Deputy Finance Manager

Job description

**Role & responsibilities** **. Financial Controllership & Governance** - Ensure accuracy, completeness, and integrity of books of accounts and financial records. - Establish and maintain a robust financial control framework across key business processes. **2. Accounting & Financial Closing** - Oversee periodic book closure processes and ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing. - Review general ledger entries, provisions, accruals, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and other key accounting areas. **3. Payments & Accounts Payable Management** - Oversee end-to-end payment processes, ensuring timely and accurate payments to vendors, employees, statutory authorities, and other stakeholders. - Ensure all payments are processed in accordance with approved policies, contractual terms, delegation of authority, and internal controls. **4. Statutory & Regulatory Compliance** - Ensure timely and accurate compliance with applicable direct and indirect tax requirements, including GST, TDS, income tax, and other relevant statutory obligations. - Ensure timely filing of statutory returns and payment of applicable taxes and duties. **5. Audit Management** - Lead and coordinate statutory audits, internal audits, tax audits, and other financial or compliance-related audits. - Act as the primary point of coordination between auditors and internal stakeholders. **6. Internal Financial Controls & Risk Management** - Design, implement, document, and periodically test internal financial controls across key finance processes. - Identify control gaps, financial risks, fraud vulnerabilities, and process inefficiencies. **7. Treasury & Banking Coordination** - Coordinate with banks for payment processing, account administration, and other banking requirements. - Monitor cash positions and support effective cash-flow management. **8. Financial MIS & Reporting** - Prepare and review periodic financial reports and management dashboards covering financial performance, cash flows, working capital, compliance, payments, audit status, and key control indicators **9. Process Improvement & Automation** - Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, and automate finance processes. **Preferred candidate profile** - **Education:** CA qualification would be preferred for a role with significant financial controllership and statutory compliance responsibilities. - **Experience:** 1-4 years of relevant experience in financial controllership, accounting, payments, statutory compliance, audit management, and financial governance. - **Preferred Experience:** Prior experience in FMCG, manufacturing, consumer goods, food processing, or a similar operating environment would be advantageous.