Job Description

The British Council builds connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education and the English language.

We work in two ways - directly with individuals to transform their lives, and with governments and partners to make a bigger difference for the longer term, creating benefit for millions of people all over the world. We help young people to gain the skills, confidence and connections they are looking for to realise their potential and to participate in strong and inclusive communities. We support them to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications. Our work in arts and culture stimulates creative expression and exchange and nurtures creative enterprise. We connect the best of the UK with the world and the best of the world with the UK.

These connections lead to an understanding of each other's strengths and of the challenges and values that we share. This builds trust between people in the UK and other nations which endures even when official relations may be strained. We work on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2019-20 we connected with 80 million people directly and with 791 million overall, including online and through our broadcasts and publications.

Job Title: R2R Lead - Fixed Assets

Purpose of job:

The role is required to develop strong relationship with Financial Accounting based in UK and work as part of their virtual team. This role will give the right candidate an opportunity to work on a wide range of finance issues and interact with senior Finance stakeholders. The role requires a person to work on year end deliverables and ensure timely deliverable of year end audit requirement

Role context

• To manage fixed assets activities
• Manage Reporting
• SAP skills (Level 2) Understands and has SAP knowledge relevant to the responsibilities based on the list of activities being performed.
• Stake Holder Management

Main opportunities/challenges for this role

Accountabilities, responsibilities, and main duties

• Perform fixed asset accounting process (capitalisation, disposals, Intercompany assets transfer, migrations, FAR and TB reconciliations) without errors & in line with the agreed timetable with UK stakeholders.
• Engage with the UK FA team to take on additional activities pertaining to fixed asset accounting.
• Support in UAT of implementing fixed asset process to the new entities.
• Act as a Subject matter expert of the process
• Timely closure of fixed asset issues

Year end and audit support

• Deliver the year end reporting tasks like preparation of tangible, intangible & heritage assets notes to accounts, reconciliation with BPC etc.
• Liaison with audit team in smooth conduct of fixed assets audit.
• Support critical projects which impacts the financial process

Information Security

• Ensure that their workforce are aware of the information security policies and comply with them
• Ensures that the team complies to ISO 27001 and IGA related requirements
• Send account opening requests effectively
• Disable accounts immediately for leavers and Absconders /on long leaves
• Document and monitor / review access levels of his/her team
• Provide security awareness and education to team
• Manage Records to ensure compliance to Freedom of information act
• Ensure incidents of their respective functions are closed within SLAs

Role specific knowledge and experience

• Hands on experience in working on the FA module in SAP
• Experience in managing month end accounting activities
• Proficient in use of MS office applications
• Ability to analyse data, convert it into information useful for decision making
• SAP skills (Level 2) Understands and has SAP knowledge relevant to the responsibilities based on the list of activities being performed.
• BI - Develop advanced level of knowledge to extract data from the portal to be able to analyse issues (such as Unallocated costs etc) relating to Planning and Forecasting as well as understand the logics behind the existing reports and work with the Data and Systems team to work on developing new reports or customising the existing reports.
• Advanced MS Office skills: Ability to use Excel for consolidation and analysis. Able to create complex formulae and develop intuitive excel reports for detailed analysis

Qualifications

CA/ ICWA / MBA

Further Information

Pay Band - 6

Contract Type - Indefinite

Department/Country - GSS Finance (Finance Transactions)/ India - Noida

Closing Date (Time) - 18th Nov'22 (IST -23:59)

A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

Equality , Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement

The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

The British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults who we work with.

We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989.

Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed; these will include qualification checks, reference checks, identity & criminal record checks in line with legal requirements and with the British Council's Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.

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