Senior Accountant

Company Overview

Job Overview

Intuit is a global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges. Serving more than 100 million customers worldwide with TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Imagine a career where your creative inspiration can fuel BIG innovation. Year-over-year, Intuit has been recognized as a best employer and is consistently ranked on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies To Work For” , Fortune World’s “Most Admired Software Companies” lists and the Economic Times’ “India’s Best Companies to Work For” . Immerse yourself in our award-winning culture while creating breakthrough solutions that simplify the lives of consumers and small businesses and their customers worldwide.

Intuit’s Finance team drives business growth and profitability through strategic, financial and operational leadership. Our team is composed of finance, accounting, supply chain, corporate strategy & development and tax professionals that support and enhance Intuit's operating efficiencies.

Come join Intuit's Controllership, Assurance, & Operations organization as a Senior Accountant (full-time) on our Shared Services Center team, based out of Bangalore, India. We are looking for leaders with a passion for innovation to join our team and revolutionize the way the world does business.

Responsibilities

This position is primarily responsible for assuring accounting functions are working accurately, efficiently, and within our accounting policies. The ideal candidate will have the ability to collaborate and lead across multiple functions and roles to achieve accounting objectives. If and when issues are identified, the leader will use their strong change management skills and to drive issues through to resolution and subsequent validation with the full transparency of involved stakeholders at all levels within the larger Intuit organization.

• Gather, prepare, test and maintain journal entries for a broad range of accounting areas consistent with US GAAP and corporate accounting policies to ensure close timelines are met
• Participate in the month and quarter end close process and related responsibilities for the accounting department, including quarterly Balance Sheet flux commentary
• Effectively assess risk over accounts and areas of responsibility. Apply judgment to ensure that financial integrity of accounting entries, accruals, and account reconciliations are intact and operating effectively
• Research and document company position on technical accounting issues with the ability to document accounting conclusions in a technical white paper. Effectively communicate and present details in lay terms to non-accounting business partners.
• Assist in research of technical accounting issues as needed. Apply proper accounting treatment required as a basis for booking journal entries and gathering audit evidence
• Prepare and maintain reports / schedules for management, prepare schedules requested by internal and external auditors
• Support compliance and improve processes and internal controls in the area of responsibility
• Understands business unit and functional group strategy, priorities and offerings, developing deep knowledge of core and adjacent markets
• Work directly with external auditors to support financial statement audits and control environment testing
• Continually assess and design desktop procedures for all areas of responsibilities. Ensure that these work-flows are designed to maximize internal controls and efficiency
• Drive automation, simplification and improvement initiatives. Adoption of best practices to ensure timely and accurate reporting
• Adherence to monthly KPI & SLA

Qualifications

• 4+ years of technical accounting experience with accruals, journal entries, and account reconciliations
• Candidates should have strong technical (GAAP) and financial accounting skills and Public accounting or large public company experience is strongly preferred.
• Software industry and Shared Service Center experience a plus
• Analytical thinker who can identify and implement effective process improvements.
• Large accounting software package expertise (Oracle financials, Blackline etc)
• Strong attention to detail, excellent organizational and multitasking skills, strong written and oral communication skills
• Outstanding Excel skills
• CA/CPA is a must