Senior Manager, Finance

Job Description

Position Overview We are seeking a motivated and experienced Senior Manager, Finance with approximately 10 years of professional experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will not only excel in building and improving Financial management skills to effective control over operational F&A tasks like book-keeping, auditing, taxation, MIS and such. Key responsibilities and expectations include: Accounting; MIS a. Prepare and maintain management reports (monthly balance sheets; P&L statements; cash-flow statements etc) b. Prepare variance analysis monthly; highlight key issues and unusual items; provide recommendations to re-mediate c. Prepare annual budgets (zero-based; activity based budgeting) o Engage with to educate and enable alignment of each office function (including Academics; R&D Outreach; Communications etc) towards activity-based budget making o Engage with each office function to eliminate or reduce costs incurred on low value-adding and non-value-adding activities across functions within the Institute d. Prepare monthly MIS for Management; provide ad hoc analysis e. Prepare and submit financial reports to external agencies (R&D grants; for projects done with industry or Research institutes etc) f. Interact with cross-functional teams, auditors and various consultants to ensure books are accurate, timely updated and periodically published to all stake-holders. 2. Audits a. Plan and conduct routine transactional, process and/or special audits b. Review audit findings; plan and implement needed preventive and corrective actions to address business financial process deficiencies c. Collaborate with Institute community to address correctives to business financial process changes 3. Taxation a. Ensure right accounting and compliances of transactions with tax rules (GST; income tax; TDS etc) 4. Financial Controls. Improvements in procedures a. Design, discuss and implement new or approved internal controls for the accounting and financial system of Institute 5. Routine Compliances a. Prepare and submit accurate and timely returns for complying with all statutory and regulatory requirements 6. IT Configuration. Improvements. Simplifications a. Front-ending IT implementations with regard to F&A 7. Other a. Work with varied functions to resolve exceptions or disputes to maintain the Institutes reputation (e.g. disputes with suppliers, outstanding advances) Technical Skills: Functioning of Finance & Accounts : Accounting; MIS , Audits , Taxation , Financial Controls , Routine Compliances , IT Configuration . Updated knowledge and application of IndAs Internal & statutory audits; driving process improvements for a tighter control Proficiency in using suite of MS OFFICE suite (EXCEL, PPT) proficiency in accounting software people skills for working with different stake holders & diverse set of people, both internally & externally; team leader & team player .