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Accounting & Reporting - Accountant - Level 8
Ref No.: 26-00253
Location: Pune, Maharashtra
Start Date: 30/06/2026
 
Job Description
Job Posting Title - Accountant
Job Description Summary
Accountant – Rebates, Incentive

Role:
Overview:
  • Are you motivated to work in a team that provides global services?
  • Do you like to simplify, standardize, and transform existing processes?

The Accountant will provide excellent accounting services to Client Worldwide as part of the Global Business Services Center (GBSC). The candidate will be responsible for delivering timely and accurate accounting services to our Client Worldwide business unit(s) including contract review, plus being a key contributor in the financial month-end close process for net revenue and rebate and incentive payment validation, processing, and approval.

Role:
  • Review executed contracts and created customers, deals and incentives in the Client Contra Revenue System (CRS)
  • Accomplish timely, accurate close of the CRS sub ledger and Oracle general ledger including creation and review of journal entries
  • Identify and prepare manual journal entries through the analysis of close results, trends and actual to budget/forecast
  • Prepare and review general ledger account reconciliations
  • Perform detailed review of rebate and incentive payment requests including contract review and validation of driver data to various internal systems
  • Provide overall support and customer service to business partners located throughout the Client Worldwide organization
  • Recommend, develop and implement process improvements to improve accounting operational efficiency, quality of output and optimize synergies
  • Monitor performance indicators to track progress against goals
  • Perform various ad-hoc reporting, analysis or projects, as needed
  • Partner with financial systems regarding CRS requirements, data, reporting, and functionality
  • Support SOX control compliance
  • Other duties as required



Competencies
• Knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS and current accounting concepts
• Prior revenue, contra revenue, and/or contract management experience , preferred
• Advance MS Excel and financial/ERP systems, preferably direct experience with Oracle
• Strong foundation and experience in accounting
• Ability to produce accurate and reliable outputs/results
• Strong bias on controls and ensuring that processes and procedures are followed
• Results orientated with an ability to work under pressure and have a structured approach to deliverables
• Focused on achieving key outputs, with a sense of urgency and in a professional manner
• Able to adjust to improve/automate processes and systems – should be agile to adapt
• Ability to communicate effectively with account managers and fellow colleagues at various management levels
• Proactively builds relationships with business partners
• Experience performing basic issue resolution, gains exposure to the resolution of complex issues
• Prior experience in supporting business process transitions and process improvements projects
• Capable of working within a changing environment with excellent analytical, planning and organization skills
• Progressive accounting experience preferably in a large, global environment

Education/Certification
Master's degree in accounting or finance (Chartered accountant / CPA Preferred)
Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects
  • Surrounding team & key projects
  • Purpose/Size of this team
  • Reason for the request
  • Motivators for this need
  • Increase Staff Need/ Replacement?
  • Project?
  • Rebates and incentives accounting activities
  • N/a
  • Replacement for existing Contractor position
  • N/a
  • Replacement
  •  
Typical Day in the Role
  • Hours/Shift worked
  • Key tasks and rhythm
  • Interaction with outside the team
  • Interaction level with others (clients)
  • Required to travel or work remotely (expenses required?)
  • Typical IST business hours – Flexible
  • Accounting, workbook in excel
  • Yes
  • Quite frequent
  • work from office (Pune)
  •  
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
  • What makes this role interesting?
  • Competitive market comparison
  • Unique selling points
  • Value added or experience gained
  • To know more about Client business, Multinational exposure
  • N/a
  • Learning new tools (oracle, SFDC and internal Client application)
  • Get the knowledge of technical accounting (IFRS 15, US GAAP ASC 606)
Candidate Requirements
  • Top 3 must-have HARD skills
  • Depth of experience with each
  • Stack-ranked
1 Accounting and reconciliation
2 Advanced Excel (understanding and use of formulas)
3 Contract interpretation
  • Top 3 must-have SOFT skills
  • Depth of experience with each
  • Stack-ranked
1 Communication – Since most of client teams are off shore
2 Team player
3 Quick learner
  • Years of experience required
  • Key performance measurements
  • Degrees or certifications required
  • Disqualifiers
  • 2-3 years if CPA/CA and 3-8 years if MBA
  • Dedication, focus on tasks assigned, timeliness deliverable
  • CPA/CA, preferred/ Inter CA, MBA Finance
  • N/a
  • Language/Communication Level
Rate (1= Not Important / 5= Integral)
  • English required
  • Other language(s) required
  • 3/5
  • Yes
Candidate Review & Selection
  • Supplier Call date/time
   
  • Resume submittal deadline
   
  • Contact for initiate screening call(s)
   
  • Contact for Interview
   
  • Shortlisting process
  • Feedback availability
  • Hard skills assessment availability
Feedback touch-point date  
Hard skills assessment dates  
Hard skills assessment prep  
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