughtful responses to inquiries and questions.
• Ensure effective cross collaboration with various teams
• Any other assigned work as appropriate
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JOB QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Bachelor of Commerce; Chartered Accountant
• 3-5 years of previous accounting experience in public or private companies
• Experience with SAP/Great Plains and/or other ERPs strongly preferred.
• Experience with Blackline strongly preferred.
• Strong reporting and data querying capabilities
• Thorough knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
• Strong analytical, leadership, team management and presentation skills
• Ability to work flexible hours to well coordinate with the rest of the team during Month-End Close/Reporting
• Detail oriented approach to work; ability to maintain confidentiality; strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while also functioning as an integral part of a team.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on assignments.