Senior Accountant

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading
independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across
more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences
across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news,
and more. 

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us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.

The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing
massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a
global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse
perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another.
If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.

What we do

The Trade Desk is seeking an India country specialist at the Senior Accountant
level based in Mumbai/ Gurgaon. A successful candidate will have a good
understanding of accounting principles and India’s statutory compliances and tax
requirements, be hands-on in resolving accounting reconciliation issues and able
to provide solutions drawing on past experiences. This is an individual
contributor role that will closely collaborate with other stakeholders (e.g.,
stakeholders within the organization, external third-party consultants, external
auditors, etc.). This role will be reporting to the India Accounting Manager who
is based in Singapore.

What you’ll do 

Perform India’s Statutory month-end close and year-end close tasks including but
not limited to, fixed assets accounting, statutory adjustments postings, booking
provisions and intercompany transactions, preparing accounting and tax
reconciliations, and reporting under India GAAP.

Collect, compile, verify and analyze information required for the preparation of
statutory and compliance reports, including maintaining statutory General Ledger
and Fixed assets register, preparing financial statements, workings for tax
filings, and reconciliation of amounts from tax portal.

Coordinate with third party external service providers for monthly/ quarterly/
half-yearly/ annual compliances including TDS, GST, corporate secretarial,
equity, treasury, Statutory audit, Tax audit and Internal financial control.

Collaborate with accounting operations functions, including accounts payable,
payroll and stock admin teams, to address any Statutory accounting, financial
statements disclosures and compliance queries as a country-level specialist.

Participate in cross-functional projects that require local implementation and
other improvement initiatives that require collaboration and problem solving at
both individual and team level.

Take on duties in finance-related process and reporting enhancement projects
with the goal of promoting efficiency.

Build network across a variety of functions and with third party finance vendors
to exchange ideas know-hows to formulate solutions to accounting and compliance
issues.

Support ad-hoc requests and tasks, as required.

Who you are

6+ years of progressive experience in accounting, tax and compliance at an
Accounting Advisory firm, similar role at start-up and/ or technology, media
company.

Knowledge and application of India GAAP/Indian Accounting Standards, local tax
and compliance regulations.

US GAAP and Previous Big 4 work experience is a plus.

Professional qualification- Chartered Accountant/ CPA.

Skilled Oracle or ERP system user, proficient in excel, with experience in
working with more technical/data driven tools.

Detail-oriented self-starter with a strong sense of ownership, ability to work
independently and see tasks/projects through to completion, meet deadlines, with
little to no supervision.

Able to take action under guidance, manage diverse and conflicting priorities,
take feedback positively with willingness to improve.

Highly collaborative with good interpersonal skills and enjoy partnering with
others to seek out opportunities to improve process and efficiencies across the
organization.

Analytically driven with the ability to present information accurately through
writing, presentations and spreadsheets.

Effective communicator who is able to adapt to different communication styles in
a variety of settings with different stakeholders and provide timely and helpful
information to others across the organization.

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age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical
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inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

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