Senior Accountant (India)
Vercel
Remote - IndiaremotePosted 19 days ago
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Key highlights
- 6 + years of accounting experience required.
- CA (Final) qualification required.
- NetSuite experience strongly preferred.
- Fully remote role based in India.
- Work on AI‑led automation projects in finance.
- Join the Finance Center of Excellence for a leading web infrastructure company.
Role overview
Vercel is building a Finance Center of Excellence in India and is hiring a Senior Accountant as a foundational remote team member. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Accounting, the role will own day-to‑to‑day accounting operations for Vercel’s international entities, ensuring accurate, audit‑ready records and helping build scalable finance infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Own the day‑to‑day bookkeeping and general ledger maintenance for the international entities in NetSuite, ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately and on time.
- Prepare and post monthly journal entries including accruals, prepayments, payroll, and intercompany recharges.
- Perform monthly account reconciliations across all balance sheet accounts and resolve open items in a timely manner.
- Closely work with accounts payables and accounts receivables team to ensure accurate accounting treatment. Support in the preparation of data for tax returns of international entities for both direct and indirect taxes and coordinate with the external consultants.
- Process accounts payable (AP) and employee travel and expense (T&E) reimbursements, ensuring timely payments, policy compliance, accurate coding, and proper supporting documentation.
- Assist with WHT calculations, deductions, and timely deposits; prepare monthly / quarterly returns in coordination with the tax team and advisors.
- Work closely with external consultants in preparation of Financial Statements and other compliance with various authorities for international entities.
- Reconcile payroll processor output to NetSuite monthly and flag discrepancies for resolution. Create and reconcile monthly payroll journal entries for the international entities.
- Prepare supporting schedules and documentation for the annual statutory audit and coordinate with auditors on open items.
- Assist the Senior Accounting Manager on the monthly and quarterly close, meeting deadlines and flagging issues proactively.
- Support process improvement initiatives — identify manual steps that can be automated and bring ideas to the team.
- Prepare monthly flux analysis, balance sheet, and statutory‑to‑US GAAP reporting schedules for international entities, including timely investigation and closure of reconciling items.
- Own and maintain key accounting schedules such as accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, leases, provisions, intercompany balances, bank reconciliations, and FX revaluation support.
- Identify opportunities for AI‑led automation across reconciliations, recurring journals, close checklists, reporting schedules, and audit support, and help build AI agents for high‑impact accounting use cases.
Requirements
- Minimum 6 + years of accounting experience, with at least 4 years in a hands‑on role at a multinational company or a Big 4 / mid‑tier CA firm.
- CA (Final) qualification.
- Solid working knowledge of statutory compliance in different countries, including indirect and direct tax returns.
- Familiarity with IFRS, US GAAP, IndAS, and other local accounting standards as applied to a technology company.
- Hands‑on experience with an ERP system.
- Advanced Excel skills; comfortable building and maintaining reconciliation templates, schedules, and close trackers.
- Detail‑oriented and well‑organized, with a track record of meeting close deadlines and maintaining clean, auditable workpapers.
- Collaborative team player who communicates clearly and proactively, especially in a remote, async‑first environment.
- Curious, process‑minded, and improvement‑focused professional who proactively identifies inefficiencies and leverages AI, automation, and systems to improve accuracy and efficiency; a clear and confident communicator who collaborates effectively across remote, cross‑functional, and cross‑cultural teams while thriving in async‑first environments with strong ownership, accountability, and self‑direction.
Nice to have
- CPA or equivalent international qualification (plus).
- NetSuite experience (strongly preferred).
- Experience building AI agents or AI‑led automation for accounting processes.
Benefits
- Fully remote work from your home office in India, with overlapping hours for global finance collaboration.
- Inclusive community and equal‑opportunity employment policy.
- Opportunity to shape the Finance Center of Excellence for a high‑growth technology company used by leading firms like OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, and Supreme.
- Work on cutting‑edge AI‑driven finance automation initiatives.
Additional details
- About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, building products like Next.js, v0, and AI SDK, trusted by companies such as OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
- Vercel is building the platform for a future where software agents will build, extend, and operate products.
- The role reports to the Senior Manager of Accounting and is a foundational hire on the Finance Center of Excellence team.
- Vercel does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic and encourages all candidates to apply even if they don’t meet every listed requirement.