About the role
- Company: AFPL Group
- Position Title: Senior Manager - Accounts & Finance
- Department: Finance & Accounts
- Location: Corporate Office
- Reports To: Head of Finance / Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Direct Reports: * Manager / Assistant Manager (Payments & Taxation)
- Manager / Assistant Manager (Bookkeeping & General Ledger)
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Department Management: Lead, mentor, and evaluate a multi-tier team of accounts professionals responsible for bookkeeping, vendor payments, treasury, and taxation.
- Work Allocation & Review: Establish clear key performance indicators (KPIs) for direct reports, streamline department workflows, and run internal quality checks on all team outputs.
- SOP & Internal Controls: Develop, implement, and enforce robust standard operating procedures (SOPs) and internal financial controls (IFC) across all group entities to prevent financial leakages and fraud.
- Taxation Oversight: * Provide strategic guidance to the tax team on the monthly filing of GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, and the proactive utilization of GSTR-1A for mid-month amendments.
- Supervise complex tax reconciliations (such as GSTR-2B vs. Purchase Register) to maximize Input Tax Credit (ITC) utilization.
- Oversee Direct Tax compliance (Corporate Income Tax, Advance Tax, and TDS/TCS filings) and coordinate responses to tax notices and assessment representation.
- Payment & Treasury Authorization: * Act as a senior authorized signatory/approver for high-value corporate vendor disbursements, payroll files, and inter-company fund transfers.
- Monitor cash flow forecasting models prepared by the payments team to optimize group-level working capital.
- Financial Integrity: Review and sign off on monthly trial balances, ensuring strict compliance with Ind AS / IFRS / local GAAP.
- Inter-Company Consolidation: Oversee complex inter-company reconciliations, transfer pricing compliance, and elimination entries required to produce consolidated group financial statements.
- Asset & Inventory Valuation: Direct the physical verification and valuation audits for fixed assets and inventories across all warehouses/offices.
- C-Suite MIS Reporting: Compile and present comprehensive consolidated monthly MIS packs, summarizing group profitability, working capital health, cash flow run rates, and key business unit performance metrics directly to the CFO and Board.
- Strategic Variance Analysis: Drive deep-dive variance analysis (Budget vs. Actual, MoM, YoY) to identify cost-containment opportunities and process inefficiencies.
- Budgetary Control: Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting exercise, collaborating with cross-functional business heads to consolidate financial projections.
- Automation & BI Integration: Drive the integration of Business Intelligence (BI) tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) with the ERP to transition the team towards automated, dynamic dashboard reporting.
- Audit Ownership: Serve as the principal coordinator for statutory, internal, and tax audits, ensuring timely closure of audits with clean audit reports.
- Secretarial & Legal Alignments: Collaborate with the legal/secretarial team to ensure corporate compliance regarding board resolutions, filings, and statutory registries.
- Minimum Education: Master's degree in Commerce, Finance, or Accounting.
- Professional Certification (Mandatory): Chartered Accountant (CA) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is highly preferred.
- Overall Experience: Minimum of 8–10 years of post-qualification experience in corporate finance and accounting.
- Leadership Experience: At least 4–5 years in a core supervisory/managerial role managing a mid-to-large-sized team handling payments, taxation, and general ledger operations within a conglomerate or multi-subsidiary corporate structure.
- Advanced Accounting & Consolidation: Deep expertise in Ind AS/IFRS, consolidation rules, and managing multi-entity accounts.
- Taxation Systems: Expert-level understanding of the Indian GST ecosystem (GSTR-1/1A/3B/2B), Income Tax provisions, and transfer pricing.
- Advanced Data Management: Mastery of ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite) and MS Excel. Strong familiarity with BI visualization software (Power BI/Tableau) is highly valued.
- Executive Presence: Ability to comfortably present complex financial realities, budgets, and projections to executive directors and external stakeholders.
- Conflict Resolution: Strong leadership and conflict resolution skills to manage diverse task streams (Tax vs. AP vs. GL).
- Strategic Vision: Ability to look beyond basic bookkeeping to provide business-critical cost, cash, and tax optimization recommendations.