Bira 91 - Senior Manager - Commercial Finance - CA

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Financial Accounting:

Timey Consolidation of Books of Accounts & Document Management:

- Monthly managerial reporting, Variance analysis v/s plan

- Input in Monthly business review, internal review. Ensure "complete, correct and updated" maintenance of books of accounts in accordance with company & generally accepted accounting principles.

- Involvement in the budgeting process and annual plans

- Responsible for Profit and Loss as well as working capital forecasts

- Identifying important opportunities across the organization and driving its implementations

- Ability to communicate analysis in a clear, succinct and persuasive manner

- Strong technical skills/agility with a variety of systems

- Demonstrated strong financial, operational and business acumen; strong achievement and results orientation

Receivable Management

- Implementation of credit management policy monitor credit risk & receivable reporting in all regions (except Corporation).

- Credit limit and doubtful debt management by customer.

- Setting up system to eliminate teaming & lading and balance confirmation.

- Reconciling all debtors at least once a year & twice a year for major customer.

- System of update recording of customer claim and settling within 15 days of receiving the claim.

- System of ensuring that no market commitment is unrecorded in books.

- System of ROI driven margin agreement.

- Overdue tracking and DSO management.

- Drive Pricing Committee and Credit Committee meetings

Propriety of expense:

- Ensure that expenses recorded in the books of accounts are the expense incurred for the purpose of business in complying internal control policy and procedures of the company.

- Selling expense management and control

Internal Control & Audits

- Complete understanding of Internal control policies of the company.

- Educating team & ensure adequate internal control is implemented.

- Ensure timely completion of various audits i.e. statutory, GAAP, tax & internal audits.

Business performance management

- Business performance analysis and reporting.

- Budgeting, Latest Estimates and strategic plan for their divisions

- Develop financial metrics to measure performance against plan and strategies.

- Proactively provide quality insight of the financial and strategic implication of business actions/strategy to decision maker to enable them to take informed decision.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

This individual will be responsible for driving commercial analysis and control around pricing, mix, volume and selling expenses including forecast process with monthly/quarterly updates and annual/strategic plans. Must understand monthly/quarterly actuals and key drivers of past performance, ensure consistency in financial reporting across categories and work on key financial projects that drive value. Maintaining Consolidated updated & error free books of accounts as per accepted accounting principles with complete ownership of the Trial Balance, Business performance management, Risk & Opportunity, Management, Information management and Business Partnering, Receivable management, Statutory compliance, instituting Internal control and Internal check systems, Audits, Document management, overcall consolidation of PAN India financials, driving efficiencies and process in all regions, driving standard reports. Clear alignment with all regions RFM's for the things / reporting's / compliances to be done at Region level, standardization of reports and ensuring timely reporting.

SKILLS REQUIRED

1. Experience

- CA with 6-9 years of experience in manufacturing / sales organization.

- Preferably with Alco Bev or FMCG in industry

2. Functional Skills

- Minimum of two years prior finance experience preferably in sales finance or financial planning & analysis environment

- Basic operational knowledge on ERP will be preferred

3. Technical Skills

- Should have expertise in use of MS Excel, MS Access, PowerPoint and Word.

- Analytical Ability - Should have a structured thinking process in identifying solutions. Ability to gather, interpret & evaluate data to identify patterns, trends & insights. Can suggest solutions based on data analysis to solve business problems.

- Aiming high, passion to build, first principles thinking with creative out of the box thinking

- Strong team player who manages collaboratively with all stakeholders

- Strong influencing and communication skills

The role is based out in Bangalore (Indira Nagar).