Chief Finance Officer - CA - FMCG/Food Manufacturing

Looking for a CA for a FMCG/ Food manufacturing company.

Job Requirements :

Merger & Acquisitions :

Cash flow management :

- Support operations on cost optimization and buying team on vendor partnerships

- Ensure working capital management

- Exposure to fund raising

- Work with corporate treasury

- Monitor bidding process for assets and approval of capex as per budgets

Business Plan projections and budgeting :

- Ability to take a contrarian view to the CEO and ensure the right fiscal decisions are taken

- Budgeting top down and bottom up and stretch wherever there is opportunity

- Communicate monthly sales targets along with operational metrics

- Publish monthly P&L statements

Commercial deliverables and control :

- Ensure adherence to commercial processes, taxation etc.

- Provide ERP and system related support, detect errors and excess order

- Overall cost control within budget / cost optimization / operations expenses control

- Align every expenditure till it gets accounted

Financial reporting :

- Provide daily/weekly/monthly/fortnightly sales report and budget Vs actual

- Responsible for accounting and financial systems, 100% statutory compliance and timely, adequate controls and accurate book keeping

- Prepare structured reporting for the board

- Monitor the preparation and maintenance of ledgers

Statutory compliance :

- Coordinate with internal & external departments, statutory bodies, government departments and ensure registrations and compliance are in place

- Ensure accurate statutory reporting to relevant authorities, as per GAAP and related regulatory guidelines

- Keep track of all types of filling including TDS, service tax, and VAT payments

- Analyse market potential and enable decision making from financial perspective

Taxation :

- Develop appropriate processes to reduce tax burden

- Monitor compliance with statutory authorities for taxation