Accounting Associate (Close SA) Job in Pune at Deutsche Bank Group

Deutsche Bank is hiring for the role of Accounting Associate (Close SA)!

Responsibilities of the Candidates:

• General Ledger Reconciliation and Substantiation and LEC metrics
• Accounting and supporting reporting for Frankfurt (Germany) Entities via involvement in banking as well as non-banking activities.
• Understand the business event and convert the same into accounting treatment for reporting purposes for both IFRS as well German GAAP
• Generating MIS Packs and financial statements which include trend analysis and commentaries.
• Exception management including reconciliation and break resolution
• Liaise with the customer/LVC teams and ensure that information is received as per requirement with adequate approvals and standards laid down
• Independent in managing BAU tasks and also functionally managing other team members in terms of training & review processes to build a high-performing team
• Ensure completion/adherence of activity as per standard procedure/key operating procedure.
• Ensure quality/quantity of processing is maintained as per the SLA
• Drive process changes in the team to be more efficient and ensure we still operate in a controlled manner
• Escalate all issues in time, to the appropriate level, to avoid any adverse impact on the business
• To understand and manage the control environment around the upstream to downstream reporting systems. Develop the understanding of FFT Ledger data flow logic and control framework
• To ensure all the controls are being followed and all exceptions/validations are cleared to ensure accurate month-end reporting
• Participate in UAT and represent from Accounting Close team for various projects as raised by CTB from time to time and provide user inputs
• Ensure teamwork culture is practiced
• Ensure proper back-ups are created and assist other teams during contingencies (Staff shortage, high volumes, etc)
• Ensure process documentation (SOP/KOP) is always up to date per current practices.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional experience (preferably in Finance teams of banks, investment banks or professional accounting/audit firms, or in a similar capacity in a BPO / KPO center).
• Should have handled the preparation of reconciliation activities including end-to-end flow for pending/aged items and resolution
• Should know about ERP/S4 Hana Architecture (Preferably SAP)
• Should know about Reference Data maintenance (Static Data Maintenance)
• Working knowledge of IFRS is preferable.
• Candidates having basic understanding of BI tools like Alteryx, Tableau, and Power BI would be preferred