Key Responsibilities
- Working closely with the CFO to support the business to achieve its financial results through top line growth, effective cost management, and compliance with corporate financial procedures.
- Implement appropriate accounting systems, controls and procedures to better identify and track financial and profitable indicators, cut costs, improve profitability and minimize risks.
- Head Treasury & Banking Relationships, Trade Finance, FX & Commodity Risk Management. Be involved in Fund Raising through strong contacts in the Banking fraternity. Build relationships with the Banks, and other Financial Institutions.
- Identifying areas of improvement in working capital particularly receivables, inventory and advances across business and drawing up of remedial plan for liquidation and reducing capital employed.
- Cash flow forecasting and forward planning
- Head corporate financial planning and analysis function (long range plans, annual business plans, rolling quarterly forecast); work closely with business heads to develop budgets and forecasts and close monitoring of the performance with the plans.
- Knowledge of transfer pricing would be beneficial as group has multiple entities within India (4) and 2 outside India.
- Analyze and report operations performance including product costing.
- Ensure mitigation of risks across businesses through robust internal control systems
- Institute processed to collate, analyze and report daily/weekly/monthly/periodical reports
- Be the face of the organization and extensively interact with all key internal and external stakeholders (lenders/investors/board members/ vendors/ and when needed with customers as well)
Qualification & Experience
- Qualified Chartered Accountant / CFA with 15+ years of relevant experience
- Prior experience in fund mobilization (both working capital & term loans) would be preferred
- Experience of having worked in an entrepreneur led organization would be an advantage
