Senior Manager / AGM - Finance

Job Role:

Compliance and Audit

• Oversee all audits: statutory audit, internal audit and IFC audits. Proactively engage with various engagement teams, build plans, ensure timely delivery of information and timely completion of all queries.

• 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

• Develop and maintain financial policies, procedures, and controls. Ensure alignment with Alkem group where need be. Revise policies to ensure compliance with changing laws in all jurisdictions where the company operates

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

• Proactively lead all aspects of appropriately establishing accounting, reporting, transfer pricing and revenue recognition models with auditors. Proactively engage Alkem Finance team to ensure alignment with the group.

Statutory and Financial reporting:

• Support month end and year end closing across both geographies: India and US

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

• 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

Internal Controls System:

• Oversee Enzene group’s internal financial control system. Establish an overarching system that monitors and reports our levels of compliance across Tax, Legal, Statutory and Labour laws. Implement remediation methods (CAPAs) as/when needed to ensure our system is in control

• Set-up processes for periodic validation of our assets as required by our auditors: stock takes, A/R confirmations, fixed asset verification

• Responsible for financial controls, oversight and accounting of entire capex expansion plans

Strategic Projects:

• Lead projects that enable Enzene to build/scale-up its operations with full business continuity. Example: co-lead the implementation of SAP for Enzene. Lead implementation of CDMO revenue recognition systems

Educational qualification & Experience:

• Master’s degree in accounting, or a related field along with CA certification

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in accounting, with at least 3 years in controllership roles.

• Experience in the biotech, pharmaceutical or big 4 audit firms is required.

• Strong process acumen, understanding of finance workflows and processes

• Strong understanding of accounting and taxation norms as well as knowledge of all relevant financial and legal statutory norms

• Digital-savviness and understanding of tech implementation of finance processes

• Demonstrated ability to manage teams and drive excellence in performance, development and growth

• Experience across geographies and ability to work in a high growth environment with agility is highly desirable.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Soft skill competencies: