Plant Finance Manager

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Responsible for overall financial operations at the factory including invoicing, AR, AP, General Accounting,.

- Product Costing, Inventory Valuation & Controls, MIS & reporting etc.

- Ensuring timely & correct vendor invoice(s) booking and payments, PO approvals etc.

- Ensuring timely and correct invoicing, GRN movements, E-way bills preparation.

- Preparation and monitoring of relevant financial operations KPI and driving improvement thereof.

- Finance business partner to Plant Head and Plant cross functional team.

- Responsible for month-end financial closing and preparation of necessary financial schedules, workings, provisions etc.

- Preparation of Plant P&L and other MIS reports, as may be required by the management from time to time.

- Responsible for implementation and streamlining of various financial and operational processes & controls at the plant.

- Strong knowledge of inventory management, product costing and inventory valuation in line with the prescribed costing and accounting guidelines.

- Responsible for financial hygiene of the books.

- Preparation of Balance Sheet schedules monthly and ensuring no overdue issues & accounting challenges.

- Weekly review of advance balance, monthly review & reconciliation of accounts payable balances.

- Identifying and addressing the irregularities promptly.

- Ensuring budgetary controls at the plant level.

- Strong knowledge of taxation - both direct and indirect.

- Ensuring timely compliances and tax management.

- Experience of handling stock audits, internal & statutory audits.

- Custodian for financial & other critical documents at the factory.

- Ensuring data repository management.

- Responsible for driving automation and simplification across various financial and operational processes.

Skills and Knowledge:.

- Strong experience in plant financial operations.

- Proficiency in SAP or other ERP system is highly desirable.

- Strong analytical skills with a keen attention to details.

- Excellent stakeholder management and cross functional collaboration & communication skills.

- High proficiency in MS office and MS Excel.

- Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to a changing, fast-paced environment.