Manager or Senior Manager Group Finance and Accounts

Role & responsibilities

• Group Financial Consolidation: Orchestrate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for all group holding entities, joint ventures, and cross-border subsidiaries.
• Accounting Standards & Finalisation: Ensure absolute alignment with applicable Ind AS, IFRS, Indian GAAP, and modern revised corporate reporting disclosure standards. Oversee complete end-to-end finalisation of accounts across all entities.
• Intercompany Governance: Manage complex transfer pricing models, intercompany reconciliations, cross-charges, and periodic matrix transaction balancing.
• Process Standardization: Standardize automated charts of accounts across distinct group enterprise structures to guarantee unified operational visibility.
• Taxation & Regulatory Compliance: Supervise comprehensive tax planning pipelines covering domestic GST filing, direct corporate tax, deferred tax treatments, and international transfer pricing files. Maintain robust control over corporate advance tax computation checking.
• Audit Management & Controls: Lead relationships with Tier-1 external audit syndicates, resolve complex systemic audit queries, and implement stringent internal financial controls (IFC).
• Treasury & Investment Surveillance: Compile accurate Group Management Information System (MIS) summaries detailing cash burns, unit margins, and working capital optimization. Conduct routine investment checking and compliance audits for all group entities.
• Executive Liaison & Reporting: Review strategic meeting agendas, updates, and financial position decks directly with Directors and external Consultants to align on corporate directions.

Preferred candidate profile

Required Technical Competencies

• Regulatory Frameworks: Authoritative technical mastery of complex financial reporting standards, specifically including Ind AS 110 (Consolidated Financial Statements), Ind AS 115 (Revenue from Contracts with Customers), and Ind AS 116 (Leases).
• Financial Modeling & Analytics: Advanced capabilities building automated financial models, macro-enabled workflows, or interactive analytical dashboards via Power BI / Tableau to present metrics cleanly.

Preferred Soft Skills

• Executive Communication: Elite verbal and written capability to communicate complex balance sheet deviations, financial insights, and risk matrices effectively to the executive leadership team.
• Leadership & Team Management: Proven history managing distributed account execution squads, guiding junior team members, and collaborating across different sub-brands or corporate offices.