Senior Vice President - Finance

Description:

- Develop and execute the shared services strategy for Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR).

- Overall, in-charge of all processes AP, AR, bank reconciliation, fixed assets capitalisation etc.

- Analyse costs along with cost management team and provide meaningful insights on cost control measures

- Ensuring complete documentation support for all payments processed & strong vendor on-boarding & regular vendor evaluation process.

- Ensuring compliance with Delegated Authorities & continuous monitoring.

- Working with Resources team and Banks on various bank signatory related activities.

- Ensure along with Tax team various indirect tax requirements.

- Ensuring payments are processes correctly and in timely manner.

- Ensuring documentation support (agreements, proof of service delivery) for all incomes booked including checking from regulatory perspective

- Continuous follow up for debtors, advances, employee advances etc

- Ensure adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and continuous improvement of processes

- Manage external and internal audit requirements related to AP/AR activities (Statutory, Internal etc.)

- Focused approach on bringing operational efficiencies

- Champion automation and digital tools (RPA, AI, OCR, ERP enhancements) to streamline AP/AR processes

- Ensuring adequate control over fixed assets

- Ensuring bank reconciliations are performed daily and entries are accounted in a timely manner

- Publish various reports on regular & adhoc-basis

- Drive transformation initiatives, including process standardization, automation, and digitalization

- Finance professional (MBA Finance, M.com, CA, ICWA etc.)

Experience: Min 15 years

Functional Competencies:

- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, and company policies

- Strong process orientation

- Cost consciousness

- Serve as the primary point of escalation for AP/AR-related matters

Behavioral Competencies:

- Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing finance operations team.

- Partner with senior leadership, business units, and corporate functions to align shared services objectives with organizational goals

- Excellent communications skills (both written and spoken)

- Analytical ability and presentation skills

- Go-getter, meticulous, achievement oriented, dependable, willing to stretch and learn

- Customer centricity