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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