Senior Manager Finance - Bengaluru, India - ANSR

Description

About the function:

ANSR provides full-suite of services in the Finance & Accounts domain to the GCC (Global Capability Centre) partners. This includes accounting, local & statutory compliances, reporting activities, business advisory, forecasting, budgeting, cash flow management, FP&A, setting up internal controls & processes and support to leadership team & parent organization. The GCC's are subsidiaries of large global organizations (listed or unlisted) in their home countries and are driven by way of strong culture of transparency, high standards of performance, strong controls on compliances and high level of accountability. The finance team works very closely with the GCC leadership and ANSR account managers to provide support through the entire lifecycle of the GCC.

Expectations from this role:

• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures and processes relevant to GCC's for finance, accounts and compliance functions.
• To create, establish and maintain governance framework for compliance with contractual terms, develop minimum level of standards of communication to clients and adherence of specific needs to each client.
• To bring standardization and automation in routine work.
• Establish and maintain a strong review system for:
• Accounting of financial transactions in books of account based on Indian GAAP.
• Establish finance control on all financial transactions (payments, invoicing, collections, documentation)
• Month close process and record accounting entries and transactions as part of period close activities.
• Review of local regulatory financial reporting and tax requirements.
• Compliance to contractual arrangements, direct and indirect taxation, FEMA, FDI etc.
• Timely and accurate group reporting to the parent organization based on reporting and reconciliation submission calendar.
• Establish, maintain and report service levels across various sub-processes of the finance function.
• Ensures quality control over financial transactions, financial reporting, accuracy and integrity of the books of account and the financial information generated.
• Understand and support the needs to GCC leadership team related to finance function and ensures delivery.
• Focus and support to GCC's finance team on completion of Statutory, tax audit and tax filings along with finance leader.

Expectations from the candidate:

• Self-starter with the ability to work and lead in a fast-paced, complex and challenging environment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, with focus on accuracy and adherence to deadlines.
• Ability to think laterally and challenge the status quo.
• Ability to manage and deliver value to stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Big 4 experience for 2-4 years will be an added advantage.

Experience required:

• Strong financial aptitude with 7 to 10 years of work experience having exposure to General Accounting, Finance control, taxation, reporting, budgeting, forecasting and other transactional Finance activities.
• Working knowledge of local Indian financial reporting, tax and secretarial compliance requirements
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Maturity/handling confidential information
• The candidate would play a major role in completion of both statutory and tax audit in a timely manner with no audit observation of the GCC's.
• Exposure of preparation of deliverables for Leadership and Board meetings.
• Possesses strong analytical skills.

Educational Credentials:

• CA with 7-10 years' experience or CWA / MBA with 10 to 15 years' of experience.