Junior Project Manager

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Foreign Accountant to join our finance team. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in international accounting, financial reporting, and cross-border taxation. This role involves managing the company's financial operations related to foreign subsidiaries, compliance with international accounting standards, and ensuring accurate financial reporting in multiple currencies. The Foreign Accountant will work closely with various departments to maintain accurate financial records, provide financial analysis, and support strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Financial Reporting & Analysis:
• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for international entities in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or local GAAP.
• Consolidate financial statements across various regions and subsidiaries, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Perform variance analysis and provide explanations for key financial figures to senior management.

• Foreign Currency Management:
• Oversee the accounting for foreign exchange transactions and manage currency risk.
• Ensure accurate conversion of foreign transactions and balances in line with current exchange rates.
• Analyze and report on currency fluctuations and their impact on financial results.

• Tax Compliance:
• Ensure compliance with local and international tax laws, including VAT, withholding tax, and transfer pricing regulations.
• Prepare and file tax returns for foreign subsidiaries, working closely with tax advisors to optimize tax positions.
• Manage tax audits and ensure timely resolution of any tax-related issues.

• Cross-Border Transactions:
• Manage and reconcile intercompany transactions and balances.
• Prepare documentation for international transactions to comply with transfer pricing and other regulatory requirements.
• Monitor and maintain foreign bank accounts, ensuring accurate and timely payment processing.

• Audit & Internal Controls:
• Coordinate with external auditors during audits for international entities, ensuring timely and accurate submissions of required documents.
• Maintain strong internal controls and ensure adherence to financial policies and procedures.
• Identify and implement process improvements in financial operations and reporting.

• Collaboration & Communication:
• Work closely with local finance teams, management, and other departments to ensure alignment on financial reporting and strategic goals.
• Provide financial advice and guidance to business units regarding international finance and accounting issues.
• Liaise with international stakeholders to resolve accounting issues and provide regular financial updates.

• Regulatory Compliance:
• Stay updated on international accounting and tax regulations, ensuring that the company remains compliant with evolving laws and standards.
• Ensure all financial practices are in line with international financial regulations, including but not limited to Sarbanes-Oxley, IFRS, and local GAAP.

Requirements:

• Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. A Master’s degree or professional certifications such as CPA, ACCA, or similar is highly preferred.

• Experience:
• Minimum of 5 years of accounting experience, with at least 2 years focused on international or foreign accounting roles.

• Skills:
• Strong knowledge of accounting software (e.g., SAP, Oracle, QuickBooks) and proficiency in Excel (advanced level).
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to liaise with international stakeholders.
• Proficiency in multiple languages (optional but desirable depending on the region).

This role provides a great opportunity to work in an international environment with exposure to global financial practices. If you are a highly motivated and experienced accountant with a passion for international finance, we would love to hear from you!

Support at Exotel is different. The goal is not just to deliver help to our customers, but to deliver happiness. It's not the same questions over and over again, and often involves researching/understanding the business side of how companies use our platform to build their communication applications and help accordingly.

Providing time-sensitive help to meet the customer’s needs during each interaction is of utmost importance.

Exotel is one of Southeast Asia’s largest cloud telephony companies. Our aim is to change the way enterprises look at customer communication. We build the best in class communication products that power the companies of today and tomorrow. Our technology enables customer communication for our clients such as Uber, Ola, Go-Jek, Redbus, Flipkart, Quikr, Practo,Lazada, Redmart, to name a few.

We are a young company with humble beginnings in 2011 that grew  from a 3 member team to 150+ employees in 2018. Our technology has connected 85 million people, powered 1.2 billion customer calls, powered 3.2 billion voice API calls, 3.2 billion business SMS powered. Read our 2018 growth story https://2018.exotel.com/">here.

Customer Happiness is one of our key differentiators. In this role you will be the customer champion for Exotel, thrive to create great customer experience while responding to customer inquiries, resolving their queries and ensure all the agreed SLA’s are met consistently. In this role, you will be working with internal and external stakeholders with high level of ownership on your deliverables with customer first approach.

• You're empathetic to customers and can easily put yourself in their shoes. You listen and understand well. You’re smart and know that not everyone comes with the same skill sets and help people whether they are technically inclined or not. Your job is to make the customer feel empowered and happy after each interaction.
• You love solving problems and have the ability to provide solutions to technical problems that customers face. You never give up when you don't know the answer right away.
• You have dual qualities of time management, patience and ability to speak to customers with confidence and conviction.
• You write well. You know exactly what word or punctuation to use based on the context.
• As we are an API driven company, you either know how applications are built using APIs or have a keen interest to learn.

• You want to be an enabler for business success with an appetite for steep learning.
• You enjoy mentoring and coaching teams, take pride in teams success.
• You enjoy solving problems and thrive for excellence

• You’ll be our Product Champ in all areas. Providing solutions to different problems of clients by taking help of different internal tools, coordinating with Tech Support (this is one team with whom you’ll be working the most), Network operations, Customer Success, Product and Finance teams.
• You'll work one-on-one with customers, helping them to get the most out of Exotel. You might wing unplanned Skype calls and live screen-shares apart from answering phone calls and responding to emails.
• Ensure that all the related notes/ call comments are properly documented and suitable information is provided to clients.
• Maintain our https://support.exotel.in/support/home" target="_blank">knowledge base site. Write, edit and help create content whenever necessary.
• We work 24*7, considering we now are expanding geographically. We expect you to be comfortable working in rotational shifts (you’ll be working from home during nights and over weekends, though)

• 3+ years of industry experience in administering (including setting up, managing, monitoring) data processing pipelines (both streaming and batch) using frameworks such as Kafka, ELK Stack, Fluentd and streaming databases like druid
• Strong industry expertise with containerization technologies including kubernetes, docker-compose
• 2+ years of industry in experience in developing scalable data ingestion processes and ETLs
• Experience with cloud platform services such as AWS, Azure or GCP especially with EKS, Managed Kafka
• Experience with scripting languages. Python experience highly desirable.
• 2+ Industry experience in python
• Experience with popular modern web frameworks such as Spring boot, Play framework, or Django
• Demonstrated expertise of building cloud native applications
• Experience in administering (including setting up, managing, monitoring) data processing pipelines (both streaming and batch) using frameworks such as Kafka, ELK Stack, Fluentd
• Experience in API development using Swagger
• Strong expertise with containerization technologies including kubernetes, docker-compose
• Experience with cloud platform services such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration, Jenkins

• Design and Implement Large scale data processing pipelines using Kafka, Fluentd and Druid
• Assist in dev ops operations
• Develop data ingestion processes and ETLs
• Design and Implement APIs
• Assist in dev ops operations
• Identify performance bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and documentation
• Communicate with stakeholders regarding various aspects of solution.
• Mentor team members on best practices

What You’ll Do 

• Synthesize data to provide actionable insights to the leadership and the product team to influence strategy and growth.
• Build dashboards and tools, craft analysis, and tell stories with data to help our teams make better decisions.
• Track user performance data and map it to key learning metrics for deeper insights
• Monitor the performance of new features and recommend iterations based on your findings
• Partner with other stakeholders to scope features that solve user problems
• Ownership of full analytics for the Business Unit/ Performance metric: Planning, structuring, identifying key reports to be made, and automation of the reports
• Monitor and measure launched initiatives [A/B testing] and feed learnings back into the development process
• Prepare reports for the management stating trends, patterns, and predictions using relevant data

Required skills

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• Strong statistical skills to help collect, measure, organize and analyze data 

• 1-4 years of work experience in an EdTech product startup or analytics firm
• Experience in Data Visualisation, Excel, CleverTap & strong MongoDB database management skills
• Ability to learn new tech tools and softwares quickly
• Passion to work with data for a larger social impact
• Familiarity with coding (specifically Node environment) is a plus
• Ability to transform numbers into stories

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Planning a new feature or planning to enhance an existing one
• Developing new features
• Fixing existing/new bugs
• Adding tests to the current test kit

Desired Candidate Profile:

• Deep understanding of JavaScript and Angular Framework
• Understanding of Git and pull requests
• Clear written and spoken communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• 2+ years in web development using Angular

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