Finance Manager

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Key Responsibilities:
• Perform the monthly and annual accounting closing on a timely and accurate manner and provide detailed analysis to identify trends and variances
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulations (both USGAAP and India GAAP) and local statutory requirements
• Manage cash flow, including weekly cash forecasting and working capital management and optimize the cash effectiveness 
• Review and supervise external/ intercompany account receivable and account payable related matters such as customer invoicing, customer payment collections, supplier invoice approval and payments through ERP/Pay Portal/Bank Transfer
• Review and supervise employee reimbursement validations and process through the portal
• Liaise with the external accounting firm on monthly statutory bookings, tax filings, payroll calculation and other matters
• Validate payroll calculations received from 3rd party and process the payroll payments, ensuring accuracy and timely distribution of employee salaries
• Collaborate with Global team members on intercompany transactions/ accounting issues, and challenges.  Working towards solutions and process efficiency
• Provide support in budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning
• Coordinate and manage external audits, working closely with auditors
• Establish and maintain internal controls to safeguard company assets
• Collaborate with local management and cross functions local teams to guide local team and align accounting processes and compliance for any new or amended business, commercial and functional requirements
• Recruit, train, and mentor accounting staff, conduct performance reviews, set goals, and provide continuous feedback to support employee growth
• Assist in the delivery of Finance projects as required
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field (master’s degree or CPA certification may be preferred), Professional Accountancy Qualification or professional tax qualification.
• 8-10 years of relevant work experience in a global organization, with at least 3 years in a supervisory or managerial position.
• Good knowledge of USGAAP, local GAAP and local taxation regulation
• Professional judgement and proactive problem-solving skill- Flexible, positive, detailed- minded, mature, and able to work independently
• Strong communication and leadership abilities
• Quick learner- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite required
• Experiences in Finance ERP is a plus, especially Workday
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively in a team