Sr.Exe - Accounts Finalization

Job Description

Role & responsibilities

1. Opex & Working Capital Governance

Own accounting, review, and control over Operating Expenses booking by Plant Teams, ensuring correctness, proper classification, and period alignment.
Drive governance over Current Assets and Current Liabilities, including:

Ensure timely identification, ageing, and closure of open items, with clear accountability and escalation of long-pending balances.

2. Books Closure & Financial Hygiene

Own relevant sections of the Trial Balance, ensuring high-quality GL hygiene with a focus on Opex and working capital accounts.
Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual book closures within defined timelines, with zero tolerance for unreconciled balances.
Ensure all reconciliations (vendor, advances, accruals, provisions, and other current accounts) are completed, reviewed, and signed off.

3. Financial Reporting & Compliance

Support preparation and finalization of financial statements in compliance with Ind AS, with specific ownership of schedules relating to Opex and current items.
Ensure regulatory and statutory compliance in areas handled, including Companies Act and applicable reporting requirements.

4. Audit & Assurance Readiness

Act as a single point of ownership for audit queries relating to Opex and current balance sheet items.
Ensure audit-ready documentation, reconciliations, and schedules with proper backups and explanations.

5. Intercompany, Invoicing & Reconciliation Controls

Manage and review Intercompany Service Invoicing, ensuring proper documentation, and timely recording across entities.
Ensure accurate accounting of Credit Notes and Debit Notes (both customer and vendor), with proper linkage to underlying transactions and approvals.
Perform Customer and Vendor Reconciliations on a periodic basis, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely resolution of differences.

6. Controls, Process Improvement & Discipline

Strengthen internal controls over expense booking, provisioning, and liability recognition.
Identify and plug process gaps leading to leakages, delays, or inaccuracies in Opex and working capital reporting.
Drive standardization, automation, and documentation (SOP adherence) across processes handled.
Ensure strict adherence to timelines, maker-checker discipline, and review mechanisms.

7. Stakeholder Coordination & Behavioural Expectations

Work closely with plant teams, procurement, and other functions to ensure completeness and accuracy of expense and liability capture.
Demonstrate high ownership mindset proactively resolve issues rather than escalating incomplete work.
Bring analytical thinking and questioning mindset to challenge unusual trends or balances.
Ensure clear communication, accountability, and closure orientation in all deliverables.
Actively contribute to building a robust, disciplined, and IPO-ready finance function.

Preferred candidate profile

CA with 0 -1 Years in similar roles with post-qualification experience in Accounts finalization, reporting, and audits