Sr Project Accountant at Jeppesen ForeFlight in Bengaluru, Karnataka

Job description

• Description

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Review
• Supervise the Project Accountant, including day-to-day workload management, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Review the Project Accountant's monthly billing, revenue recognition, journal entries, and reconciliations for accuracy and completeness prior to closing.
• Hold the team accountable to documentation standards such that an external auditor or reviewer with no prior context could evaluate the reasonableness of the support.
• Identify training needs and hold cross functional teams accountable for providing appropriate, timely
• Cross-Regional Liaison
• Serve as the primary internal liaison between the India-based project accounting team, Project Managers in Sweden, and accounting teams in Sweden and the US.
• Coordinate month-end close activities and deadlines across time zones to ensure a smooth, well-communicated close process.
• Resolve questions on project revenue, costs, and account support, escalating appropriately when needed.
• Project Accounting & Month-End Oversight
• Oversee monthly billing and revenue recognition in the project accounting module, and perform final validation of project revenue and costs as part of month-end close.
• Review account reconciliations for project-related balance sheet accounts, ensuring balances and reconciling items are clearly documented, supported, and reperformable.
• Critically question balances that are not supported or are significantly aged, and drive resolutions to closure.
• Ensure significant project-related variances are clearly explained in a way that provides valuable insight and supports the accuracy of financial reporting.
• Process Improvement & Business Support
• Lead and support ad-hoc process improvement projects across project accounting, partnering with FP&A, IT, and Project Managers.
• Act as a subject matter expert on the Oracle Projects module, identifying missing capabilities or data fields to improve management reporting and financial reporting accuracy.
• Design, document, and maintain effective internal controls and processes to ensure system integrity and compliance with Company guidelines as the organization scales.
• Provide insight and data to drive decision-making as the Company scales operations, implements new systems, and streamlines processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or similar field.
• 6+ years of project/cost accounting experience, including prior experience reviewing or supervising the work of others, preferably in a SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• Working knowledge of Oracle ERP (or other comparable system), subledger accounting, and workflows of Projects, Costs, Accounts Receivable, etc. transactions.
• Track record of building or significantly improving accounting processes in a high-growth, fast-paced environment where infrastructure did not previously exist.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience working with Project Managers and other cross-functional teams across geographies.
• Comfortable working across time zones with colleagues in Sweden and the US, with flexibility to accommodate overlapping working hours as needed.
• Fluent in English.
• Experience with US and Swedish GAAP, and knowledge of related accounting principles/theories and concepts (e.g. SOX).
• Experience with the Oracle Projects module.
• Prior formal people-management or review/supervisory experience within an accounting team.
• Experience in global financial operations and/or international financial reporting.
• Experience partnering with teams in Sweden and/or the US.

Skills

Required

• Project/cost accounting
• Oracle ERP (or comparable system)
• Subledger accounting
• US GAAP
• Swedish GAAP
• SOX
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Fluent in English
• Team leadership and supervision
• Process improvement
• Cross-functional collaboration

Preferred

• Oracle Projects module
• People management
• Global financial operations
• International financial reporting

Benefits

• At Jeppesen ForeFlight, we know you want a rewarding career. To do that, you need challenging projects, a good work environment, and awesome coworkers. We believe in our employees and empower them to make a direct impact on our products and services messaging. We strive to provide employees and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits package includes but is not limited to the following:
• Group Medical insurance
• Group term life, personal accident, and critical illness insurance
• Gym reimbursement
• 20 days of paid vacation time
• 12 days of paid sick time
• Employee Assistance Program