ixigo - Head - Business Finance - CA

Position: Head - Business Finance (Bus Division)

Business Unit: Abhibus

Location: Hyderabad

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Management and Leadership:

- Build and lead a high-performing finance team, fostering a collaborative and results driven culture.

- Provide mentorship and guidance to team members, promoting professional development.

- Bring discipline and adopt processes as required to ensure a strong finance function as aligned with the Group.

- Ensure timely closure of books with accuracy (Monthly, Quarterly, Annually)

Financial Reporting, Accounting, and Internal Controls:

- Lead the preparation of periodical MIS adhering to the timelines with accuracy.

- Lead annual budgeting and ad-hoc based reporting.

- Play a key role in liaising with all auditors and getting the audits closed within time with clean reporting.

- Managing the entire spectrum of finance including Accounting, Treasury, Taxation, Capex, OPEX, AP, AR, partner reconciliations, payroll etc.

- Keeping a tighter control on the cash flows of the company.

- Ensuring all Finops recons are completed well within time and accounted for with accuracy.

- Automating the Finops and accounting areas wherever possible.

- Developing and implementing internal controls to mitigate the risks involved.

- Ensure proper management of ERP and hygiene of data recorded in ERP for better reporting and control.

Tax and Compliance:

- Manage all taxation and compliance activities without any non-compliance.

- Ensuring timely deposit of tax and filing of returns with regulators.

- Ensure that the changes in tax laws are properly communicated to cross functional stakeholders and get the development done in accordance with relevant legislation.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

- Support business from a financial viewpoint including profitability analysis, margin profiling and other financial analytics needs.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure financial objectives are aligned with overall business goals.

- Ensuring the contracts getting executed are in agreement with prevailing laws and regulations including tax laws.

Ideal Candidate:

- Seasoned Finance professional (Preferably a Chartered accountant) with 7-10 years of experience of leading finance functions in a high growth environment.

- Should possess influential communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills.

- Good working knowledge of Indian accounting standards and Indian taxation, statutory and management reporting is critical to this position.

- Should have the ability to influence and encourage team synergy, sensitively managing diverse teams as well as multiple internal and external stakeholders.

- Must possess a solution oriented and ambitious attitude.

- Strong Business and commercial acumen.

- Analytical and Problem Solving.