– Assistant Manager – Finance (M1)

Department: Finance & Governance

Location: Calicut, Kerala

Reporting To: Director / Finance Leadership

About the Role:

We are looking for an ownership-driven and strategically oriented Assistant Manager – Finance to lead and strengthen the organization’s Finance function across Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A;), Finance Operations, Controllership, Business Finance, Compliance, Governance, Automation, and Strategic Finance initiatives .

The role will act as a key Finance partner to leadership and business teams, providing financial insights, challenging assumptions, identifying risks and opportunities, and enabling data-driven decisions.

This is not a purely accounting or transactional Finance role. The successful candidate will be expected to balance strategic thinking with strong execution , independently lead key Finance priorities, establish scalable financial mechanisms, strengthen controls and governance, improve financial visibility, and support sustainable business growth.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Financial Planning & Business Finance

- Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and short- and long-range financial planning.
- Build financial models, scenario analyses, and business cases to evaluate investments, resource requirements, and strategic initiatives.
- Analyze revenue, costs, margins, profitability, productivity, utilization, and key business drivers.
- Identify financial risks, trends, and opportunities and recommend appropriate actions to leadership.
- Partner with leadership on resource allocation, investments, and business priorities.
- Provide an independent financial perspective and constructively challenge assumptions where required.

1. Financial Analysis, Reporting & Decision Support

- Own budget-versus-actual and forecast-versus-actual analysis and identify underlying business drivers.
- Move beyond reporting variances to determine root causes, business implications, and corrective actions .
- Conduct profitability, cost-benefit, trend, scenario, and sensitivity analyses.
- Develop KPIs, dashboards, and forward-looking indicators to improve financial visibility.
- Translate complex financial information into clear executive-level insights and actionable recommendations.
- Present financial performance, risks, opportunities, cash flow, and key priorities to senior leadership.

1. Finance Governance, Controllership & Operations

- Strengthen financial governance and controllership across the organization.
- Oversee accounting, book closure, payroll finance coordination, vendor payments, receivables, bank and balance-sheet reconciliations, intercompany accounting, and financial reporting.
- Ensure accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closure.
- Establish effective controls around budgets, expenses, revenue/cost recognition, payments, reconciliations, and financial approvals.
- Identify control gaps and financial risks and drive corrective actions through closure.
- Establish process documentation, SLAs, operating metrics, backup ownership, and appropriate segregation of duties.
- Continuously improve Finance accuracy, turnaround time, scalability,



and operational discipline.

1. Cash Flow, Working Capital & Cost Management

- Own cash-flow monitoring, forecasting, and forward-looking liquidity planning.
- Monitor receivables, collections, vendor payments, and other working-capital components.
- Improve visibility into major cost drivers and identify measurable cost-optimization opportunities.
- Partner with business leaders to strengthen cost discipline and evaluate the financial value of expenditures and investments.
- Provide leadership with clear visibility into cash position, expected inflows/outflows, and financial risks.

1. Taxation, Audit & Statutory Compliance

- Ensure timely and accurate GST, TDS, SEZ, and other applicable statutory compliance .
- Coordinate statutory audits, tax audits, internal audits, and other financial reviews.
- Work with auditors, consultants, banks, authorities, and external agencies as required.
- Maintain strong audit readiness and ensure observations and corrective actions are tracked to closure.
- Proactively identify and escalate material compliance and financial-control risks.

1. Business Finance & Stakeholder Partnership

- Act as a Finance partner to Business Units, functional leaders, and senior leadership.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, pricing/commercial evaluations, investments, and resource-allocation decisions.
- Review the financial implications of major business initiatives before commitments are made.
- Influence stakeholders through financial data, business understanding, and commercial judgment, including where there is no direct reporting relationship.
- Communicate financial risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly and objectively.
- Drive agreed stakeholder actions through implementation and measurable outcomes.

1. Finance Transformation, Automation & Analytics

- Lead Finance transformation, process standardization, automation, and analytics initiatives.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Internal Systems teams to improve Finance workflows, reconciliations, reporting, dashboards, controls, and data flows.
- Identify opportunities to use AI, automation, analytics, and business intelligence to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy and scalability.
- Define Finance requirements, validation rules, data requirements, and governance controls for financial systems.
- Establish measurable improvements in Finance productivity, turnaround time, and reporting quality.

1. Finance Team Leadership

- Lead and manage the Finance team across operational, analytical, and strategic responsibilities.
- Establish clear priorities, KRAs/KPIs, ownership, and performance expectations.
- Review team outputs and maintain high standards of accuracy, quality, and accountability.
- Coach and develop team members in financial capability,



business understanding, analytical thinking, ownership, and problem-solving.
- Build backup ownership, cross-training, and succession plans to reduce dependency on individuals.
- Partner with HR and leadership on Finance hiring, onboarding, capability development, and performance management.

Preferred Candidate Profile Education
- CA / CMA / MBA Finance / M.Com or equivalent qualification.
- CA/CMA or a solid professional Finance qualification is preferred for candidates expected to lead the complete Finance function.

Experience
- 7–10 years of relevant Finance experience , preferably across FP&A;, Corporate Finance, Controllership, Accounting, Finance Operations, Audit, Compliance, or Business Finance.
- Demonstrated experience independently owning significant Finance responsibilities and managing a Finance team.
- Strong exposure to budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, management reporting, and business analysis.
- Experience partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience driving Finance transformation, automation, systems, or process-improvement initiatives.
- Experience in a technology, software, product, shared-services, or operationally complex organization is preferred.

Required Skills & Competencies Financial & Technical

- FP&A;, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
- Financial modelling, scenario analysis, and profitability analysis
- Management reporting and executive financial communication
- Cash-flow and working-capital management
- Cost optimization and financial controls
- Accounting, audit, taxation, and statutory compliance
- ERP/Finance systems, Advanced Excel, BI, analytics, and automation

Leadership & Behavioral

- High ownership and accountability
- Strategic thinking with strong execution
- Strong commercial and financial judgment
- Ability to dive deep and identify root causes
- Structured, data-driven problem-solving
- Ability to operate independently and manage ambiguity
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to challenge assumptions constructively
- Bias for action and ability to drive issues through closure
- Strong communication, people leadership, and mentoring capability
- High standards and continuous-improvement mindset

What Success Looks Like The successful candidate will:
- Establish Finance as a strategic business partner , not only an operational support function.
- Improve budgeting, forecasting, financial visibility, and leadership decision-making.
- Provide actionable insights on business performance, risks, opportunities, profitability, and investments.
- Strengthen financial governance, controllership, audit readiness, and statutory compliance.
- Improve cash-flow, working-capital, and cost management.
- Deliver accurate and timely Finance operations and reporting.
- Build scalable Finance processes and reduce dependency on individuals.
- Improve Finance productivity through automation, AI, analytics, and business intelligence.
- Build a capable, accountable, and high-performing Finance team.
- Successfully balance strategic Finance leadership with strong operational execution .

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