Northland Controls is seeking an experienced Management Accountant to join our Finance team in Chennai, India. This is a great opportunity for an accounting professional who enjoys taking ownership of month-end activities, management reporting, reconciliations, and continuous improvement in a global business environment.
In this role, you'll support the accuracy and integrity of our financial reporting by preparing management accounts, journals, reconciliations, VAT returns, and other key accounting activities. You'll also work closely with Finance colleagues across the organization and support global projects and initiatives.
This position is based in our Chennai office, and candidates must be local to the Chennai area and able to work from the office as required.
If you're a detail-oriented accounting professional who enjoys solving problems, improving processes, and working as part of a global Finance team, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Prepare month-end journals, including correcting entries, accruals, and deferrals, to support accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Prepare monthly management accounts and supporting financial information.
- Perform general ledger reconciliations, checks, and controls as part of the month-end close process.
- Maintain the general ledger and prepare journal entries in accordance with company policies and accounting requirements.
- Perform intercompany reconciliations and investigate and resolve differences.
- Complete Goods Received Not Invoiced (GRNI) reconciliations and follow up on outstanding items.
- Perform monthly bank reconciliations for assigned bank accounts.
- Manage fixed asset accounting, records, reconciliations, and reporting.
- Prepare and submit quarterly VAT returns.
- Coordinate with third-party providers on EU VAT reclaims and track and report on the status of outstanding claims.
- Investigate significant variances against budgets and forecasts and provide clear supporting analysis.
- Work with external accountants and auditors to support annual reporting and audit requirements.
- Review accounting processes, controls, and practices and identify opportunities to improve the accuracy and efficiency of financial operations.
- Support the Financial Controller with global Finance projects and initiatives.
- Provide guidance and support to other members of the Finance team as required.
- Support additional Finance projects and responsibilities based on business needs.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field, or finalist status with ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or a comparable professional accounting qualification.
- 3+ years of general ledger accounting experience in a professional environment.
- Experience working in a multinational or global business environment is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of month-end close activities, general ledger accounting, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and financial controls.
- Experience preparing or supporting monthly management accounts.
- Experience with intercompany accounting and reconciliations.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to investigate and explain financial variances.
- Experience working with ERP systems; experience with NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms is preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Strong attention to detail with a commitment to accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with colleagues across different teams and regions.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced Finance environment.
- Must be local to Chennai and able to work from the Northland Controls Chennai office as required.
Why Join Northland Controls?
At Northland Controls, you'll be part of a global team focused on delivering exceptional security solutions and service to our clients. As a Management Accountant, you'll have the opportunity to take ownership of key accounting activities, collaborate with Finance colleagues across multiple regions, and contribute to improving our global financial processes.
We value collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and people who are willing to take ownership, solve problems, and make things better.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field, or finalist status with ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or comparable professional accounting qualification
- 3+ years of general ledger accounting experience in a professional environment
- Experience working in a multinational or global business environment
- Strong knowledge of month-end close activities, general ledger accounting, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and financial controls
- Experience preparing or supporting monthly management accounts
- Experience with intercompany accounting and reconciliations
- Strong analytical skills and ability to investigate and explain financial variances
- Experience working with ERP systems
- Experience with NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to accurate, timely financial reporting
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills across teams and regions
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced Finance environment
- Local to Chennai and able to work from the Northland Controls Chennai office as required
What We Do
Driven by a Do Whatever It Takes philosophy, Northland Controls designs, installs, manages and harmonizes physical security systems across the globe with unparalleled services. No excuses. We have successfully executed thousands of projects for the world’s most demanding organizations—especially those grappling with rapid worldwide growth. Bound by a unique set of core values, more than 260 highly trained security professionals relentlessly focus on the highest quality integration and complex, security solutions. The values that unite us are: Take on Challenges, Be Honorable, Have Fun, Put People First and Do Whatever It Takes. We believe our core values set us apart in the industry and have helped us grow organically from $1.5 million to $68 million since 2005. We now have two offices in the Silicon Valley, as well as offices in London, Shanghai, Singapore, Bangalore, Washington, DC and Rochester, NY. Northland excels at integrating software and security components together to provide harmonious security, while having the operational expertise to manage these programs. We have built a comprehensive network of heavily vetted system integration partners whose work we hold to the same standard as our own. This equates to hundreds of people available at any given time to respond to our customers’ needs. This year alone, we’ve installed systems in over 70 countries.
