Team Lead General Ledger - Accounting Shared Services

Key Responsibilities

Project Transition State:

• Support transition of GL activities from local entities into shared services, including process mapping, knowledge transfer, and stabilization (hyper care). 

• Plan and manage ramp-up of operations, including hiring, onboarding, training, and scaling team capacity in line with transition waves. 

• Ensure smooth handover and service continuity, meeting SLAs during transition and post-go-live phases. 

• Drive standardization and harmonization of processes across entities during migration. 

• Monitor transition KPIs (e.g., stabilization timelines, error rates, productivity ramp-up) and implement corrective actions as needed.

Standard Operations:

• Lead GL close activities, including journal entries, accruals, reclassifications, and close calendar execution.

• Review balance sheet reconciliations, account analyses, bank reconciliations, and close-related schedules.

• Ensure GL postings, reconciliations, reporting packs, and supporting documentation are accurate, complete, and compliant.

• Support financial reporting, variance analysis, management reporting, statutory/corporate reporting schedules, and audit requirements.

• Ensure compliance with accounting policies, internal controls, SOX or equivalent control requirements, and applicable accounting standards.

• Support internal and external audits, including audit schedules, evidence preparation, query resolution, and remediation tracking.

• Lead standardization, automation, SOP documentation, KPI/SLA tracking, and continuous improvement across GL/R2R processes.

• Manage stakeholder coordination with local finance, controllers, corporate finance, FP&A, tax, treasury, AP/AR, IT, and auditors.

• Lead and develop a team including workload planning, task allocation, performance management, coaching, cross-training, succession planning, and escalation management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Commerce, or related field.

• 8–10 years of experience in GL accounting, Record-to-Report, corporate accounting, or finance shared services.

• Strong experience with close, journal entries, reconciliations, reporting, audit support, controls, and compliance.

• Demonstrated experience leading larger accounting teams, preferably around 10–15 team members.

• Experience in multinational, shared services transition, corporate finance, or multi-entity environments preferred.

Technical Skills

• Strong ERP experience, preferably SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, Oracle, or equivalent.

• Advanced Excel skills and experience with reporting / BI tools such as Power BI.

• Preferred exposure to OneStream, or similar reconciliation, close, consolidation, and reporting tools.

• Strong understanding of accounting standards, internal controls, close governance, reconciliations, and audit documentation.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership, coaching, and people-development capability.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Ability to manage deadlines, escalations, and competing priorities during close and audit cycles.

• Continuous improvement mindset with ability to standardize, automate, and scale finance processes.