Manager - Finance - Business Consulting Firm

Manager - Finance - Business Consulting Firm

About the Role:

The Finance Manager for India would be based out of Mumbai and would manage fast growing team of Billing and Finance professionals in India.

Key Responsibilities:

Functional Responsibilities

- Manage the billing and collections process, ensuring timeliness and accuracy.

- Manage a team of billing specialists, providing necessary guidance and support.

- Strategize, develop and implement billing policies and procedures to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

- Monitor accounts receivable and coordinate with partners to resolve any payment issues.

- Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to ensure alignment of billing and collections with overall business objectives.

- Prepare regular reports and analyze billing and collections performance, including forecasting

- Implement industry best practices related to billing and collections

- Identify opportunities and lead/collaborate on technology initiatives

Team Responsibilities:

- Providing leadership and developing a high performing, engaged billing and finance team

- Drive activities related to staffing, including recruitment, on-boarding, skill-gap analysis, organizing training programs

- Responsible for team growth, development, engagement and escalation management

- Responsible for recruitment, training and performance assessment of the team

- Leading the India Finance team and reporting into the India Operations Director with functional reporting to Finance Director.

- Monitoring all key metrics to ensure optimum utilization and productivity of team members

Skillsets/ Experience Needed: 8 to 10 years of experience in Finance, with at least 7 years of in depth experience in a Billing / Accounts Receivables Function.

Key responsibilities would include:

- Oversight of global billing teams

- Lead the delivery of billing processes through the application of Six Sigma tools

- Excellent knowledge of mathematics, accounting, and finance principles

- Excellent communication skills

- Strong attention to detail

- Exceptional organizational, reporting and analytical skills Ability to perform in high pressure situations and ability to multi task.

Qualifications Required: CA or MBA Finance from a Tier I or Tier II School

- Should have managed large teams (at least 10 to 15 member Teams)

- SAP knowledge preferred

- Six Sigma certification preferred.

Must-Haves :

- 8 to 10 yrs of strong Accounts Receivables experience

- MBA Finance from a good college : Should be a Tenured Manager (i.e. already working as a manager)

- Should have managed team size of 10 to 15+ people.

- Prior experience in actively mentoring & developing people (This is a significant part of the candidate's responsibility)

- Very good Interpersonal & communication skills.