Leaders' Quest - Manager - Finance - CA

Leader's Quest is seeking to hire a dynamic finance enthusiast with experience working in a rapidly growing, hands-on, start-up environment.

About Leaders- Quest

Leaders- Quest is a social enterprise, committed to improving the quality and impact of leaders around the world. They deliver unique experiential programmes where they ask tough questions about business, society and individual leadership, and explore answers with people from all walks of life.

What's on offer:

Exciting opportunity to work in an international, flexible environment that offers learning with senior leaders across the most influential organizations across different sectors. This role primarily involves working within a five-person global team, this position will offer the right individual exposure to a broad range of responsibilities, and an exciting career path to be part of a Global Finance Team. This role includes international travel and no working weekends.

Job Responsibilities:

- Oversee LQ India company accounts, including regular monthly management accounts and Annual Accounts preparation.

- Key role in overseeing Accounts Payable and Receivable functions for the LQ Global Team.

- Supervise and manage the finance assistant and maintain good working relationships with the LQ India Team and LQ Global Finance Team.

- Provide leadership of Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger and Cashier functions, developing Finance Manager JD Leaders- Quest 2017 2 the team to deliver excellent performance.

- Develop highly efficient financial systems and processes, integrating with wider management information systems as appropriate - including internal control processes and an internal audit.

- Be the primary liaison with external agencies, such as banks, auditors, system providers and other third-party advisors, including tax authorities.

- Liaise with our Salesforce lead and suggest updates and improvements for accounting systems and integration with other systems.

- Ensure that all financial transactions are properly recorded, filed, and reported

- Establish and implement financial reporting systems to comply with government regulations and legislation.

- Regularly review all financial plans and budgets to look for cost reduction opportunities.

- Carry out any other reasonable tasks that may arise from time to time.

Does this sound like you?

Must haves:

- A qualified Chartered Accountant or Bachelor's/ master's degree in accounting, business, economics, finance, or a related field.

- Strong knowledge of statutory compliances and any other India specific regulations.

- Experience working in small, medium-sized firms so they have experience across the end to end projects (as opposed to parts of the financial function).

- Should be comfortable working as an individual contributor with little to no guidance-.

- Good communication skills - written and verbal.

Strongly preferred:

- Experience across multiple platforms, in addition to Tally-. Previous experience with Netsuite is a plus.

- Previous experience with line or team management experience

- Experience working with multiple currencies.