
Assistant Vice President – Financial Accounting
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Production of the monthly financial Statements ensuring that completeness and the accuracy of the leger
- Analytical review of financials and ledger reconciliations
- Review of month end capital adequacy for regulated entities and ensuring that the entities are adequately capitalised at all times
- Review of reporting under IFRS and associated workbooks for submission to M&G Group Head Office and ensuring any reporting and disclosure requirements are met.
- Production of Solvency II reporting for submission to M&G Group Head Office.
- Liaising with the third-party accountants/data providers for various reporting requirements.
- Review of Annual Report and Accounts – ensure that the accounts are prepared in line with the reporting requirements
- Liaise with the external auditors, ensuring that timescales are communicated and agreed and the auditors’ requirements are met to ensure timely completion of their work
- Review of Board packs and dashboards for Operational and Executive Committees
- Ensure compliance with current accounting standards, IFRS, SOX and Group Head Office procedures to demonstrate a solid financial control regime
- Support the implementation of new accounting standards and contribute to the delivery of other finance change projects supporting programmes with detailed accounting requirements and impact analysis
- Review and development of processes and procedures to accommodate business changes.
- Supporting continuous improvement through routine and bespoke analyses
- Plan and schedule work to meet deliverable time lines
- Maintain effective working relationships with other teams across M&G Finance, ensuring that Group reporting needs are communicated, understood and met
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and take personal accountability to maintain and enhance controls you are responsible for to support improvement of the overall control environment, customer outcomes
- Identify training and development needs of team members and co-ordinate with L&D
- Design and implement early warning system to prevent/control attrition
- Demonstrate a positive risk, compliance and control culture through the identification, assessment, monitoring and management of risks and issues within the business area, alongside ensuring timely and appropriate resolution of control weaknesses, actions and failures that arise
- Be accountable for delivering expert advice or service, using specialist knowledge and subject matter expertise for interpretation and implementation of accounting standards and business requirements
- Apply judgement to deliver outcomes, evaluating a range of potential solutions, considering the impact for accounting and reporting needs and requirements
- Manages conflicts that may impact delivery of monthly reports, reporting to Group, Regulatory Returns and Annual Report &Accounts
- Identity and anticipates need for changes to continuously improve quality and efficiency of output