Accounting Manager/Senior Accounting Leader
Dow Chemical View all jobs
- Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
As an Accounting Manager/Senior Accounting Leader based in Navi Mumbai you will play a critical role in maintaining the accuracy and completeness of the company’s financial records in compliance with US GAAP and local statutory requirements. This position provides leadership to a team of accounting individual contributors and ensures accounting activity recorded within the company’s records and books are accurate and complete. Responsible for daily oversight and training needs of team, driving automation, streamlining through standardization, and ensuring monthly closing and invoicing comply with contractual requirements.In this role, you will lead one or more teams of professionals and/or first-line leaders of operational support employees. You will need to have knowledge of the business operations of your discipline or functional area. You will need to fully understand these business operations, cost flows, inventory movement, contractual obligations, and how teams work together to achieve operational objectives. You should be able to guide and persuade others, both internally and externally, to adopt a different point of view.It is your responsibility to be able to identify technical and operational problems and recognize and understand broader impacts across multiple teams within your discipline or functional area. You will need to be able to lead one or more similar teams of professional individual contributors within your discipline. You also may lead teams of technical operations, business operations, or operational support employees who may or may not have supervisors. You will set priorities and allocate resources to align with business objectives and plans of execution. Your work is guided by policies and departmental plan and your performance impacts your team’s ability to achieve service, quality, and timeliness of objectives.Key Responsibilities –
- Ensure timely and accurate execution of accounting activities in line with company standards, which could include:
- Identify and appropriately communicate potential risks and identify improvement opportunities
- Lead team to solve technical and operational accounting problems that have broad impact across multiple teams
- Oversees recording and monitoring of contractual obligations; ensures activity is accurate, complete, and compliant to accounting standards
- Detailed understanding of agreements to ensure globally compliant with all tax and legal requirements, cost flows, and legal invoicing requirements
- Monitor and maintain work processes to ensure internal control and data integrity
- Employee development across varied levels of employees
- Internal and External Audit support
- Bachelor’s degree in commerce; Chartered Accountant or US CPA preferred.
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in financial accounting with US GAAP
- Proficient in financial accounting
- Leadership experience of large teams
- Fluent in English (both written and spoken)
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, Power BI, Power Query, and Excel
- Influential leadership
- Strong cross-functional relationships
- Analytical mindset
- Excellent communication skills
- Detail-oriented approach to processes
- Highly collaborative and able to work effectively across levels and functions
- Relocation assistance is not available with this position.
- The ability to accommodate flexible schedule aligned with international time zone is essential.
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)