We are looking for Deputy General Manager - Finance & Accounts company based at Andheri west.

Role Objective

As the second-in-command to the CFO, this high-impact leadership role is responsible for driving financial excellence across corporate treasury, plant accounting, statutory controllership, and investor communication. The incumbent will serve as a strategic driver and the CFOs key operating armbridging the gap between corporate strategy and plant operations, steering robust financial controls, maintaining strict corporate governance, and leading a high-performing finance team toward long-term corporate scale.

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership & Visionary Execution

- Span of Control: Directly manage, mentor, and elevate a high-performance corporate finance and controlling team of 6-7 direct reports (including corporate accounts managers, MIS specialists, and plant finance leads).
- Capability Building: Foster a highly accountable, collaborative culture that breaks down functional and regional silos between the corporate head office and manufacturing facilities.
- Forward-Looking Financial Strategy: Demonstrate a visionary approach to financial planning. Look beyond monthly closing cycles to anticipate working capital trends, evaluate emerging regulatory/tax dynamics, and design the financial "way forward" to support capital market milestones and long-term corporate growth.

2. Plant Accounting & Operations Controlling

- Operational Oversight: Lead plant accounting teams from the Head Office to ensure absolute consistency in accounting policies, standard operating procedures, and strict internal financial controls across manufacturing facilities.
- Costing & Variance Analysis: Oversee product costing, inventory valuation, material yield analysis, and structural variance analysis (Standard vs. Actual) to optimize plant efficiencies and eliminate cost leakages.
- Capex Monitoring: Track capital expenditure approvals against budgets, ensuring accurate capitalized asset accounting and ROI tracking for expansion projects.

3. Audit Ownership & Query Resolution

- Audit Pipeline Management: Act as the primary corporate anchor and point of resolution for both Internal and Statutory Auditors.
- Technical Troubleshooting:



Establish definitive timelines for data provisioning, proactively address audit friction points, and directly resolve complex accounting or disclosure queries to ensure clean, unqualified, and timely financial reports.

4. Corporate Governance, Secretarial Alignment & RPT Controls

- Secretarial Interface: Partner closely with the Company Secretary (CS) and Legal teams to ensure seamless corporate governance and compliance with the Companies Act and SEBI regulations from a financial perspective.
- Rigorous Related Party Transaction (RPT) Controls: Establish and monitor a robust internal framework to track, validate, and control Related Party Transactions. Ensure all commercial arrangements, out-of-pocket expenses, or Key Managerial Personnel (KMP) allocations are accurately captured, properly approved, and impeccably disclosed within the financial statements' RPT tables.

5. Working Capital & Treasury Management

- Cash Flow Optimization: Actively manage and optimize the company's working capital cycle to maximize liquidity.
- Banking Relations: Serve as the primary operational contact for multiple banking partners; handle the renewal, enhancement, and structuring of fund-based and non-fund-based credit facilities.
- Fund Utilization: Monitor daily fund positioning and oversee cash flow forecasting models to ensure optimum utilization of working capital limits.

6. Corporate MIS, Budgeting & Forecasting

- Strategic Budgeting: Drive the annual operating plan (AOP) and budgeting exercises across all business units, functions, and plant locations.
- Actionable MIS: Design and maintain comprehensive monthly Management Information Systems (MIS) that provide deep-dive analytics into revenue segments, gross margins, EBITDA bridges, and cost centers.
- Rolling Forecasts: Deliver dynamic,



rolling financial forecasts to highlight emerging financial risks or operational opportunities.

7. Investor Relations Data & External Stakeholder Management

- Investor Deck Formulation: Collaborate closely with the CFO and the Investor Relations PR team to compile, validate, and synthesize complex financial and operational data into high-quality Investor Decks, Analyst Presentation templates, and Fact Sheets.
- Data Room & Diligence Readiness: Maintain a robust, audit-ready data repository to address ad-hoc queries from institutional investors, private equity partners, or during capital market transactions.
- Rating Agencies: Coordinate with credit rating agencies to facilitate annual and surveillance rating reviews, ensuring accurate data submission and strategic presentation of the companys financial health.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Educational & Professional Qualifications:

- Chartered Accountant (CA) is mandatory
- Experience: 10 to 14 years of post-qualification experience in Corporate Finance, Controllership, or Plant Accounting, preferably within a manufacturing sector.
- Proven track record of managing professional finance teams and directly interacting with commercial banks, rating agencies, secretarial teams, and statutory auditors.

Core Competencies & Skills:

- Managerial Capabilities: Proven experience in directly leading and developing a team size of 6-7 professional finance members. Possesses strong delegation skills and balances technical oversight with leadership coaching.
- Regulatory & Governance Acumen: Solid command over accounting standards (Ind AS) and the financial compliance boundaries of corporate governance, secretarial norms, and RPT frameworks.
- Analytical Rigor & Strategic Agility: Ability to deep-dive into granular plant costing data and seamlessly elevate it into a strategic, high-level presentation for investors.
- Visionary Thinking: Proven capability to transition smoothly from tactical day-to-day operations (like audit solving) to macro strategic planning and investor storytelling.
- Systems Knowledge: Strong proficiency in enterprise ERP environments (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics) to automate workflows, ensure data validation, and eliminate manual inventory tracking or reconciliation mismatches.

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