About the Role
This role involves assisting the finance management team with various transactional and operational duties, focusing on the accuracy of financial reporting, efficient cost management, and strong customer relations. You will play a critical role in maintaining financial hygiene and supporting adherence to accounting standards.
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Roles & Responsibilities
- Addition/Deletion and Maintenance of Fixed Assets
- Advising on Accruals for specific expense categories
- Establishing firm dates with sales personnel for recoveries and following up for collection
- Reviewing and approving employee expenses
- Posting credit notes
- Building relationships through customer visits, specifically with the Customer Finance department
- Managing problematic customer receivable cases
- Generating department-wise cost center overhead reporting
- Handling employee receivables
- Following up on overdue invoice collections
- Forecasting bank remittances and cash flow
- Conducting GL and cost center-wise reviews and reconciliations
- Processing HHT RV and manual RV posting and allocation
- Importing expenses through various sources to Accounts Payable, running SLA, verifying transactions, and posting to GL
- Initiating, reviewing, and accepting intercompany transactions
- Managing intercompany credit and payments
- Booking invoices
- Handling legal cases related to customers
- Maintaining relationships with government departments and police
- Managing TMI/CMI data and charging it to Business Units
- Daily entry of manual RVs for key account customers
- Executing month-end closing entries and processes for AP/GL/FA
- Conducting month-end accruals and ad-hoc reporting
- Preparing Monthly Management Information Systems (MIS) and related annexures and schedules
- Performing accounts receivable cleanup during ERP reviews
- Handling other legal work, such as municipal permissions
- Passing journal vouchers at month-end
- Preparing balance sheet schedules
- Allocating and reconciling receipts
- Conducting receivable reviews
- Responding to ad-hoc data requirements and clarifications
- Tracking payments and ensuring accounts receivable hygiene
- Supporting sales teams for collections
KPIs
- Accrual Accuracy
- Ad-hoc Reporting Accuracy
- Accounts Receivable Hygiene
- Cash Flow Estimation Accuracy
- Legal Case Closure Timeliness
- Cost Savings Initiatives Impact
- Cost-Center Accounting Accuracy
- Customer Reconciliation Efficiency
- Month-end and Year-end Cut-off Accuracy
- Overdue Percentages
- Process Efficiency
- Recoveries from Legal Cases
- Sales Value Support
- Strength of Internal Controls
- Timely Filing and Tracking of Legal Cases
- Timely TMI Charging to Intercompany
- Monthly Book Closure Timeliness
- Timely Financial Reporting to Management
- Vendor Overdues Management
- Vendor Reconciliation Coverage Percentage
- Invoice Processing Volume and Accuracy
- Vendor Credit Management and Payments
- Working Capital Reporting
Work Experience Requirement
- Minimum of 5 years in a financial function within the FMCG sector
Qualifications
- ICWA, B. Com, MBA/M.Com
- ACCA, CPA
Competencies
- Accounting Standards and Practices
- Financial Compliance
- Budgeting
- Financial Planning and Analysis
- Documentation and Reporting
- Effective Communication
- Self and Team Management
- Planning & Decision Making
- Customer Centricity
- Ownership & Result Orientation
