ShareChat - Lead - Finance

Who are we, and What do we do?

From the humble idea of giving all regional languages a stage to successfully building India's No.1 social media platform, we've journeyed to turn ideas into reality. At ShareChat and Moj, our short video platform (https://sharechat.com/about), we have over 325 million users, 80 million creators, and over 2.5 billion shares every month. Valued at $5 billion, ours is a story of disrupting the digital narrative as we build Bharat's content creation ecosystem.

An open, honest culture and our values, such as first principles, speed, integrity, user-centricity, and ownership, drive our teams to innovate our products every day. We are on the path to establishing ShareChat as the world's largest AI-centered social media platform. We are thrilled to offer you the opportunity to solve complex problems at scale, learn with the best minds, pursue unstoppable growth, and, most importantly, make a far-reaching impact.

Join us to revolutionize Bharat's content creation ecosystem powered by AI & ML. Scaling ideas to reality is how we do our business!

What does the team do?

The Procure to Pay team is responsible for all aspects - process, governance, efficiency, automation - for the Procurement to Payment cycle. The team works with cross functional teams to create POs, onboard vendors, process invoices, and make payments. Ultimately we control expenses for an accurate P&L and balance sheet.

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our finance team as a Lead reporting to the Manager of this team. This candidate will eventually become the right hand of the Manager and help with day-2-day deliverables, building the team culture, help with audits, automate activities and bring efficiencies. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in this area, especially accounts payable, an execution focused mindset, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing a high-volume AP function.

What You'll Do?

- Responsible for monthly closure activities which includes ensuring compliance with internal deadlines, oversight of accounting ledgers, accuracy, review of journals, and reconciliations

- Drive preparation of back-up schedules for Accruals,Prepaid expenses, and complex transactions. Conduct ledger analysis to explain specific accounting treatments.

- Verification of employee claims as per the Company policy, accounting and payment to the employees

- Support Audits - internal, statutory and tax audits. Actively participate in due diligences where required.

- Identify and evangelize process improvement and automation opportunities. Own and drive implementation and any change in processes

- Continue to improve the payment process.

- Develop and implement policies, procedures, and controls to streamline P2P processes and mitigate risks

- Analyze various reports like Vendor aging, Vendor Master Data - to further balance sheet health.

- Participate in tech projects - providing functional specifications, identifying problems that can be automated/simplified, conducting UATs, front ending with vendors where needed, and driving implementation of new tools with a continued focus to bring improvements within AP operations.

- Proven leadership skills, with credentials to manage team of 3-4 people

- Lead different projects for accounts payable defined by Manager/Functional head

Who are you?

- A qualified Chartered Accountant with 2 to 3 years of experience Accounts Payable function and in accounting

- Big 4 and Startup experience preferred

- Knowledge of P2P functions necessary.

- Knowledge of SAP ideal

- Excellent interpersonal skills, a curious mind, and the ability to work effectively with multiple, cross-functional stakeholders.

- High level of self-motivation, leadership, and a positive attitude. Should be focused on 'getting things done'.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel

- Proven capability to guide and work well with diverse personalities at all levels.

Where you'll be?

Bangalore (Hybrid)

Why join ShareChat?

- We believe in creating economic opportunities for our content creators as a shared purpose. Join us to make a tangible impact for regional Indian audiences.

- Grab an opportunity to solve complex problems powered by our AI and ML recommendation system for over 325 million monthly active users, 80 million creators and key partners.

- Drive your career growth through our upskilling programs, accelerated by values like speed and ownership.

- You get a chance to work with top talent across the globe in a collaborative and learning culture.

- Experience growth in a people-first organization with unparalleled rewards and employee-centric policies, including ESOPs, monthly childcare allowance, insurance, and more.