Finance Head

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The Finance Head is responsible for planning and coordinating budget and business planning activities in alignment with corporate policies and practices. The incumbent will provide financial direction to the plant and provide recommendations to improve site performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage all accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, G/L, Inventory/Cost Accounting and Revenue Recognition

• Manage month-end closing and prepare monthly financial statements and other operational reports for site

• Analyze variances and communicates explanations to management with recommended actions

• Prepare forecasts of income statement, balance sheets, and statement of cash flows

• Must work across organization boundaries and all levels of the company to achieve business and corporate objectives

• Integrates and trains new staff while leading the continued professional development of the existing team

• Shares best practices e.g. process improvements, financial modelling and procedures changes

• Provides proactive / unsolicited consultation, interpretation and education of complex financial and operational matters to various departmental leaders used to drive business decisions

• Monitor and implement plant internal controls (in conjunction with corporate policies) as necessary to ensure reporting integrity, safeguard company assets, and identify risks

• Ensures proper accounting in accordance with Ind AS as well as local statutory requirements

• Estimate product costs to support quoting activities

• Negotiate and finalise various commercial arrangements/agreement

Experience/Skills/Specific Knowledge/Education:

• At least 6 – 7 years’ experience in a similar position

• Knowledge of budgeting and forecasting techniques as well as proficiency with financial statement analysis and projection

• Cost accounting experience

• Demonstrated expertise in MS Office and SAP/ORACLE financial software

• Good planning/organizational skills and strong analytical skills

• Experience in handling multiple concurrent tasks and meeting strict deadlines

• Ability to read, analyse and interpret financial reports and legal documents.

• Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries from the business.

• Ability to effectively communicate with management, public groups, peers and staff.

• Excellent communication skills, internally and with customers/vendors

• Must demonstrate the highest standards of personal and professional integrity and character and promote ethical business behaviour throughout the organization

• Must be a team player and act cooperatively with the business

• Ability to lead and motivate teams to reach a common goal

• Demonstrate strong and pragmatic business acumen

Company Profile:

Firstcry.com is Asia’s largest online shopping portal for kids and baby products with more than 2 Lac products and over 10 million plus happy customers. The company has been growing rapidly since its inception in 2010 from 4 members to more than 2000 employees and the trend continues. With the headquarters in Pune, it also has presence in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai & Kolkata. The company is also expanding through the Franchise route, with more than 417+ stores opened across various states in India making it the second largest player in offline stores.

www.firstcry.com