Corporate Accountant at Kent in India, IN

About the job:

The Corporate Accountant is responsible for ensuring accurate accounting, reconciliation, preparing financial statements and supporting on statutory audit as per International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We are looking for a motivated candidate who has a strong background in accounting and wants to grow his / her career within a dynamic, high growth organization. The position requires strong technical expertise in accounting and audit and is ideally suited for a finance professional with audit experience from Big4 or reputed organization.

Skills and Responsibilities:

Accounting:

• Accounting and month-end process: Ensuring accounting transactions and processes adhere to accounting policy and guidelines and maintaining precise and compliant journal entry details, reconciliations, and documentation
• Account Reconciliation and Review: To prepare and reconcile balance sheet accounts (e.g., account receivables, accruals, etc.) with accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting standards
• Financial Reporting: To own and manage the trial balance for assigned legal entities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial reporting. Support in the preparation, review and analysis of financial statements in accordance with IFRS.
• Audit Support: Coordinate and support annual statutory audits by providing requested information and addressing findings proactively and, ensuring clean audit outcomes with efficiency and timeliness.
• Responsible for accounting controls and ensure compliance with corporate law and governance requirements
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Build and nurture effective working relationships with global accounting, tax and treasury teams to achieve shared goals
• Ad-hoc Analysis and Reporting: Respond to inquiries with insightful financial analysis, and support decision-making through timely, data-driven insights.

In addition to the responsibilities listed herein, the employee may be required to perform other ad-hoc tasks as needed or directed by the supervisor or management. These tasks will be within the reasonable scope of the employee's skills, capabilities, and role within the organization. The intent of this provision is to allow for flexibility and adaptability in meeting the dynamic needs of the organization, ensuring that operational requirements can be met efficiently. All such tasks will be assigned considering the employee's current workload and with respect to their professional development.

Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:

Knowledge/ Qualification/ Training/ Certification:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Professional Qualification: Chartered Accountant, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent certification required.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in corporate finance, accounting or audit. This can be within a multinational or group environment, but prior experience audit from in Big 4 or reported CA firm is essential.
• Proficiency in ERP systems (e.g. Oracle) and advanced Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) skills

Communication:

• Excellent command of the English language in both oral and written communication and skills.
• Proficient in building and maintaining strong working relationships and internal teams, external auditors and other stakeholders

Behavior/ Core Competencies:

• Strong analytical and problem solving mindset
• Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder management abilities
• Strategic thinking and meticulous attention to detail and compliance
• Enthusiastic and results oriented, and the ability to drive continuous improvement in financial processes
• Must possess the highest degree of integrity and ethical standards
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and a strong desire to be a team player
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill. Listens effectively, transmits information accurately and understandably and actively seeks feedback
• Handles confidential and sensitive information and records with high degree of discretion, diligence and good judgement

HSSEQ:

The Employee shall observe the Health, Safety, Sustainability, Environment and Quality rules of the Company; it’s clients and the governing authorities of the host country.

• Candidate should contribute to creating a workplace where everyone feels compelled to intervene whenever they observe an unsafe act or condition to ensure that everyone goes home safe and well and the environment is preserved in the successful operation of our business.​​​​​​​
• Candidate should maintain the HSSEQ management system, and the tools required to implement it

Details about the role:

• Location: Mumbai, India
• Relocation required: No
• Travel required: Occasionally
• Job Type: Permanent
• Experience level: 2+ Years

We foster an environment where you are challenged professionally and empowered to take the lead on your career development with the support and guidance of our leaders. We’re committed to making sure that every single person uses their time with us to gain valuable experience and skills for their future, so why not pursue your career with us today!

Kent | The Energy Within

About the Company

About you:

Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process.

Our purpose and beliefs:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us:

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:

We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.