Head of Finance

Designation: CFO

Reporting To: CEO

Location: Mumbai

Experience: Around 20- 25 Years of experience in Finance & Accounts from a listed Company

• Responsible (either directly or via staff) for all cash management, investments, insurance, budgeting, financial reporting, and help drive the company’s financial planning, strategy and hiring (related to FP&A) needs
• Coordinate development of annual operating, capital, and program budgets in collaboration with department heads, as well as reporting for the same, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities
• Oversee internal and external audits and work closely with the auditors to ensure timely completion
• Ensure cash flow is compatible with operations by overseeing day-to-day accounting, recording, reporting, and internal-control activities of the organization
• Develop and implement best practices and tools to ensure a well-controlled yet flexible organization that has strong fiscal management, project coordination, cross-team communications, and workflows across the company as well as its subsidiaries
• Work with management teams to efficiently develop proposals for project finance, collate project finance information, and ensure compliance and reporting
• Work with management and accounting teams of subsidiaries to improve the processes being followed by their finance teams
• Monitor business performance and prepare detailed MIS and ad hoc reports in preparation for earnings calls
• Participate in meetings with the company’s investors and earnings calls or meetings with analysts
• Manage finance personnel and oversee financial IT systems, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory requirements. Coordinate and support the work of the Company Secretarial team as required
• Manage relationship with banks / lenders and investors

Preferred skills and qualifications:

• CA with at least 20-25 years post-qualifying experience
• Experience in Mergers and Acquisitions and investor relations • Professional experience with a listed company is a must
• • Experience of having worked with companies across multiple jurisdictions would be a strong plus
• • Experience of having overseen the work of a company secretarial team would be a plus
• • Experience of having led structuring work (related to M&A) would also be a plus