Head - Finance & Accounts - Manufacturing

Our client is the most sought after traditional Indian outfit manufacturing and exporting company. Their contemporary and stylishly designed clothes are full of unique patterns, matchless embroidery, gorgeous mirror-work and beautiful block prints.

Almost a decade old, it is a venture committed to bring together a varied range of traditional crafts and techniques of dyeing, weaving, printing and hand embroidery. The founders have dedicated their life to promote Indian Block Prints and provide employment and Hand-Embroidery training to women so that numerous underprivileged women can be empowered.

As a Head - Finance and Accounts (F&A), you will be responsible for conceiving, executing and leveraging financial and legal strategies that enable business results in accordance with the near-term as well as long term business plans of the company. The Head F&A would play an important role in supporting the company to be cost-competitive, financially dynamic and progressive in accordance with the changing business environment and competitive landscape.

What you will do :

- Creating a climate of fiscal responsibility that will enable the company to remain fiercely competitive

- Providing effective leadership in developing strong governance around Company Finances and compliance

- Creating a strong internal financial control environment

- Creating and maintaining an efficient and effective financial system to provide financial analysis and reporting

- Overseeing all operational aspects related to finance, P&L and legal aspects of the business

- Maintaining healthy accounting ratios for the company such as current ratios, asset turnover ratio, healthy gross/net margins, debt/equity ratio etc.

- Ensuring statutory legal/ regulatory compliance related to Finance and Accounts (taxation/ GST/ ROC / PF/ Import Export Documentation)

- Overseeing compliance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and all other applicable statutes

- Framing financial and accounting policies/processes and promoting financial discipline in all actions/decisions of the company through creation and awareness of frameworks and ensuring adherence

- Automating processes/ systems as appropriate

- Analyzing current business performance and suggesting alternate business/ financial models to enhance ROI and ROCE

- Providing the strategic direction to enhance financial performance

- Drawing up budgets, instituting budgetary controls, driving the finance strategy and its consequent deployment

- Contributing as a member of the leadership team to the business decisions of the company, specially ensuring financial viability of all decisions

- Advising and raising funds from the most viable avenues and making investments on behalf the company

- Ensuring holistic risk mitigation for the company and its employees by ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and deploying adequate and viable insurance policies

- Acting as the company representative for auditors, vendors, legal/statutory authorities

- Managing the overall accounting function: accounting practices/ polices/processes- such as vendor payments, payroll processing, customer refunds, auditing of financial statements etc.

- Motivating, guiding, training and developing his/her team and integrating the finance & accounting function

Desired Candidate Profile :

What you must have :

- CA or equivalent MBA(Finance) with 10 years of relevant experience

- Superb analytical capabilities

- Understanding of Tech

- Deep understanding of changing marketing dynamics

- Leadership attributes

- Good negotiation skills