Senior Manager - Finance and Accounts

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 on 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 finalization.
• 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, aging 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 the 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 3 attempts.
• 4 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.