Position: Manager - Financial Reporting & Compliance

Company: Confidential - Leading Consumer Beauty & Lifestyle Platform

Location: Lower Parel, Mumbai

Reporting To: Finance Leadership

About the Company:

Our client is one of India's leading consumer-focused beauty and lifestyle platforms, recognised for its scale, fast-paced operating environment, and strong governance and reporting standards as a listed entity. The Finance function is central to the business, and this role sits at the heart of legal entity reporting, compliance, and ongoing process transformation, including a Mega ERP initiative. The identity of the company is being kept confidential at this stage of the search and will be shared with shortlisted candidates.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a qualified Chartered Accountant to join as Manager - Financial Reporting, an individual contributor role responsible for the finalization of legal entity financials across the group on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. The role calls for strong hands-on experience in financial reporting, MIS, and compliance, ideally built within a consumer-facing organisation of similar scale and complexity. The incumbent will work closely with Treasury, Tax, HR & Admin, and Statutory Auditors, and will play an active role in driving the company's ongoing ERP transformation and broader process improvement agenda.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Monthly Financial Reporting & Compliance:

- Preparation and finalization of 7 to 8 legal entity financials on a monthly basis (excluding International entities for now)

- Review of Balance Sheet post release of MIS, identifying areas for improvement in working capital and asset management

- Broad review of G&A at the legal entity level

- Monitoring of debt covenants basis the monthly financial statements

- Ind AS adjustment workings and entries

- ICFR documentation for the FSCP process (financial statement preparation and finalization)

- Supporting Treasury and Tax teams on inputs for reconciliations / statement submissions

2. Quarterly & Annual Finalization:

- Preparation and finalization of 12 financials annually, along with Cash Flow Statements and Notes to Accounts

- Analytical review at the legal entity level

- Preparing analytical review CAS for statutory auditors

- Preparation of CAS for Ind AS adjustments; collaborating with auditors on these adjustments and related HR schedules (Leave, Gratuity, etc.)

- ICFR documentation for the FSCP process

- Review of Balance Sheet reclassification entries

- Preparation of the AC Deck for financials

- Review of Balance Sheet and identification of areas for improvement in working capital and asset management

- Monitoring of debt covenants basis the financial statements

- Supporting Treasury and Tax teams on inputs for reconciliations / statement submissions

- Providing inputs for ESG reporting

3. Business Partnering & Process Transformation:

- Acting as Finance Business Partner to HR & Admin functions, tracking related costs and supporting HR & Admin finance partnering

- Actively driving the Mega ERP project and other process improvement / automation initiatives

- Rationalization and standardization of the Chart of Accounts

- Preparation of accounting policies, memos, etc.

4. Governance & Compliance:

- Ensuring due support for LODR-related filings and compliances

- Tracking and ensuring compliances including RPTs, XBRL filings, etc.

- Fixed Asset Management

Ideal Candidate Profile:

Experience & Qualifications:

- Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) - mandatory

- 5 to 8 years of post-qualification experience in financial reporting, MIS, and compliance

- Prior experience in a consumer-facing business or a company of similar scale/structure preferred

- Working knowledge of SAP is important

- Strong understanding of Ind AS and statutory financial reporting requirements

- Experience with ICFR / FSCP processes and coordination with statutory auditors

- Prior involvement in ERP implementation or process improvement projects is an advantage

Key Competencies:

- Strong ownership and accountability for legal entity reporting timelines and accuracy

- Sound technical grounding in Ind AS and financial statement finalization

- Effective stakeholder management - Treasury, Tax, HR, and Statutory Auditors

- Process orientation - comfortable driving standardization and automation initiatives

- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, listed-entity compliance environment

- Willingness to work 5 days a week from the Lower Parel, Mumbai office