Job Description

Team Lead, Financial Reporting

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works behind the scenes to support operational excellence. Our functional services teams (FSTs) provide services to 34,000 employees in over 400 locations worldwide. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger. Explore opportunities in Financial Services.

Your Opportunity:

An opportunity exists for a Team Lead to join our Financial Reporting team. As the lead member of the Pune team, you will develop and mentor Accounting Technicians and Analysts involved in the day-to-day operations of financial reporting as well as reviewing and maintaining various balance sheet account reconciliations. Located in our Pune office, it is a hybrid position and the shift time will be Monday – Friday, 1:00 pm – 10:00 pm IST.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise and mentor accounting technicians and analysts
• Ensure staff are fully trained and equipped to perform in a high volume, centralized environment
• Contribute to hiring within the Pune Financial Reporting team and determine the best allocation of work given the resources available
• Review journal entries and balance sheet account reconciliations, which may include Bank Reconciliations, Other Liabilities, and/or Intercompany.
• Prepare complex journal entries and quarterly working papers
• Assist and support in the 5-day period end close process including identifying any issues and the action required to correct them to ensure that our financial statements are properly stated.
• Provide and maintain information as required for external disclosure
• Answer queries from Internal and External auditors
• Ensure compliance with company policies, practices, procedures
• Ensure key controls for financial reporting related to Stantec’s SOX and internal control program are effective and operational
• Assist in the review and implementation of various business process improvement
• Assist with updates and changes to financial practices and procedures including corporate forms

Qualifications:

• Accounting Degree/ MBA 10 – 14 years post qualification experience working in a fast-paced accounting environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, mentor and support team members with over 4 years supervisory experience
• Experience in a multinational company environment
• A thorough working knowledge of full cycle accounting. Understanding of IFRS and specifically IFRS 16 would be an asset
• Proven interpersonal and leadership skills with a full range of staff from administrative to senior leadership
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple competing priorities and firm deadlines
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective communication skills, including written and oral English language competency
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Experience with Oracle or other large Enterprise systems and/or Blackline would be an asset