Senior Manager - Controlling

This role in summary

As a key member of the Controlling team the incumbent will lead Account Payable process, controlling and Reporting, SOX Controls & IFC, and drive Continuous Process Improvement through automation and AI embedment.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Internal: Collaborates with India Business Stakeholders, including Legal & Secretarial, Business Teams, IA, and Tax & Treasury.
• External: Manages relationships with Statutory Auditors (SRB).

Responsibilities:

• Leading a highly engaged team of 20 resources responsible for Stakeholders Management, Business Partnering, KPIs delivery wrt book closing, ensuring hygiene of financial information and reports.
• Overseeing the end-to-end accounts payable process, ensuring timely and accurate invoice processing and payment execution.
• Ensuring Statutory Audit closure process of all entities entrusted without any major audit point by effectively collaborating with auditors and business team.
• Ensuring correct accounting, policy compliance, enhancing SOX controls & IFC for the different entities for Whirlpool of India and Elica India
• Regular support to other function eg direct tax, indirect tax for timely closure of tax related matters
• Managing vendor relationships and performance, including regular reconciliations and effective resolution of disputes.
• Monitoring and delivering departmental KPIs, focusing on productivity, quality scores, and SLA adherence for payment cycles.
• Supervise and Lead monthly/ periodic process review with relevant stakeholders
• Standardizing process narratives and SOPs to ensure operational transparency and audit readiness.
• Driving digital transformation initiatives by implementing and optimizing OCR and RPA solutions to automate manual booking tasks.
• Driving the functional design and configuration of SAP modules (FICO, MM, SD) to align with complex financial business requirements.
• Translating finance process needs into robust system architecture, ensuring end-to-end integration across financial and operational modules.
• Acting as the functional subject matter expert to facilitate process optimization, system performance, and user adoption across the finance organization.
• Capacity planning for team members to ensure optimum resources utilization.
• Developing a talent pool to manage contingencies and succession planning.