Associate Finance Controller - KPO

Key Responsibilities :

Execution of day to day activities, including but not limited to:

- Receive head count and business volumes for the relevant month is received/ authenticated for accuracy and reported in the relevant HFM format.

- On completion of financial book close for the month, extract relevant business warehouse reports, prepare the P&L, Balance sheet - obtain sign off from country CFO and report in HFM

- Ensure financial figures reported in HFM is reconciled with the books of accounts maintained in SAP

- Analyze and cleanse all intercompany transaction to ensure they are reported under the correct entity to avoid differences during group consolidation.

- Where different systems are used by the business; ensure that the operational system and the financial system is reconciled, differences identified and corrected to ensure correct reporting in the financial system.

- Report weekly CM1 / volumes to the stakeholders - clearly mapping difference between budget and actual to enable visibility on the business performance.

- Prepare financial over view depicting CM1/EBIT and other parameters per branch in the country to enable performance monitoring /take necessary actions to add value to the business.

- Ensure proper segregation of duties is maintained and monitored. Take appropriate action where segregation of duties is violated.

- Follow up on all relevant open items to ensure compliance with control dash board requirements.

- Escalate where necessary if control dash board compliance is violated.

- Using relevant inputs received from the business, prepare full year estimates - detailing projections for revenue, cost, CM1, volumes.

- Follow up on open cost estimates with relevant stakeholders in country to ensure proper action is taken.

- Analyse sales orders not recognized for revenue - identify root cause take appropriate action.

- Prepare necessary budgets

- Prepare any adhoc reports / analysis required by the business partners in countries

- Maintain all relevant documentation

- Ensure relevant level 4 and level 5 SOP's are kept updated for all activities done.

- Maintain and continuously update all relevant communication matrix within GSC and also client specific

- Maintain adequate internal control for activities done

- Ensure relevant tracking files are maintained to track the agreed SLA and KPI's with the stakeholder

- Ensure visual management boards are updated regularly

Process improvements :

- Have a continuous improvement mindset & identify improvement in day to day process

- Eliminate waste, provide suggestions for automating processes to facilitate efficiency improvement

- Identify areas of service delivery improvement & give recommendations to responsible parties to ensure qualitative improvement in the service delivery with a customer delight mindset.

- Ensure best practice is shared among other teams in the GSC

- Identify areas of service delivery improvement towards relevant business partners, give recommendations to responsible parties, co-ordinate and implement to ensure continuous improvement in service delivery and ensuring customer delight

Stakeholder communication :

- Regularly participate and take telecoms - with business partners

- Respond to queries in a professional manner

- Communicate with other teams within GSC.

Others :

- Ensure that all major risks are identified, documented and appropriately dealt with.

- Actively participate in relevant business contingency testing. Support other GSC's during contingency procedures.

- Strict adherence to APM-M Group culture, values and reputation and ensure compliance with APM-M Group and CB policies

Position Specifications :

- Sound knowledge in end to end accounts stream (4+ yrs experience)

- Sound accounting knowledge, ability to link upstream and downstream processes

- High level of computer skills with a variety of complex applications

- Analytical & Problem Solving ability for trouble shooting

- Planning and plan execution ability

- Interpersonal skills

Technical Skills :

- In-depth knowledge of systems used by area of responsibility (SAP)

- Overall knowledge of all software used and inter dependencies of various processes

- MS Office applications

- Good written and oral communication skills

Learning Description : .

- Strong familiarity with the business needs for Area of responsibility, understanding of full functionality of processes transferred