Finance Manager

We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to lead financial controllership, reporting, compliance, and operational finance activities for our India operations. This role ensures accurate and timely financial reporting while maintaining compliance with government regulations and company policies. The Finance Manager will work closely with the India Finance Head, the APAC Finance team, and the Group Finance team in the Netherlands, while managing an outsourced finance provider in India. The role requires strong financial leadership, operational rigor, and the ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed environment.

Key responsibilities include reporting to the India Finance Head and providing overall financial and controllership leadership to the local finance team and outsourced finance provider. The Finance Manager will drive monthly book closing and financial reporting, ensuring complete documentation for audits and regulatory scrutiny. They will conduct monthly P&L and Balance Sheet reviews, ensuring timely reconciliation of balance sheet accounts. Additionally, the role involves managing and reviewing deliverables from outsourced finance teams to ensure compliance with government regulations and corporate guidelines. The Finance Manager will lead budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis while performing detailed ledger reviews. Maintaining strong internal controls to safeguard company assets, ensuring accurate financial reporting, and ensuring tax compliance are also key aspects of the role. The Finance Manager will support treasury management and working capital optimization, continuously review accounting processes to strengthen internal controls and ensure compliance with company policies, and collaborate with consultants to determine the correct direct and indirect tax treatments. They will oversee statutory, tax, and management reporting requirements, ensure revenue and cost recognition in compliance with IFRS 15 with proper documentation, oversee accounts payable processes ensuring timely payments and dispute resolution, manage accounts receivable processes including order management, invoicing, collections, credit control, and recovery of outstanding receivables, review and control intercompany reconciliations, manage fixed asset accounting and tracking, ensure accuracy of monthly accruals, ensure timely and accurate statutory filings and payments including TDS, GST, PF, ESI, PT, etc., liaise with internal and external auditors ensuring smooth audit processes and compliance, lead planning and forecasting activities with internal and external stakeholders to support business goals, supervise and mentor the local finance team fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented culture, support implementation of improvements in procedures, policies, and financial systems to support business scaling, and evaluate opportunities for insourcing outsourced finance activities where appropriate.

The ideal candidate will have a postgraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field, with an MBA in Finance, Chartered Accountant (CA), or Certified Accountant preferred. They should possess 8–13 years of finance experience, preferably in the service industry, with experience working in multinational or multi-business-unit environments being preferred. Desired skills include a strong understanding of Indian GAAP and IFRS standards, particularly internal controls and revenue recognition, strong financial leadership, strategic thinking, and business acumen, excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines, experience leading finance teams in multi-location or matrix organizations, a hands-on, detail-oriented, and data-driven approach to finance, the ability to work with remote corporate finance teams and global stakeholders, and a high level of ownership and accountability.

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