Accountant, Finance Operations
Location: India, Remote
Employment Status: Regular, Full-Time
Reports To: team Lead
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Salary Range: 13,00,000 to 15,00,000 per annum
About RAP
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is an independent, mission-driven global organization working to advance a clean, reliable, and equitable energy future. Our teams work across the United States, Europe, China, India, and other markets, bringing together policy, technical, and regional expertise to address complex energy challenges.
RAP is entering an important period of organizational growth and evolution. As our global operations become increasingly interconnected, we are strengthening the systems, processes, and shared capabilities that support our work. Our Finance team plays an important role in this evolution, helping ensure strong financial stewardship while building more integrated, efficient, and scalable ways of working across our global organization.
Job Summary
The Accountant, Finance Operations is a key member of RAP's global accounting team and is responsible for the accurate and timely execution of day-to-day accounting operations supporting RAP's United States and global activities.
The position has primary responsibility for accounts payable, accounts receivable, employee expenses, payroll accounting support, transaction processing, routine general ledger activities, and account reconciliations. The Accountant will also participate in monthly close, audit preparation, grants accounting, and global reconciliation activities.
This position offers an opportunity for an accounting professional in India to develop deeper expertise in United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, nonprofit accounting, international finance, and multi-entity operations while working directly with colleagues in the United States and across RAP's global organization.
The successful candidate will be someone who does more than process transactions. We are looking for an accountant who asks questions, investigates discrepancies, understands how individual transactions affect the general ledger, and takes ownership of producing accurate financial information.
Essential Functions
Accounting and General Ledger
- Prepare routine journal entries, accruals, reclassifications, and accounting adjustments.
- Perform assigned bank, credit card, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, prepaid expense, and other balance-sheet reconciliations.
- Maintain recurring general ledger schedules.
- Review transactions for appropriate account, department, project, grant, and other financial classifications.
- Investigate reconciliation differences and resolve routine discrepancies.
- Escalate complex or unresolved reconciling items.
- Maintain complete supporting documentation and audit trails.
- Support multi-currency and cross-entity reconciliations as assigned.
Accounts Payable and Vendor Accounting
- Review vendor and contractor invoices for completeness, accuracy, approvals, and supporting documentation.
- Confirm invoices align with applicable contract terms, approved rates, milestones, payment schedules, and maximum values.
- Verify appropriate financial coding.
- Process approved accounts payable transactions.
- Maintain accurate vendor records.
- Reconcile vendor statements and investigate discrepancies.
- Support payment processing and maintain appropriate payment documentation.
- Monitor outstanding accounts payable balances.
- Identify duplicate, unusual, incorrectly coded, or potentially noncompliant transactions.
- Respond to routine vendor and contractor payment inquiries.
Accounts Receivable
- Prepare invoices and supporting billing documentation.
- Record accounts receivable transactions.
- Monitor outstanding receivables and aging.
- Apply and reconcile incoming payments.
- Support collection follow-up.
- Investigate billing and payment discrepancies.
- Maintain appropriate billing and receivable documentation.
Contract Administration
- Maintain RAP's centralized register of vendor and contractor agreements.
- Maintain complete executed agreements, amendments, extensions, approvals, and related financial documentation within designated systems.
- Track contract start and end dates, renewal dates, maximum values, payment terms, milestones, and other key administrative requirements.
- Monitor cumulative expenditures against approved contract values and flag agreements approaching financial ceilings.
- Track upcoming expirations and renewal deadlines and notify responsible business owners sufficiently in advance.
- Coordinate administrative processing of contract amendments, extensions, and renewals through established approval workflows.
- Confirm required approvals and documentation are complete before contracts move to execution or payment.
- Support collection and maintenance of required vendor and contractor tax, banking, insurance, and financial documentation, as applicable.
- Reconcile invoices and payments against contractual financial terms.
- Maintain visibility into outstanding contractual commitments and support Finance with related accruals and forecasting.
- Support contract closeout by confirming final invoices, outstanding commitments, required documentation, and financial completion.
- Prepare recurring reporting on active contracts, committed spend, actual spend, remaining balances, expirations, and renewals.
- Maintain contract-administration procedures, checklists, and controls.
- Support internal and external audit requests related to vendor, contractor, procurement, and contract documentation.
- Identify recurring contract-administration issues and recommend process improvements.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 3 years of professional accounting experience.
- Experience with accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger accounting, or a combination thereof.
- Experience preparing journal entries and account reconciliations.
- Working knowledge of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Good Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and data reconciliation.
- Nonprofit, grant, or fund accounting exposure.
- Professional fluency in written and spoken English.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote and globally distributed environment.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Sage Intacct experience.
- Payroll accounting experience.
- Multi-currency accounting experience.
- Experience working within a multinational organization, global capability center, professional services firm, or international nonprofit.
- Progress toward Chartered Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, or another relevant accounting qualification.