Job Summary
Assistant Manager, Finance - India to work and provide support on Statutory accounts, Financial statements, Statutory Audits, Taxation, Accounting, Receivables , Payable and FP&A related local support.
This position is a key business partner expected to work in close co-ordination with cross functional team fo
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r data collation, reviews, feedback & liaising with Auditors, Tax consultants.
The position also supports finance function/business by providing routine reporting and other analysis in areas such as month and quarter-end reviews, budgeting and forecasting, pricing, new product introductions.
Job Responsibilities:-
Responsibility Area One (60%): Statutory Accounts, Audit, Monthly Reconciliation, Taxation
Major Action:
• Preparation/consolidation of Statutory accounts, financial statements, CFS in consultation with Auditors
• Liaise with cross functional team/data owners & Auditors to complete the audit requirements in time
• Coordination & Follow-up with auditors for day-to-day audit work.
• Compare/Review MRL, Financial statement schedules, reports vs. previous year and highlight changes for further discussion with Finance lead and Auditors.
• Acts as central point of contact between Auditors, Tax Consultants & management to complete audit requirements, tax assignment, fillings on time.
• Liaise with company secretary to arrange the annual filling, Basic secretarial compliance in close coordination with Finance lead.
• Record keeping of Board Meetings Minutes and Board Resolutions in consult with company secretary.
• Provide information & liaise with tax consultants to arrange tax fillings, tax computation, TP documentation. Prepare comparative analysis for review and verification.
• Prepare TP adjustments templates, Quarterly Tax Packages in line corporate tax instructions & liaise with corporate tax team in relation to above.
• Provide data for yearend tax packages & arrange Tax journals postings in SAP based on instructions from Corporate tax through Shared Services
• Review and share monthly GST report to Tax consultants for filling.
• Monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliation, variance analysis update on Blackline
• Identify variances between Local GAAP vs. US GAAP in discussion/review with Auditors, Finance controller and post related entries in SAP with support of shared service team.
• To ensure compliance with Corporate policies and procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Monthly Cash Flow Forecasts
Responsibility Area Two (30%): Accounting and AR/AP Local Support India
• Review monthly accounting journals in close coordination with Shared Service Team.
• Review AR collection for India local entity in close coordination with AR associate and Sales Ops team.
• Review AP Payouts for Employee reimbursements, Group-company payouts & MSME Vendors for India local entity in close coordination with AP associate and Supply Chain Team.
• Coordinate monthly AR meeting with Sales team to update AR ageing commentaries and to discuss action items for long o/s.
• Review monthly funds position and group entities payouts.
• Support new customer/vendor creation & update existing customer/vendor master data via SharePoint workflows
• Review Financial review (D&B) to understand the credit worthiness/financial standings of customer
• Preliminary analysis of financial statements, D&B reports for credit limit & days recommendation
• Review, release credit blocks on account of credit limit, term by following appropriate DOA.
How will success be measured:
• Completion of Audits, Tax fillings, Secretarial filling well before due dates.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Local GAAP Vs. US GAAP while getting it done.
• Timely submission of Tax packages, TP Adjustments templates to Corporate Tax team
• Timely submission of GST fillings
• Timely submission of Monthly Reconciliations to Shared Service Team
• Achieve conformance to policy, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Timely collection of AR, D&B Reviews and Accurate creation/update of customer Masters.
• Timely payouts for group entity and MSME vendors.
• Exhibits customer/vendor and team focused behaviour.
• Accuracy, timeliness, presentation, and customer satisfaction.
Responsibility Area Three (10%): Financial and Business Analysis Support
• Working closely with Finance Controller -India to support:
o Working/analysis related to Preparation, consolidation of month end results, quarterly, annual forecasts/Budgets for India
o Support related to Data loads/retrieval for forecast via forecasting, reporting tools like Hyperion.
o Support ad hoc projects and help define systems improvements to support growth. e.g. Product profitability model
How will success be measured
• Timely and consistent support with preparation of budgets, forecasts, month end analysis & data loads
• Significant analytical and commercial skillset