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Finance Analyst

Job Req ID:  43653
Posting Date:  4 Feb 2025
Function:  Finance
Unit:  Finance & Business Services
Location: 

25A DLF City Phase-III,, Gurugram, India

Salary:  competitive

Key Purpose of Role

 

The key objective of this role is to provide an end-to-end statutory accounts service for various legal entities within the group subsidiaries including monthly reporting and analysis. In this diverse role within BT Group, you will be working with a dynamic finance team and contribute to strengthening our financial control framework, advising on governance and policy uplift, and embedding change initiatives. With a global lens, you will be partnering with key stakeholders in Finance, Risk, Group Tax, Treasury, Tax across multiple geographies and functional teams. In this team, you will have the opportunity to expand your auditing skills, risk management, operational excellence and financial & regulatory reporting knowledge.

You will be responsible for preparation of reconciliation statements between the management books and statutory financial statements for group subsidiaries across the globe and report whether there is any risk involve of material misstatement at consolidation level and individual entity reporting. You need to interact to various finance team (GFSSC, cluster fiancé etc) for validation of numbers and document the findings thereon.

The role involves understating of various group entities trial balances and preparation of statutory accounts under UK GAAP/IFRS, including various reports and relevant disclosures which are integral part of financials statements.

You will be a confident communicator and feel comfortable dealing with external advisers, such as our external auditors-KPMG and tax advisers, in addition to briefing senior management on company activities. You will be expected to have a good understanding of IFRS. A willingness to maintain and enhance your technical knowledge is required.

Due to the nature of statutory reporting with filing deadlines which cannot be missed, you will be passionate about delivering on your commitments and totally focussed on delighting your customers and stakeholders. You will be highly organised and be expected to manage numerous activities and tasks at the same time.

 

 

Qualification:

  • CA (Qualified Accountant) - Ideally with an audit training background from practice (big 4 or medium sized firm), with professional experience ideally 3-5 years, preferably qualified accountant or relevant audit experience
  • Good understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP and willingness to maintain and enhance your technical knowledge is required
  • Should be proficient at analysing the data, preparing financials statements and possess strong technical skills including excel and PowerPoint
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

 

Key tasks and responsibilities of the role include:

 

  • Monthly book closure of group subsidiaries
  • Support the annual statutory audits with the external auditors and the internal review team
  • Timely communication of outstanding items/issues with internal and external stakeholders
  • Maintain cooperative and influential relationship with the business partners
  • Progress monitoring (audit+ filing cycle) and drive to make sure targets are met
  • Preparing statutory reconciliations and financial statements under FRS 101/IFRS
  • Carry out checks before the audits, e.g. reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, reviewing journal back-ups, etc.
  • Independent review of Stat to corporate reconciliation of all BT Entities
  • Review and validation of material deviation in the re-conciliation and documenting it for further review
  • Preparation of the audit deliverables based on external and internal review team ‘s audit requirements (PBM- preparation By Management)
  • Assist with technical accounting papers where required as part of the financial statement preparation
  • Preparation of briefing document for directors/ stakeholders explaining about the company, what happened during the year, year-on-year analysis, material concerns etc  
  • Assist with ad hoc projects such as entity rationalisation project (prepare step plan) or preparation of different slide packs for the Audit and Risk Committee Board

 

You will be joining an inclusive team member who value diversity of thought and are energised by the opportunity to support a diverse portfolio of work. You will have a keen interest in financial services and a desire to understand the implications of changes in both the financial and regulatory environment on the group. This role will provide you with the opportunity to obtain a broad understanding of the group’s corporate and governance structure and specific reporting requirements.

 

 

 

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