Head - Finance & Accounts - Manufacturing Firm - CA

Head - Finance & Accounts - Manufacturing - CA (20-22yrs) - Mumbai

The position heads Finance, Accounts and Taxation. S/he is responsible for ensuring compliance of all the above functions to meet corporate guidelines and adhere to all external compliance requirements of the Government, Auditors and lending agencies.

S/he is responsible for:

1. Provide support to the Board of Directors and shareholders as needed.

2. Plans, develops, organizes, implements directs and evaluates the Company's fiscal functions from every relevant perspective.

3. Manage treasury, finance, accounting and compliance functions with the necessary processes and internal controls to safeguard the Company assets.

4. Coordinate the preparation of financial statements, financial reports, special analyses and information reports.

5. Serve on planning and policy-making committees.

6. Team handling experience mandatory. The role will handle a team of Accounts and Finance personnel.

Perspective Responsibilities:

Strategic:

1) To support the Organization in developing finance organization strategy around corporate finance, finance operations and risk management

2) To implement all strategic decision of the Board

3) Risk evaluation and commercial viability evaluations

4) Strategic partner to the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer and translate the overall corporate strategy into financial and business plans and projections

5) Resource Allocation

Internal Process/ Operations :

1) To prepare for board approval regarding budgets, periodical reviews and operational performance.

2) To monitor quality and standardization of Financial statements.

3) To satisfy the audit requirements with regards to the observations by Auditors.

4) To standardize cost control measures across portfolio SPVs.

5) Set corporate guidelines for authorization limits.

6) Review and monitor project budgets. Report budgetary performance as required.

(7) Coordinate with all functional heads for the speedy resolution of all financial issues

(8) Monitor tax planning and compliance (both direct & Indirect tax)

(9) Taking care of all manufacturing locations from a financial stand point and ensuring that costs incurred are rationalized. This also extends to optimizing the entire supply chain & procurement cycle for the firm

(10) GST Management

(11) Handle technical accounting issues & related compliances

(12) Ownership of Chart of Accounts

(13) Ownership of customer/Vendor and other Masters in ERP

(14) To ensure overall monitoring of various accounts like - General accounts - Purchase accounts - Sales accounts

(15) To ensure timely finalization, consolidation and closing of monthly, quarterly, half yearly and Yearly accounts as per the accounting / statutory requirements

(16) Working out viability studies of all Projects and means of financing for projects

Learning and Development:

1. To keep abreast of all current developments in business and functional aspects and knowledge transfer to the team

2. To groom the team and develop successor.

3. To upgrade the skills of the team by providing learning opportunities.

4. To educate the cross- functional teams on certain key topics relevant to the business

Qualification and technical skills required :

- Successful candidate should be a chartered Accountant with between 15 to 20 years of experience most of which will be ideally coming in from manufacturing intensive organizations (preferably Edible Oil Industry).

- Previous working experience as Head Accounts/Business Finance Head for at least 3 years

- Should have a strong track record of maintaining internal controls & compliance as well as mitigating risks & fraud.

- Should have Hands-on experience with Financial Management Software and SAP. You will also be a strong business partner coming with result backed achievements in terms of enhancing top lines of firms that you have worked with.

- Should have excellent knowledge of Excel

- Should have thorough knowledge and experience of working in ERP system, ownership of accounting processes.

- Should have Good communication and interpersonal relationship skills.

- Should have Leadership Skills ,Eye for details. ,Negotiating skills

- Should have Handled conflicts ,Delegation ,Team Building ,Analytical skills ,People management skills ,Presentation skills ,Communication skills ,Networking skills

- Should have excellent time-management and organizational skills