Financial Reporting Manager

As a Finance and Accounts professional, your primary responsibility will be to manage monthly book closure activities, including the preparation and posting of Journal entries, financial reporting, and reconciliations. You will apply the entity's accounting policies to non-routine events or transactions, ensuring independent review for appropriateness and highlighting exceptions to the business promptly. Your role will involve investigating and resolving unusual items and exceptions, recording them in the general ledger within the appropriate accounting period. You will oversee the Financial and Management Reporting (RTR) processes, ensuring that service level agreements are met in terms of timeline and accuracy. Your overall responsibilities will include inventory accounting, mark-to-market or fair value accounting, month-end processing, trial balance, PNL and balance sheet review, management reporting, inter-company reconciliations, account reconciliations, budgeting, and forecasting. To qualify for this role, you should be a Commerce Graduate/MBA/CA/CMA with 1-10 years of experience in the Finance and Accounts domain, preferably in an FMCG or Manufacturing environment. You must have experience in setting up Validation Checklists for all processes, reviewing them continuously for completeness and accuracy. Additionally, you should be adept at independently reviewing, validating, and authorizing journal entries, ensuring they are recorded in the appropriate accounting period. Experience in preparing plant costing reports, Inventory Reporting, COML run, MUV/PPV absorption costing, and standard costing is essential. You should possess excellent knowledge of fixed assets accounting, and familiarity with Bill of Material creation, production/work order settlement, etc. A strong understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is required. Proficiency in SAP/Oracle and SAP BPC/BO/BI would be advantageous. You should have strong analytical skills, logical reasoning, and leadership capabilities to handle pressure and work efficiently within strict deadlines. Flexibility to work in different time zones and travel (short informed trips) as per business requirements is expected for this role.,