Chief Financial Officer - CA - IT

Discipline: Accounting

Subsector: Finance Managers, Controllers & Directors

Location: Mumbai

About our Client:

Softline is a multinational global IT (information technology) service and solution provider operating in different markets all around the world including Russia and CIS, Latin America, India and Asia. The group offers services including end-to-end technology solutions, software licensing, hardware products and services. They have a strong cloud offering powered by their own cloud platform. Softline had revenue of around $1 billion USD in 2013 FY and CAGR 40% sales growth in the last 10 years. Softline operates in 27 countries, and in 79 cities worldwide, employing over 3000 employees globally. With strong growth plans in the APAC region, they are looking for a CFO for their business in India.

Job Description:

Reporting into the MD India, your responsibilities will include:

- Supporting the country manager in conducting weekly reviews of business categories, understanding results, and the relationship of those results to the key customer facing inputs (pricing, selection, convenience)

- Work with commercial leaders to drive improved performance

- Ensures business decisions endure processes that drive robust financial challenge and accountability

- Developing forecasts for business accurately (and in detail) modeling core business drivers;

- Driving the annual planning sessions that include a strategic discussion of the results and immediate forecast, and the long-term road map for future years;

- Conducting periodic reviews of financial results, understanding key variances to plan, and orchestrating the path to corrective action with key stakeholders;

- Creating high quality management reporting to facilitate the communication of numbers and results including vendor scorecards, price trends and other metrics critical to keeping the business on track with planned results;

- Apart from the above: you will be responsible for managing the entire Accounts & Finance domain, wiz.- Corporate Accounting, Financial Planning, MIS, Audit, Taxation (Direct, Indirect, Transfer Pricing & International Tax), Treasury and Secretarial.

The Successful Candidate:

- You are a Chartered Accountant with a minimum of 15-20 years of work experience.

- Experience in setting up operations in a start up environment with an MNC company is essential for this role.

- You should have at least 7 years of experience in positions of Senior Financial Director or Controller roles in Multinational environments in IT / ITeS sector only.

- The incumbent should possess strong knowledge in IFRS & IGAAP.

- You have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with multiple management levels of the organization. With strong business acumen, you are looking forward to take on the next challenge in your career.

- You possess good communication skills with excellent command over English (verbally and written) and local language (Hindi / Marathi).

- You come with a good business understanding and experience of working in a multinational matrix organization.

What's on Offer: Strategic Role

- Work with Top Management

- Start up Opportunity

- Attractive Package

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