RTR - Lead/ Assistant Manager – Chennai

Location: Chennai • Experience: Senior Level • Openings: 3

Job description

Job Title: – RTR - Lead/ Assistant Manager

Location: Chennai

Role Overview: The RTR Team Lead is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end Record-to-Report process, ensuring accurate and timely financial close, compliance with accounting standards, and delivery of high-quality financial reporting. This role provides leadership to the RTR team, drives process improvements and automation, manages stakeholder relationships across finance functions, and supports audits and regulatory requirements while maintaining strong internal controls.

Key Responsibilities

5 – 10 years of experience in general accounting

Flexible for any shifts

Financial Close: Plan and run monthly, quarterly, and annual close calendars; enforce cut-offs; review/approve journals and reconciliations; monitor close KPIs.

GL Integrity: Oversee general ledger maintenance, chart of accounts governance, and balance sheet hygiene; ensure appropriate use of accruals, prepayments, and provisions.

Reconciliations: Ensure timely, high-quality reconciliations for bank, intercompany, fixed assets, inventory, payroll, VAT/GST, and other critical accounts; clear aged items.

Intercompany: Manage intercompany postings, confirmations, eliminations, settlements, and transfer-pricing entries; resolve currency and timing differences.

Fixed Assets: Govern capitalization policy, asset master data, depreciation runs, disposals, impairments, and month-end FA subledger close.

Reporting: Deliver trial balance, financial statements, variance analysis, and management packs; support consolidation and group reporting requirements.

Journal Entries & GL Maintenance: Post and review journal entries for accruals, prepayments, and adjustments. Maintain accuracy of general ledger accounts.

End-to-end RTR process: Execute journal entries, maintain general ledger (GL), manage intercompany, fixed assets, taxes, accruals, and reconciliations in line with GAAP/IFRS

Month-end/quarter-end/year-end close: Close books timely, resolve discrepancies, and perform variance analysis on P&L trends.

Balance sheet reconciliations: Reconcile GL, bank, fixed assets, intercompany, and other key accounts; document and resolve variances.

Perform reconciliations for bank accounts, intercompany, fixed assets, and other balance sheet accounts.

Audit & compliance: Support internal/external audits; maintain internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Process improvements: Identify and implement efficiency gains, automation, and standardization initiatives.

Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Operations teams; provide insights and recommendations to senior management.