Manager - Accounts

Role & responsibilities

1. Review plant books of accounts, Trial Balance (TB), financial schedules, and ensure timely submission of reports to the regional finance team.

2. Monitor inventory and stock control, including monthly physical verification, BOM updates in SAP, material consumption, and stock reconciliation.

3. Review product costing, material consumption variances, abnormal losses, and manufacturing wastage, and highlight cost deviations to regional management.

4. Ensure timely and accurate booking of vendor, transporter, freight, and detention bills as per approved LOIs.

5. Ensure statutory compliance, including GST, TDS, TCS, tax payments, statutory return filing, and maintenance of compliance trackers.

6. Conduct vendor, contractor, transporter, and scrap reconciliations to ensure accuracy of financial records and timely resolution of discrepancies.

7. Monitor monthly overheads, detention expenses, breakages, prepaid expenses, provisions, and other plant-related costs.

8. Ensure proper fixed asset accounting, monthly cost runs in SAP, and accurate financial reporting.

9. Coordinate with internal and external auditors, corporate tax teams, vendors, transporters, and statutory authorities to resolve financial and compliance issues.

10. Prepare and review monthly financial MIS reports covering product costing, stock variances, overheads, scrap, and abnormal consumption.

11. Ensure timely booking of invoices, maintain accounting accuracy, and facilitate applicable vendor discounts through effective financial controls.

12. Drive plant-level financial discipline, cost optimization, and process improvements in coordination with regional finance and plant operations teams.

Preferred candidate profile

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) with 810 years of relevant experience exclusively in the Alcoholic Beverages Industry, preferably in IMFL, distillery, brewery, or liquor manufacturing.
• Strong hands-on experience in plant finance, manufacturing accounting, inventory control, and product costing.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP experience in manufacturing finance.
• Thorough knowledge of BOM, material consumption, stock reconciliation, abnormal losses, scrap accounting, and cost control.
• Experience in GST, TDS, TCS, statutory compliance, tax coordination, and financial audits.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, financial MIS, Trial Balance review, and monthly closing activities.
• Experience in vendor, transporter, contractor, and freight bill reconciliation.
• Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.