Philips Hiring for Senior Accounting Specialist – Level 1 Job at Chennai Full Time

Job Title

Senior Accounting Specialist – Level 1

Job Description

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About PHILIPS:

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.

The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

About Philips Global Business Services (GBS)

Philips Global Business Services delivers excellence in the execution of business services, enabling an agile repeatable framework to leverage market opportunities that contribute to extending our leadership as a Health Technology company. Our people are a key part of the transformation program in Philips and at GBS, you become part of a global team of professionals that form the backbone of this journey.

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Ensure revenue recognition for equipment business, as per accounting standard (IFRS15). Review balance sheet account reconciliation at enterprise level. Execute monthly ICS/Sox controls on time. Perform month end close for the assigned activities / markets. Support year end audits.

You are responsible for

• Execution and take responsibility for ICS/Sox controls to make it effective. Take corrective actions and documentation for audit purposes.
• Proactively identify control deficiencies and work with business to mitigate deficiencies / risks.
• Review of JVs, BSARs, GBSR, Internal Controls related documentation
• Preparation of judgmental JVs
• Verify compliance with accounting standards and regulations based on IFRS
• Month-close activities
• Liaise with Market stakeholders on the regular activities / alignment/escalation management
• Provide accurate & timely data for fiscal reporting and other requirements.
• Justification of end balance and documentation of aged / manual items
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and automation
• Responsible for managing the performance of 3rd party colleagues
• E2E responsible for all accounting processes
• Support year-end audits including, process walkthrough, test of controls, documentation, coordination.
• Ensures all business events and transactions are properly recorded and justified
• Responsible for Continuous Improvement projects and drive standardization as per goals.
• Provide commentary for the variances in Trial Statement Review & lead TSR calls based on role
• Achieving RTR Goals & Key performance Indicators

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• CA/CMA with at least 3-5 years of experience or MBA Finance/ Semi qualified Finance professionals eg: CA, CMA etc with at least 8 years of experience
• Hands on experience in Microsoft Office
• Knowledge in SAP would be preferred
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, penchant for bringing new ideas and looking for continuous improvements

In return, we offer you

A meaningful career, with new challenges in our dynamic organization, working in an encouraging multinational and multicultural environment. We are happy to provide you with this opportunity to work with new technologies. You will be surrounded by passionate and committed, colleagues who share your ambition to create outstanding customer experiences. Your work will be ambitious and full of opportunities for growth. Variety and challenge will be part of your daily routines.

How we work at Philips
Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.
Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way. Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:
We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There’s a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.
We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.
We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

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