At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling, and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Could you be the full-time Inter-company Analyst – in Bangalore we’re looking for?
Your future role
Take on an exciting opportunity and apply your accounting and financial operations expertise within a dynamic global environment. You’ll work alongside a collaborative Finance Shared Services team, supporting intercompany accounting, payment operations, reconciliations, and financial reporting activities across multiple countries.
In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and compliance of intercompany transactions and financial records. Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with finance teams, business stakeholders, and external partners to manage invoice processing, payment execution, account reconciliations, settlement activities, and reporting processes while maintaining strong financial controls.
You'll specifically take care of end-to-end intercompany accounting operations, payment management, and balance sheet reconciliations, while also driving process standardization, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.
We’ll look to you for:
- Validate documents
- Process 3 way, 2 way and exception invoices
- Manage related litigations
- Process credit notes
- Manage credit note approvals
- Post recoveries, down payments and retentions
- Post other FI documents, adjustments
- Respond to supplier queries
- Prepare and publish payment schedules
- Generate payment proposal
- Review payment exceptions
- Obtain proposal validation
- Calculate and propose funding
- Execute various payment methods
- Reconcile bank debits with payment file
- Record payments entries in ERP
- Handle exception requests
- Clear liabilities and payments
- Perform periodic Goods Receipt / Invoice Receipt (GR/IR) account reconciliations.
- Analyze aged GR/IR balances and identify unreconciled items requiring action.
- Coordinate with Procurement, Receiving, AP, and business stakeholders for timely clearance of open GR/IR items.
- Investigate mismatches between purchase orders, goods receipts, and invoices.
- Process necessary adjustments, reversals, and corrections in accordance with accounting policies.
- Support month-end and year-end GR/IR review activities to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Monitor GR/IR KPIs and provide status reporting to management
- Identify process improvement and automation opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy.
- Independently manage complex balance clearance and write-off cases
- Drive cross-functional discussions to resolve aged items before write-off becomes necessary
- Independently manage complex MRBR cases involving intercompany transactions and high-value invoices
Settlement, reconciliation and reporting:
- Validate receivables
- Provide clarifications on receivables
- Manage due dates for receivables
- Verify the netting statements
- Co-ordinate for regulatory documentation
- Record AR settlement entry
- Record AP settlement entry
- Share the receivables statement with partners
- Prepare preliminary inter-company reconciliation
- Prepare final inter-company reconciliation
- Prepare inter-company accruals
- Verify the ICS Pack numbers are matched with ledger
Common :
- Act as the focal point of contact for other teams both within and outside the GFC
- Be the guardian of SOPs in the day to day execution of tasks by the team
- Be the guardian of controls in the process during execution of tasks by the team
- Drive root cause analysis on all critical issues / errors reported, and closure of corrective and preventive actions
- Maintain SOPs to reflect correct As-Is processes
- Train new hires in the process
- Perform knowledge transfer during integration projects
- Drive standardization and processes improvements
Actively contribute to tools and systems deployment / enhancements or other automations
All about you
We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:
- Graduate or Post-Graduate in Accounting / Finance
- Language: English (mandatory)
- 8-11 years of experience in accounting of which 4 years in P2P/O2C or R2R
- Fluency in communication in English, both written and verbal
- Team playing skills
- Ability to adhere to set guidelines
- Ability to challenge status quo
- Good understanding of accounting
- Working level skills in ERP
- Capacity to continuously adapt to a changing environment by showing a pro-active and positive approach
- Actively listen to people, encouraging feedback and sharing experiences
- Make things simple
- Focus on our goals and prioritize our actions
- Be curious and have an appetite for learning
- Work as a team and avoid silos
- Ask questions instead of making assumptions
- Show respect for others’ individuality and cultural identity
- Keep our commitments towards internal and external stakeholders (employees, customers, passengers, society)
- Comply with our code of ethics and support the use of the Alstom Alert Procedure
- Learn from your mistakes and implement corrective actions
Things you’ll enjoy Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:
- Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
- Work with new security standards for rail signaling
- Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
- Contribute to innovative projects
- Utilise our flexible and inclusive working environment
- Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
- Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
- Progress towards advanced roles in process optimization or tools management
- Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)
You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!
Important to note
As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.