Senior Accountant

TriNet is a leading provider of comprehensive human resources solutions for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). We enhance business productivity by enabling our clients to outsource their HR function to one strategic partner and allowing them to focus on operating and growing their core businesses. Our full-service HR solutions include features such as payroll processing, human capital consulting, employment law compliance and employee benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans and workers’ compensation insurance.

TriNet has a US nationwide presence and an experienced executive team. Our stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TNET. If you’re passionate about innovation and making an impact on the large SMB market, come join us as we power our clients’ business success with extraordinary HR.

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Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Accounting, Reporting & Financial Close

• Contribute to the end-to-end monthly, quarterly, and annual close process for India legal entities, ensuring timely completion of assigned activities and accurate financial reporting.
• Prepare accounting schedules, close working papers, statutory book support, and other documentation required for legal entity reporting.
• Maintain books of account in compliance with Indian GAAP, Companies Act requirements, and other applicable regulatory standards.
• Support period-end accounting activities, including accruals, provisions, prepayments, and other close-related adjustments.
• Prepare, analyze, and validate key balance sheet reconciliations, including bank reconciliations and supporting schedules, to ensure balances are accurate, complete, and properly substantiated.
• Identify and follow up on reconciling items, aged balances, and open issues to support timely resolution and clean reporting.

Tax, Regulatory & Statutory Compliance

• Assist with India tax compliance requirements, including GST, TDS/withholding tax, corporate tax, and related statutory filings.
• Prepare tax schedules, reconciliations, data inputs, and supporting documentation required for returns, filings, assessments, and audits.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders, external consultants, and tax advisors to ensure compliance deliverables are completed accurately and within prescribed timelines.
• Support responses to tax notices, assessments, audits, and information requests by collating required documentation and explanations.
• Assist with STPI and other export-related compliance requirements, including maintaining documentation, preparing periodic reports, and supporting submissions as applicable.
• Track compliance timelines and help ensure all regulatory obligations for India entities are monitored and completed on schedule.

Audit, Controls & Compliance Support

• Support the preparation of financial statements and related disclosures.
• Assist with statutory audits, tax audits, group audits, and internal audits by preparing schedules, reconciliations, supporting evidence, and management responses for assigned areas.
• Work with auditors and internal teams to address audit queries and ensure timely closure of audit requirements.
• Support the execution and documentation of internal financial controls, including evidence preparation, control testing support, and remediation tracking.
• Monitor audit observations, compliance action items, and control-related deliverables to ensure timely follow-up and resolution.
• Assist in managing recurring statutory compliance activities in collaboration with external compliance partners and internal business teams.

Stakeholder Management & Process Coordination

• Partner with auditors, advisors, service providers, and internal finance teams to support seamless execution of accounting, tax, audit, and compliance activities.
• Maintain compliance calendars, status trackers, process notes, and documentation repositories for India finance and legal entity activities.
• Coordinate activities performed by external providers, ensuring appropriate internal review, oversight, escalation, and follow-through.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying process gaps, improving documentation, and helping standardize recurring finance and compliance activities.
• Communicate clearly and proactively on status updates, pending items, risks, and timelines to relevant stakeholders.

Experience Required

• Finance professional with relevant hands on experience across accounting, audit, tax, compliance, and financial reporting.
• Hands-on exposure to legal entity accounting, month-end close processes, balance sheet reviews, and statutory reporting under Indian GAAP and the Companies Act.
• Working knowledge of India tax and regulatory compliance requirements, including GST, TDS/withholding tax, corporate tax, STPI, and related reporting obligations.
• Experience supporting statutory audits, internal audits, tax audits, and control reviews, including preparation of audit schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
• Strong analytical ability with excellent reconciliation, problem-solving, and follow-up skills.
• Ability to interpret financial data, investigate variances, resolve open items, and ensure accounting accuracy.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with the ability to quickly learn and work with new finance systems and reporting tools.
• Experience with Oracle would be an added advantage.

Personal Attributes

• Outstanding organizational skills with strong attention-to-detail;
• Team-oriented with strong integrity and professionalism.
• Ability to work in a collaborative manner and elicit corporation from and gain the confidence of a wide variety of participants including other departments.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment; able to drive issues to closure, is a self-starter committed to achieving results and has a strong sense of ownership and follow-through.
• Ability to work well under pressure and with time constraints; and,
• Ability to take the lead on various projects and communicate on follow-up items and progress for completion as scope of work expands, if necessary.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree and Masters Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Chartered Accountant, preferred, not mandatory.

Location

• Hyderabad, Telangana, India (On-site)

Travel Requirements

• Minimal

Work Environment

• Work in clean, pleasant, and comfortable office or home setting. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• This position is 100% in office.

Please Note: TriNet reserves the right to change or modify job duties and assignments at any time. The above job description is not all encompassing. Position functions and qualifications may vary depending on business necessity.

TriNet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants based on race, religion, color, disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), age, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. Any applicant with a mental or physical disability who requires an accommodation during the application process should contact [email protected] to request such an accommodation