Director - Accounts

4 Months ago • 12 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Zeta is a Next-Gen Banking Tech company seeking a Director of Accounts to lead its finance team. This global role will be responsible for accounting, auditing, and reporting for standalone and consolidated groups, driving excellence in processes across multiple corporate entities and businesses. Key responsibilities include implementing accounting systems, best-in-class practices, and internal controls for procurement, billing, and revenue reconciliation. The role ensures timely monthly and year-end financial closures, manages audits, and ensures compliance with relevant statutes and regulations. The ideal candidate will automate routine tasks and bring experience in managing teams and stakeholders.

Must have:

Implement accounting systems and processes
Ensure timely financial closures
Handle end-to-end audit process
Manage teams and stakeholders
Knowledge of IFRS and Indian AS
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Minimum 12 years of work experience

Good to have:

Experience with multiple accounting software/platforms
Experience in IT/Services or B2B SaaS/Fintech industry
Knowledge of US GAAP

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Job Details

All about Zeta Suite :

Zeta is a Next-Gen Banking Tech company that empowers banks and fintechs to launch banking products for the future. It was founded by Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati in 2015.Our flagship processing platform - Zeta Tachyon - is the industry’s first modern, cloud-native, and fully API-enabled stack that brings together issuance, processing, lending, core banking, fraud & risk, and many more capabilities as a single-vendor stack. 15M+ cards have been issued on our platform globally.

Zeta Tachyon offers:-

-Rich digital-first cardholder experiences.

-Native embeddable banking support.

-Hyper-Personalisation Policy Engine to launch segment-of-one card programs.

-Web-based product configurators to launch in days vs. quarters.

-Rapid innovation & extensibility via APIs, event streams, and more.

-Modern & intuitive web-based back office experiences.

-Next-gen regulatory risk & compliance capabilities.

Zeta is actively working with the largest Banks and Fintechs in multiple global markets transforming customer experience for multi-million card portfolios.

Zeta has over 1700+ employees - with over 70% roles in R&D - across locations in the US, EMEA, and Asia. We raised $280 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from Softbank, Mastercard, and other investors in 2021.

Learn more @ www.zeta.tech, careers.zeta.tech, Linkedin, Twitter

About the Role

Zeta is on an accelerated path to make digital payments easy, inclusive and valuable for corporations, employees and merchants globally. Our products revolve around the key idea that spending and receiving money should be easy, fast, and trouble-free. While building superior products each time, we would also need excellence from finance functions to achieve our goals & missions in Indian and global markets ensuring compliance, cost effectiveness and excellent accounting practices.

A position in our leadership, this is a global role that will set Zeta’s finance team to success in terms of accounting, auditing, reporting of standalone and consolidated groups. The role will drive excellence towards processes and will oversee multiple corporate entities and businesses across jurisdictions. As a leader, you will have senior people reporting into you.

Responsibilities

Understanding requirements, identifying, evaluating and implementing the most suitable accounting system/ tools needed to support the accounting needs of the organization
Implementing best in class accounting practices and Internal Control procedures considering:
Purchase to Procurement Cycle & Policies, SOPs and SLAs
Billing Processes and Systems to raise timely invoices and perform ageing analysis
Revenue and Cash Reconciliations and suggesting and implementing SOPs and SLAs
Ensure timely and accurate monthly closures
Ensure timely year end financial closures and consolidations as per Indian AS/ IFRS / US GAAP
Handle end to end audit process and ensure timely completion of audits
Understand the applicability and ensure compliance with all the relevant statutes impacting the company.
Keep abreast with all regulations impacting the companies accounting, compliance and reporting requirements as well as those impacting the company’s operations
Identify and implement processes to automate all routine repetitive tasks

Skills

You bring experience in dealing with Multiple Accounting Software/ Platforms
You have been involved in planning and streamlining processes and implementing accounting systems/ processes
You also bring experience in Managing teams and dealing Senior Management, Investors and other stakeholders
You have excellent knowledge of IFRS, Indian AS and preferably of US GAAP as well
You are a Go Getter who is both passionate and proactive
You are a quick learner with strong analytical and problem solving skills
You have great communication and presentation Skills

Experience and Qualifications

Chartered Accountant with a minimum of 12 years work ex preferably in a Services/ IT industry.
Should have an experience in Leading the Accounts / Finance function of a credible organization, preferably in the IT / services space or a B2B SAAS industry or Fintech space

Life At Zeta

At Zeta, we want you to grow to be the best version of yourself by unlocking the great potential that lies within you. This is why our core philosophy is ‘People Must Grow.’ We recognize your aspirations; act as enablers by bringing you the right opportunities, and let you grow as you chase disruptive goals.

#LifeAtZeta is adventurous and exhilarating at the same time. You get to work with some of the best minds in the industry and experience a culture that values the diversity of thoughts. If you want to push boundaries, learn continuously and grow to be the best version of yourself, Zeta is the place to be! Explore the life at zeta

Zeta is an equal opportunity employer.

At Zeta, we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of job history, disability, gender identity, religion, race, marital/parental status, or another special status. We are proud to be an equitable workplace that welcomes individuals from all walks of life if they fit the roles and responsibilities.