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WTW

Global risk management, insurance brokerage, consulting

Technical Accountant

Financial AccountingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaNo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience in corporate accounting or public accounting.
  • Knowledge of share-based accounting requirements in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles or International Financial Reporting Standards.
  • Experience preparing account reconciliations.
  • Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
  • Ability to communicate with management and work cross-functionally.
  • A process improvement mindset, including leveraging artificial intelligence and low-code tools where applicable.

Responsibilities

  • Own the monthly close process for share-based compensation, including recording journal entries, leveraging Power Query workflows as applicable, summarizing expense, and explaining variances to plan and/or forecast.
  • Reconcile share-based compensation accounts, research unexplained activity, and work with partners to achieve resolution.
  • Reconcile and report capital activity.
  • Assist with calculations of performance-based awards and past or future modifications to existing awards.
  • Assist with purchase accounting as applicable.
  • Answer audit and tax inquiries, including statutory reporting requests for entities around the world.
  • Record expense for an Employee Stock Purchase Plan and true up upon purchase.
  • Coordinate with local payrolls when awards vest and reconcile vesting activity.
  • Prepare quarterly disclosures.
  • Assist in reviewing the Pay versus Performance disclosures in the proxy statement.
  • Calculate intercompany recharges in accordance with agreements.
  • Assist with modeling and developing the budget.
  • Dynamically model Accounting Standards Codification 718 expense for potential new awards, providing a quick turnaround and multiple scenarios.
  • Provide the accounting impact for potential new hires and terminations, providing a quick turnaround.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of Accounting Standards Codification 718 on stock-based compensation.
  • Experience accounting for Performance Restricted Stock Units.
  • Experience accounting for an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Experience with Microsoft products, including Power Query.
  • Experience with Fidelity Plan Sponsor Web Station or another share-based compensation platform.
  • Enterprise resource planning experience and systems confidence, including recording journal entries and running reports from an enterprise resource planning system such as Oracle and/or Hyperion Financial Management.

About the Company

WTW

Global risk management, insurance brokerage, consulting

Willis Towers Watson provides risk management, advisory, and brokerage services to organizations worldwide. Its two segments are Risk & Broking, which identifies, quantifies, and places insurance coverage, and Health, Wealth & Career, which offers consulting, technology, and administration for health benefits, retirement plans, and talent programs. The company blends advisory services, technology platforms, and brokerage capabilities to deliver integrated risk and people solutions rather than relying on a single service line. Its goal is to help clients turn risk into a path for growth by aligning risk management with health, retirement, and talent strategies to support organizational success.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
1828

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