Finance Manager - Financial Planning/Analysis & R2R

Aim of role :

To provide financial management covering the following responsibilities :

- Leading a team of Finance analysts and finance professionals.

- Overall responsibility for the role in question includes :

1. People leadership and management.

2. Ensuring that the team deliver their objectives and responsibilities.

3. Understanding the individual roles in the team, and what is required of them.

4. Across the team ability to drive process improvements, efficiencies to deliver better or quicker information to ability to drive knowledge sharing with other teams.

- Relationship management with the Onshore team.

- Work closely with colleagues in the team in Delhi, and also the team in UK.

- Role requires strong communication skills as it involves regular interaction with the Senior Finance Team in the onshore.

- Forecasting for the business and product area, including gaining market knowledge, identifying trends in the business, identifying price changes/product launches that will allow forecasting of future results.

- Complying with Sarbox standard results.

- Maintaining adequate backup and support for month end journals and reconciliations.

- Ad-hoc work during the month for specific issues that are identified by the team. For example, further detailed and deeper analysis of results, problem identification and resolution. This is a significant part of the role.

- Identifying opportunities to add value to operation. This will include driving efficiencies in the work area to speed up and improve the quality of output, identifying and introducing new quality reports that add benefit to, working with other teams in the area to share knowledge and best practice.

Manage the monthly accounting results of the Business Unit through :

- Ensuring the integrity of the Business Unit's monthly results.

- Ensuring accurate and timely charging of both internal and external charges in order to meet the accounting deadlines and track performance.

- Ensure all trading processes are executed accurately and in a timely manner to facilitate detailed analysis.

- To assist in the validation and processing of journals as required, in an accurate and timely manner to achieve month end close.

- To maintain version control of both the journal upload template, BI JV input files, and the JV log output file.

- Manage the provision of a meaningful and timely first level analysis of daily results to help explain Business Unit financial performance and assist in subsequent identification of root cause and recommend solutions.

- Manage the provision of accurate, timely, fit for purpose information on all aspects of Business Unit financial performance through production of regular monthly customer specified reports.

- Role will involve taking part in the wider management team to train sand coach other individuals and ensure that the overall quality of work and output levels for the team improve over time.

Skills needed :

- Professional Qualification : CA/CS/CWA/ MBA

- Preferably 8+years relevant experience with a MNC, Captive units, in dealing with financial results.

- Prior experience in leading a team.

- Interpersonal skills to be able to work within a larger team.

- Straightforward, trustworthy.

- Able to work independently to resolve issues.

- Ability to work accurately to tight timeframes.

- Able to identify improvement opportunities and introduce these into the immediate work area and also across the wider team.