Welspun - Chief Operating Officer

Opportunity:

At Welspun, we strongly believe in our purpose to delight customers through innovation and technology and achieve inclusive and sustainable growth to remain eminent in all our businesses.

From Homes to Highways, Hi-tech to Heavy metals, we lead tomorrow together to create a smarter and more sustainable world.

We are looking for a "Chief Operating Officer (COO)" to manage the Finance & Account tower including 100+ employees of the Textile Vertical.

You will be responsible for managing a team of accountants as well as maintaining and controlling the books of several legal entities.

Key Accountabilities & Interactions:

- Escalation Management

- SLA & Reverse SLA Management

- KPI Governance

- Managing stakeholders - CFO of respective Clients

- Government Agencies / Banks / Consultants / Internal & External Auditors

Your key responsibilities:

- COO is expected to have end-to-end function Knowledge & understanding including (General Lager, Indirect/Direct TAX, Government Incentives, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable).

- He/ She is expected to guide the team and have result oriented approach keeping customer centricity in mind.

- Please refer to the below points for a detailed understanding of the role with specific towers & headcount.

- General Lager (Employee Strength - 20)

- Lead the year-end closing process

- Guide & Monitor asset, liability, capital accounting, and analyzing account information; Summarizes current financial status by guiding team in coting information; preparing balance sheet, profit, and loss statement, and other reports

- Monitor Document financial transactions for several legal entities;

- Review financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information

- Substantiate financial transactions by auditing documents and ensure that financial statements and records comply with laws and regulations

- Lead external statutory and fiscal audits and ensure 100% compliance report

- Guide & Monitor team to Develop procedures and controls to ensure accuracy and standardize and/or simplify processes;

Accounts Payable (Employee Strength - 20)

- Lead process delivery for AP & Treasury Functions

- Review GRIR Ageing and take the required action to keep it in control

- Keep strong governance on Advances & Clearance

- Understanding of TDS & applicable TAX to guide team

- Review and put strong control on TDS deduction

- Guide team in resolving exceptions and take lead to close all escalations

- Review and report the performance of the AP & Treasury tower to the respective stakeholders

- Align team performance with shared services operations' performance objectives

- Lead & Manage systems /automation, process, workflow improvements, and enhancements pertaining to his/ her team

- Responsible for developing and reporting operational metrics, SLA and identifying opportunities for improving operations and services of his/ her team

Accounts Receivable / OTC (Employee Strength - 30)

- Accountable for entire OTC process and departmental functions such as customer master maintenance, Credit administration, collections, cash application processes, AR-related management reporting, tax compliance & corresponding internal controls,

- Establish and guide the OTC team and operations across all entities in a KPI-driven Shared

Experience:

- Qualified CA (max 3 attempt) with minimum 15+ years of experience

- Shared Service Centre / GCC environment

- Must be from Mid-Size company like 500Cr + and Must have lead a team of 15+

- SAP is a mandate