Manager - Finance Operations

- Drive end-to-end Payables, Receivables, and Vendor Management, ensuring alignment with the cash flow strategy by monitoring AP cycles, DPOs, and aging schedules in coordination with merchandising and operations teams.

- Lead working capital and cash flow management, overseeing banking operations, forex dealings, and liquidity planning, while implementing strategies to optimize AP, AR, and inventory funding cycles.

- Streamline finance operations by automating and digitizing payables and receivables processes; analyze financial tools and systems, identify process gaps, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to build robust financial capabilities.

- Manage vendor relationships, including regular scrutiny of ledgers, reconciliation of invoices against shipments, escalation of pricing or margin deviations, enforcement of SLAs, and negotiation of extended payment terms through vendor financing.

- Oversee all business-related payments such as marketing, utilities, warehouse manpower, reimbursements, rentals, and admin expenses, ensuring timely disbursement, accuracy, and identification of anomalies or expense spikes.

- Handle GST reconciliations between internal systems and vendor filings on the GST portal; manage import compliance by tracking foreign remittances and ensuring timely settlement of BOEs.