DGM/GM - Finance - Pharma/FMCG/FMCD

- Candidate (He/She) would be a highly accomplished finance professional with significant leadership experience and strong business acumen.

- 12+ years of post-qualification experience, holding roles of increasing responsibility in the finance function

- Prior experience in pharma or listed entity will be preferred

- Education Qualification - CA/ICWA or MBA-Finance from reputed "B" School.

This position heads the following areas:

- Financial operations covering (COE -Revenue, collection and payables)

- Financial reporting

- Inventory Control

- Fixed Assets Control

- Treasury

- MIS & SO Management

Responsibilities :

Finance operations :

Key Activities :

- Assess robustness of current systems, processes and policies across accounting, revenue, inventory and Capex management

- Oversee completion of special projects, and IT automations for finance processes

- Drive timely reporting of business MIS/ business analytics / intelligence on business request

- Provide inputs on cost optimization and monetizing opportunities

- Support with periodic balance sheet review with CFO

Key Metrics :

- Adherence to internal financial management norms

- Timeliness and accuracy of business reporting

- Completion of special projects

Revenue Management :

Key Activities:

- Oversee the functioning of the credit control team and ensure that all deals are getting verified, checked and credit terms are as per organizational norms

- Supervise the functioning of the invoicing team to ensure accurate and timely invoicing of the sales are being made

- Ensure that all collections are banked as per norms, review the MIS frequently; Take corrective actions as required

- Review AR, provisions/ write-offs, accruals and deferrals and take actions as required

- Ensure appropriate Revenue Recognition as per policy and applicable standards and ensure adequate controls to prevent leakages etc

Key Metrics :

- Adherence to all norms and organizational procedures

Compliance and Audit:

Key Activities:

- Develop processes and systems across the accounting and finance function to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory norms

- Oversee compliance to accounting norms and procedures with respect to contracts, employee and vendor payments, income tax, TDS, GST, RBI guidelines and other statutory norms

- Oversee audits as an auditee (like IFCR, and Internal Assurance audit) and manage regulatory risks for the company; Provide clarifications as required by the auditors

- Track action against observations and ensure closure of non-compliances

- Revise policies to ensure compliance with changing laws in all jurisdictions where the company operates

Key Metrics:

- Timely completion of compliance and audit activities

- No Non-Compliance in audits

Payables:

Key Activities :

- Ensure timely payments to vendors/ employees (including payroll & related compliances, reimbursements) while maintaining adequate controls, proper accounting and process efficiency

- Review payables, provisions/ write backs, advances etc. and take appropriate actions depending on requirement

- Ensure adherence to applicable policies like anti-bribery etc. and initiate actions to strengthen the same in the organization

Key Metrics :

- Timely release of payments

Treasury Management:

Key Activities:

- Monitoring and managing the organization's bank relationships and liquidity management

- Managing foreign currency exposure and foreign currency payments

- Analyzing various scenarios and risks and reporting to senior management

- Forecasting of medium and long- term funding and hedging requirements

- Daily cash management

- Debt facilities management

- Interest rate risk management and development of risk mitigation strategies

- Foreign exchange risk management and development of foreign exchange risk mitigation strategies

- Preparing management and board reports

Key Metrics:

- Adherence to process, No speculation activities

- Team engagement score

- Attrition

Financial reporting:

Key Activities:

- Support month end and year end closing

- Support the Quarterly and Annual Reports and manage the internal and external review for these documents

- Prepare quarterly earnings release

- Monitor and ensure timely identification and compliance with evolving accounting guidance, provide IFRS/ Ind AS interpretation and prepare technical memorandums that document issues in a clear, logical and comprehensive manner

- Communicate and explain accounting issues and evolving accounting guidance to the management team

- Manage communications with external auditors on external financial statements and accounting issues to ensure auditor agreement with company decisions on accounting disclosures, and issues

- Assist in the coordination of annual audit and quarterly review activities of external auditors

- Supervise international accounting and issue identification and resolution

- Create, implement and maintain comprehensive worldwide accounting policy documents to improve clarity and consistency

- Implement and maintain reporting procedures to comply with internal control requirements

- Perform continuous assessment of the close process and process re-engineering to reduce the timing to close the financial period

Managing team performance:

Key Activities:

- Track team performance at an overall and individual level and provide support/ guidance wherever required to ensure achievement of yearly plans

- Manage effective resource allocation across different teams, enhance the capability quotient of team members and drive higher team engagement through appropriate HR interventions

Key Metrics:

- Team engagement score

- Attrition