Accounting Manager
4 days left
Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace. Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
Position Summary
Harness is looking for an experienced Accounting Manager to be an integral part of the global accounting operations team. This position will be based in Bangalore,India and will be reporting to the Regional Controller. In this role, your primary responsibility is to ensure the smooth running of the day to day accounting operations of our entity in India. You will be our source of knowledge for everything to do with India accounting: Local bookkeeping and accounting regulations (IGAAP), local submissions to authorities, Statutory FS audit and tax returns. You will provide ideas and help brainstorm on process standardization, automation, and improvement in all aspects of accounting. You are expected to collaborate with cross functional business partners to build partnerships and efficiency. This is the perfect opportunity for someone who is self-sufficient, possesses a keen attention to detail, and has a curiosity and desire to improve processes and systems for scalability.
Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications/What You Need to Succeed:
Work Location/Work Hours:
This is a hybrid role with 3 days on-site in our Harness’s Bangalore office.
Flexible working hours with an overlapping of 2-3 hours to US business hours to collaborate with the global accounting team and global business partners.
WHAT YOU WILL HAVE AT HARNESS
Harness in the news:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers
We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.
Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.
If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.
Position Summary
Harness is looking for an experienced Accounting Manager to be an integral part of the global accounting operations team. This position will be based in Bangalore,India and will be reporting to the Regional Controller. In this role, your primary responsibility is to ensure the smooth running of the day to day accounting operations of our entity in India. You will be our source of knowledge for everything to do with India accounting: Local bookkeeping and accounting regulations (IGAAP), local submissions to authorities, Statutory FS audit and tax returns. You will provide ideas and help brainstorm on process standardization, automation, and improvement in all aspects of accounting. You are expected to collaborate with cross functional business partners to build partnerships and efficiency. This is the perfect opportunity for someone who is self-sufficient, possesses a keen attention to detail, and has a curiosity and desire to improve processes and systems for scalability.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the end-to-end accounting operations for India.
- Ensure compliance with local tax laws, statutory regulations, and company policies and procedures.
- Manage Month end close process for India.
- Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly and annual local and tax filings to the relevant authorities as required (GST, TDS etc)
- Lead yearly statutory audit and FS and CIT return submissions.
- Act as a source of knowledge for all local accounting and bookkeeping compliances.
- Manage accounting staff including recruitment and training of staff when necessary.
- Review and improve accounting processes and systems to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and security.
- Manage relationships with all stakeholders and foster strong collaboration with the rest of the Accounting and Finance Teams.
Required Qualifications/What You Need to Succeed:
- CPA (or equivalent).
- 5-10 years of accounting/general ledger experience with an emphasis knowledge of accounting related requirements and regulations in India.
- Experience with NetSuite is required. Expensify/Airbase/Zip experience is a plus.
- Proven experience in managing a team.
- Must be a self-starter, able to work independently on regular routine assignments, including managing time to meet critical deadlines.
- Strong work ethic and flexibility to work extended hours during critical periods such as month-end, quarter-end and year-end.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels of the organization both internally and externally.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft business suite with strong Excel/Googlesheets skills
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
Work Location/Work Hours:
This is a hybrid role with 3 days on-site in our Harness’s Bangalore office.
Flexible working hours with an overlapping of 2-3 hours to US business hours to collaborate with the global accounting team and global business partners.
WHAT YOU WILL HAVE AT HARNESS
- High learning opportunity
- Experience building a transformative product
- End-to-end ownership of your projects
- Fun work environment
- Competitive salary, health benefits
- A great team who will fight beside you in the trenches to accomplish your goals
Harness in the news:
- Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
- Welcome Split!
- Harness Recognized in Inc.'s Best Workplace Awards 2022
- Harness on LinkedIn: America's Great Companies to Work For -- And What You Can Learn From
- #6 - Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2021 list
- #17 on Forbes Top 50 Cloud Companies to Work For
- #47 on LinkedIn’ Top 50 Companies to Work For
- #2 on Quartz 2021 list best places to work for remote workers
- 2021 Career Launching Companies List
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers
We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.
Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.
If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.