Chief Finance Officer - Agri Business

Key Responsibilities :

- The selected candidate will provide overall strategic leadership and play a key role in improving the Company's financial management capability, with the priority objective of supporting strategic growth plan of the organization.

- S/he has to ensure that various initiatives pertaining to financial planning, budgeting, cost accounting, cash flow management, tax planning, FTA, GST, etc. are carried out in the organization conforming to the underlying corporate policies and procedures. These should be compatible with local regulatory guidelines & international standards; and any difference between two is reconciled regularly.

- S/he is responsible for monitoring, reporting and forecasting business financials viz volumes, revenue, EBITDA, ROCE, BEP by analyzing budget assumptions v/s actual trends for discussion/ debate to senior management and to take timely corrective actions/ plans to achieve the objectives. S/he has to ensure timely & robust MIS to the management with suggestive comments on operations and cost optimization for achieving budgeted parameters and releasing alerts & exception reporting, thereby enabling appropriate and timely decision making.

- S/he will be responsible for Capex and Working Capital Management & fund management. Arranging for funds at competitive rates from banks.

- S/he should develop and ensure implementation of effective solutions leading to optimum cost of capital to ensure expected profitability of the organization. S/he will be responsible to put in place limits of authority in Capex and Operational expenditure. Should ensure controls of costs within budgets and planned expenditure - element of Controllership.

- S/he should improve financial and business controls including ICFR, etc.

- S/he is responsible to drive enterprise risk management process and manage corporate governance process for the Agri sector

- S/he is expected to manage and oversee statutory compliance and audit and ensure the timely and accurate filings of all the required statutory and tax reporting.

- S/he is expected to effectively interface with Corporate Finance, Corporate taxation, legal and secretarial departments of Company's Group on the key accounting and treasury issues.

- S/he is expected to understand ever evolving expectations and requirements of internal and external auditors and based on the same facilitate development and implementation of a robust information management system to cater to all data needs.

- S/he will develop improving knowledge and skills of accounts & finance department; focus on improving performance through effective team/program management, training and development; and help build an environment that continues to promote and reward excellence both at individual and team levels.

Requirements :

Education :

- Ideal candidates would have qualification of Chartered Accountant (CA)/ CA plus MBA in Finance is preferred qualification.

Functional Knowledge / Skills / Experience :

- Strong experience of 15-20 years + in business finance, preferably one stint in Agri input / Agri output industry.

- Currently active in a senior or similar financial management position at a reputed organization with multiple businesses.