Corporate Finance Role - FMCG

Corporate Finance

Your Role:

- The person will lead the Corporate and Controllership agenda. The person will oversee all Accounting and reporting activities from Indian Gaap and IndAs perspectives.

- This role will ensure completeness of month end accounting procedures like accruals, recording of treasury/banking activities, balancing of Inter Company (IC) transactions across entities, accounting and reserves, validating completion of third party clearing accounts with the intent to make sure our financial positions at end of the month is complete. The role actively partners with Finance leadership.

- Drive coordination across the various accounting functions: AP, AR, cash and treasury management, IC and General Accounting.

- Review monthly reconciliation of general ledger accounts including bank reconciliations.

- Identify synergies between Cash, IC, AP and AR processes and implement best practice.

- Lead "closing" of financial records on a monthly basis and in a timely manner.

- Establish regular (Fortnightly/Monthly/Quarterly) connects with Leadership.

- Lead monthly governance calls with Senior leadership to highlight any significant month-close issues.

- Advise on new or changed accounting principles and practices that impact Accounting.

- Act as a subject matter expert. Develop and maintain templates and schedules that will be used by the Senior Management Team for review and analysis.

- Assist Team members in resolving issues or difficulties in their work performance and knowing when issues should be escalated.

- Periodically review and edit documented work procedures and responsibility grids to ensure they accurately reflect work being done. Suggest updates to department policies to reflect actual practices (Health Tracker, Account Reconciliation, Self-Assessment policies).

- Assist with the selection and hiring process of accountants and managers for the Accounting team.

- Maintain deep knowledge of team functions and ensure all team members are adequately trained to effectively and efficiently perform their assigned tasks.