Associate Vice President of Finance

Introduction


Overview

Lead a large Finance Controllership function comprising Chartered Accountants responsible for Finance Close, Financial Reporting, Legal Entity Control, and Statutory Reporting activities. This is a Senior leadership role with significant people and stakeholder management responsibilities, operating within a manager-of-managers structure.

The role will oversee an organization of approximately 100 finance professionals, with direct reports comprising qualified Chartered Accountants leading various reporting and controllership teams. The incumbent will be responsible for driving operational excellence, talent development, stakeholder engagement, governance, and delivery of critical financial reporting and close processes across the function.

How you'll make an impact

Responsibilities:

The team under this individual will be primarily undertaking the following tasks.

Prepare accurate monthly financial reports, assist in the preparation of presentations

that provide thoughtful analysis, identify action items, and effectively frame decisions that need to be made

• Review, process, gather, and compile accounting transactions and documents throughout the month for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with general accounting principles and established internal control policies and procedures.
• Ensure financial integrity and timely monthly, quarterly and year-end close processes.
• Partner with stakeholders across Corporate Financial Operations to improve financial and accounting accuracy.
• Record and review journal entries related to Divisional branch results.
• Review and investigate reconciliation variances, assisting management to develop appropriate action plans addressing issues identified.
• Provide support for internal and external audits including control walkthroughs, documentation support and inquiry response.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and coordinate cross-functionally to meet strict project execution deadlines.
• Prepare accurate monthly financial reports, assist in the preparation of presentations that provide thoughtful analysis, identify action items, and effectively frame decisions that need to be made.
• Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert to provide additional insights.
• Work on corporate projects and initiatives that might impact the entire organization.

About you

Qualifications:

Qualifications and Certifications: Chartered Accountant 

Relevant experience: 18 years

Hands on experience on Accounting, Reconciliations, Intercompany, R2R processes

Extensive team management and stakeholder management experience 

Shifts: 1 PM to 10 PM IST. On peak Business days – month ends, quarter ends and year ends, there could be a requirement to stretch to cover US hours. 

Communication: Proficient in written and verbal English

The candidate should possess an amiable and collaborative personality, with the ability to build strong working relationships across teams and global stakeholders. They should demonstrate a strong alignment with Gallagher’s culture and ways of working, while fostering a positive and inclusive team environment. 

Key Skills required:

• Good working knowledge of accounting standards (US / UK GAAP/IFRS), account reconciliations, and month end close experience. Hands on experience.
• Proficient with Microsoft suite of products – Excel & PowerPoint
• Management: This role will require team management and stakeholder management capabilities
• Domain:Domain strength & capabilities on Accounting, Reporting is required. Good working knowledge of the P&C insurance brokerage business is preferred but not a mandate
• Process Transformation: Candidate should clearly be able to articulate ideas on Finance Process Transformation, Automations, AI and Analytics. Candidate should have demonstrated this in his current/previous roles.
• Controls/Audits/Regulatory environment: Candidate should have been exposed to running regulated processes with due importance to the Control Framework
• Communication: Candidate should be very good in written and verbal communication. This is very important.
• Others Candidate should have exposure to working in multi-cultural setting with global teams and stakeholders. Should have good presentation skills

Additional Information

At Gallagher, we believe supporting our colleagues goes far beyond the role itself. For more information, visit our Benefits page.

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits programs designed to support your well-being 
• Career development opportunities and ongoing learning 
• A collaborative, people-first culture with accessible leadership 
• The opportunity to do meaningful work with global reach and local impact 

At Gallagher, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to join our Talent Community to stay connected to additional career opportunities. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles.

Gallagher is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)