Senior Manager - Finance & Accounts

This role owns the controllership line end-to-end. Day-to-day financial operations, accuracy and timeliness of the books, internal financial controls, statutory and tax compliance, regulatory filings, and the management of every audit.

Two people report into this role, one on receivables and one on payables, and between them they carry the transactional finance work. This role runs that team, sets the controls they work within, and is accountable for what the books say.

The role reports to the Head of Finance and Accounts. The person in it holds the day-to-day, carries the institutional knowledge of how the books and the controls work, and is the point of contact for auditors, tax consultants and the business. This is a hands-on role. With a team of two, the person in it reviews and also does.

Business finance, covering budgeting, forecasting and commercial analysis, is out of scope for this role. The role does, however, run a governance check over business finance reports and MIS before they are issued.

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Financial accounting and reporting:

• Own month-end, quarter-end and year-end close, delivered accurately and to schedule.
• Prepare and present the financial statements, covering the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Maintain books of account, monthly accruals, trial balance review, reconciliations and account finalisation.
• Own consolidation across group entities and the accounting treatment for multi-currency transactions, including revaluation and translation.
• Produce and review the monthly MIS pack for the Head of Finance and Accounts and the leadership team, and answer for what it shows.

Operations and team:

• Run the daily finance operation through the receivables and payables team, holding standards on accuracy, turnaround and documentation.
• Own the receivables cycle, covering invoicing accuracy, collections discipline, ageing review, provisioning and escalation where accounts run past terms.
• Own the payables cycle, covering vendor onboarding, approvals, payment runs and vendor reconciliation.
• Manage banking, cash and treasury administration, foreign inward remittances and the documentation that goes with them.
• Set the work plan for the team, review their output, build their capability, and make sure the function does not depend on any single person.

Controls and governance:

• Design, implement and maintain internal financial controls that protect company assets and the integrity of financial data.
• Document the finance process: delegation of authority, approval matrices, standard operating procedures and segregation of duties.
• Identify financial and operational risk, raise it early, and close what audits and reviews surface.
• Improve systems and processes so the function scales without adding headcount in proportion.

Statutory, tax and compliance:

• Own direct and indirect tax compliance, covering GST, TDS, advance tax, income tax returns and assessments.
• Manage transfer pricing documentation and compliance across group entities, working with external advisors.
• Handle corporate and secretarial compliance, including Companies Act and ROC filings, with the company secretary.
• Manage cross-border compliance on export of services, including FIRC, SOFTEX and applicable RBI and FEMA requirements.
• Keep the company compliant with applicable accounting standards, regulations, and internal policy, and track changes that affect us.

Audit:

• Own the relationship with statutory auditors, internal auditors and tax consultants, from planning through to sign-off.
• Prepare audit schedules, respond to queries directly, and close observations within agreed timelines.
• Support client, group and regulatory information requests where finance is involved.

Stakeholders:

• Work with the Head of Finance and Accounts on technical positions, reporting and the development of the function.
• Support the business on invoicing, client billing queries, vendor matters and commercial documentation.
• Present clearly to leadership, and hold a position in front of auditors and advisors with the reasoning behind it.

Requirements:

• Chartered Accountant, cleared within a maximum of two attempts.
• 5 to 8 years of post-qualification experience. Articleship years are not counted.
• Experience gained in a finance team of roughly five to twenty-five people, where you saw the whole of the close rather than one process inside it.
• At least two years running a controllership function, or a substantial part of one, with people reporting in.
• Hands-on experience with multi-entity and multi-currency accounting.
• Experience managing statutory and internal audits end-to-end.
• Experience in B2B services, SaaS or technology is preferred.
• Exposure to US or European clients is an advantage.
• Working knowledge of an ERP and associated finance systems, with the ability to improve how they are used rather than only operate them.