Senior Manager - Record-to-Report

Job Description

Job Purpose: The Senior Manager - Record to Report (R2R) Tower Lead will provide strategic and operational leadership for the Record-to-Report function within Harsco Environmental’ s India GCC, supporting multiple businesses, countries, and legal entities. The role is responsible for delivering a scalable, high-performing, and control-focused R2R organization covering General Ledger, Period-End Close, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Fixed Assets, Intercompany Accounting, Financial Reporting support, controls, and audit support
Job Responsibilities / KRAs:

Job Responsibilities / KRAs:

1. R2R Tower Leadership & Service Delivery

• Provide end-to-end leadership for the R2R tower, establishing clear accountability, governance, service standards, KPIs and escalation mechanisms across supported businesses and entities.
• Ensure effective delivery across General Ledger, Financial Close, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Fixed Assets, Intercompany and related accounting activities.
• Partner with the Head of Finance Shared Services and global Finance leadership to strengthen service delivery, financial controllership and the future-state operating model.

2. Financial Close, Accounting & Reporting

• Lead governance over monthly, quarterly and annual close, ensuring accurate, complete and timely financial accounting and reporting.
• Oversee General Ledger activities including journals, accruals, allocations, reconciliations and period-end accounting, with appropriate review of significant or unusual matters.
• Improve close speed, predictability and quality through standardization, automation, effective issue resolution and adherence to accounting policies.

3. Balance Sheet, Fixed Assets & Intercompany Governance

• Own balance-sheet reconciliation governance, with risk-based review of material accounts and timely resolution of aged, unsupported or unreconciled balances.
• Provide oversight of Fixed Asset and Intercompany accounting, reconciliation and related financial controls.
• Identify recurring accounting issues and drive sustainable root-cause resolution while ensuring material financial risks are appropriately escalated.

4. Financial Governance & Business Partnership

• Maintain strong financial governance across R2R, ensuring adherence to accounting policies, internal controls, statutory requirements and applicable audit requirements.
• Partner with Legal Entity Controllers, Business Finance, FP&A, Tax, Treasury and Corporate/Regional Controllership to ensure accurate financial information, clear accountability and effective resolution of cross-functional matters.
• Provide accounting insights to support business decision-making and proactively identify, escalate and drive remediation of financial reporting, audit and control risks.

5. Global Process Standardization & Process Governance

• Partner with Global Process Owners to standardize R2R processes, controls, RACI, service expectations and ways of working across businesses and entities.
• Maintain effective governance over SOPs, Desk Procedures and end-to-end process flows, ensuring processes, controls, systems and handoffs are appropriately documented.
• Challenge unnecessary process variations and strengthen knowledge management to improve consistency, scalability and reduce key-person dependency.

6. Transition & Service Migration

• Lead R2R transitions into the India GCC, establishing governance across scope, timelines, knowledge transfer, controls, documentation, risks and dependencies.
• Ensure business continuity and accounting/control readiness throughout migration, followed by effective stabilization and hyper care.
• Establish repeatable transition practices and apply lessons learned to improve future Finance migrations.

7. Transformation, Technology & Continuous Improvement

• Lead the R2R transformation roadmap, driving process simplification, standardization, automation and elimination of non-value-added activities.
• Partner with Technology and Finance teams on ERP initiatives and leverage workflow, analytics, automation and appropriate AI capabilities to strengthen quality, productivity and controls.
• Promote exception-based management and ensure transformation initiatives deliver measurable improvements in process effectiveness and scalability.

8. Team Leadership & People Management

• Lead and develop a large RTR organization comprising Team Leads, Managers, and individual contributors.
• Manage teams across multiple countries, cultures, and time zones.
• Build succession plans and talent pipelines for key positions.
• Drive employee engagement, performance management, coaching, and capability development.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and customer centricity.

 9. Stakeholder Management

• Act as primary finance operations partner for Controllers, CFO organizations, Business Finance teams, and Country Finance leaders.
• Collaborate with Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Internal Audit, Compliance, and External Auditors.
• Conduct regular governance reviews with senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Ensure effective resolution of escalations and critical business issues.

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) is mandatory. Additional professional qualifications such as CPA, ACCA, CMA, or equivalent accounting certifications will be an added advantage.
• 10+ years of progressive experience across Accounting, R2R, Controllership, Financial Reporting or Finance Shared Services, including significant leadership experience in a multinational/GCC/GBS environment.
• Strong experience across General Ledger, Financial Close, Balance Sheet Governance, Fixed Assets, Intercompany, Financial Reporting, Controls and Audit.
• Demonstrated experience leading Managers/Senior Managers, multinational or multi-entity Finance operations and senior global stakeholders.
• Experience leading Finance transitions, process standardization, transformation, automation and ERP-enabled change.
• Exposure to ERP platforms such as Oracle, NetSuite, or SAP along with HFM, Oracle EPM, or similar

Key Performance Indicators

• Close timeliness, financial reporting accuracy and quality
• Balance Sheet reconciliation and aged-item governance
• Fixed Asset and Intercompany accounting quality
• Internal control, audit and compliance effectiveness
• SLA/KPI performance and stakeholder service outcomes
• Process standardization, automation and productivity improvement
• Successful transition and stabilization of new activities
• Talent development, succession, engagement and retention

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