Head - Accounts & Finance - CA - eCommerce

Client: An e-commerce company with a gradually developing offline presence dealing in a luxury good product.It is a market leader in its category with a unique product offering unmatched by competition.

Job title : Head-Accounts and Finance

Reports to : CEO

Location : Bangalore (HO)

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Defines the accounting policy of the company and assists in contributing towards corporate planning by providing the status of company accounts to Top Management.

- Provides information support to the Management for decision making in areas such as creditors control, debtors control, income and expenses, profits etc.

- Supervises the consolidation of financial performance of the company through timely and accurate reports prepared by the Accounts team.

- Supervises all basic accounting activities such as bill passing, reconciliation, preparation of vouchers, making book keeping entries into the respective ledgers, monitoring creditors and debtors control, cash flow (based on expected collections and payments to be made) and taking action for meeting shortfalls, supervising the bank reconciliation statements as well as calculation of interest lost on surplus funds.

- Supervises the preparation of monthly, half-yearly and annual accounts statements through providing inputs to subordinates and interfacing with the auditors to provide any information required.

- Prepares P/L Account, Trial Balance and Balance Sheet of the organization.

- Monitors the overall working of the Accounts Department such as release of payments to creditors, obtaining payments from debtors, maintaining bill wise pending lists on a monthly basis overseeing creditor's reconciliation, documentation with respect to ongoing legal matters as well as ensuring correct invoicing.

- Ensures timely payments to suppliers and vendors and to staff.

- Analyzes MIS reports, financials (such as quick look statements on cash flow, funds flow, profit and loss and financial aspects of balance sheet) on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis and suggests remedial measures for improving the statistics to the management.

- Co-ordinates with all auditors Like Statutory, Internal Auditors PF, ESI commissioner & Cost Audits, Excise Auditors.

- Coordinates with external with external people like Auditors, Government Agencies, departments etc as per requirement.

- Ensures preparation of accounting statements on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis for the board meeting.

- Ensures that all processes with respect to banking, bank reconciliation, payroll, payments for trading activities and rent payments etc are as per laid down guidelines and within the budgetary controls.

- Assists in final accounts audit on a regular basis.

- Defines responsibilities to the various members of the department and ensuring the same gets completed well in time as well as manage the team.

- Coordinates with other functional department for the smooth functioning of the system.

Required Qualifications and Experience :

- CA with 5+ years experience in manufacturing/FMCG/Luxury Goods sectors

- Ability to manage entire day-to- day accounts for the company. Key areas are VAT, PT, TDS, Service Tax, Cash/Bank reconciliation and all other accounting related activities.

- The environment is fast paced and selected candidate will be working directly with the founding team and hence can expect a steep learning curve.