Senior Accountant Accounting Governance (Bengaluru)

Senior Accountant - Accounting Governance & Reconciliation Controls Role Summary The Senior Accountant, Accounting Governance & Reconciliation Controls will support hands-on execution of account reconciliation quality assurance, reconciliation policy compliance, SOX control activities, issue identification, remediation tracking, and governance reporting across Record-to-Report processes. This role is suited for a strong accounting and controls professional with experience in balance sheet reconciliations, journal reviews, SOX/ICFR testing, audit support, dashboards, SOP documentation, and stakeholder follow-up. The Senior Accountant will work closely with Accounting Governance leadership, control owners, process teams, Internal Audit, SOX PMO, and external auditors to maintain a disciplined control workplace. Key Responsibilities Account Reconciliation Quality Assurance Perform quality assurance reviews over balance sheet reconciliations, journals, and related R2R activities in accordance with reconciliation policy and control requirements. Review reconciliations for completeness, accuracy, timely preparation and approval, adequate support, aging items, reconciling items, and policy exceptions. Identify unsupported balances, overdue items, recurring variances, documentation gaps, and potential control issues; escalate themes and risks to management. Track remediation actions with preparers, reviewers, approvers, and process owners until closure. SOX, ICFR & Control Execution Execute assigned SOX and non-SOX control activities related to account reconciliations, journal entries, close processes, and finance operations. Prepare and maintain control evidence, testing support, walkthrough documentation, SOPs, process narratives, and governance trackers. Support RACM updates, control owner certification, audit planning, evidence requests, and remediation follow-up. Coordinate with Internal Audit, SOX PMO, external auditors, and control owners to resolve e .