Sr.Exe - Accounts Finalization

Role & responsibilities

1. Opex & Working Capital Governance

• Own accounting, review, and control over Operating Expenses booking by Plant Teams, ensuring correctness, proper classification, and period alignment.
• Drive governance over Current Assets and Current Liabilities, including:
• Vendor and Customer balances, provisions, accruals, and advances
• Other receivables, deposits, and short-term assets
• Ensure timely identification, ageing, and closure of open items, with clear accountability and escalation of long-pending balances.

2. Books Closure & Financial Hygiene

• Own relevant sections of the Trial Balance, ensuring high-quality GL hygiene with a focus on Opex and working capital accounts.
• Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual book closures within defined timelines, with zero tolerance for unreconciled balances.
• Ensure all reconciliations (vendor, advances, accruals, provisions, and other current accounts) are completed, reviewed, and signed off.

3. Financial Reporting & Compliance

• Support preparation and finalization of financial statements in compliance with Ind AS, with specific ownership of schedules relating to Opex and current items.
• Ensure regulatory and statutory compliance in areas handled, including Companies Act and applicable reporting requirements.

4. Audit & Assurance Readiness

• Act as a single point of ownership for audit queries relating to Opex and current balance sheet items.
• Ensure audit-ready documentation, reconciliations, and schedules with proper backups and explanations.

5. Intercompany, Invoicing & Reconciliation Controls

• Manage and review Intercompany Service Invoicing, ensuring proper documentation, and timely recording across entities.
• Ensure accurate accounting of Credit Notes and Debit Notes (both customer and vendor), with proper linkage to underlying transactions and approvals.
• Perform Customer and Vendor Reconciliations on a periodic basis, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely resolution of differences.

6. Controls, Process Improvement & Discipline

• Strengthen internal controls over expense booking, provisioning, and liability recognition.
• Identify and plug process gaps leading to leakages, delays, or inaccuracies in Opex and working capital reporting.
• Drive standardization, automation, and documentation (SOP adherence) across processes handled.
• Ensure strict adherence to timelines, maker-checker discipline, and review mechanisms.

7. Stakeholder Coordination & Behavioural Expectations

• Work closely with plant teams, procurement, and other functions to ensure completeness and accuracy of expense and liability capture.
• Demonstrate high ownership mindset proactively resolve issues rather than escalating incomplete work.
• Bring analytical thinking and questioning mindset to challenge unusual trends or balances.
• Ensure clear communication, accountability, and closure orientation in all deliverables.
• Actively contribute to building a robust, disciplined, and IPO-ready finance function.

Preferred candidate profile

CA with 0 -1 Years in similar roles with post-qualification experience in Accounts finalization, reporting, and audits