Manager Finance & Accounts

Position: Manager – Finance & Accounts

Department: Finance & Accounts

Location: Pondicherry

Reporting To: Head – Finance / Plant Head

Job Purpose To manage the end-to-end finance and accounting operations, ensure accurate monthly closing and reporting, manage P&L; and Balance Sheet activities, control provisions and SAP accounting, and ensure proper validation of vendor bills, purchase orders, and product costing.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage and supervise the Finance & Accounts team, allocating work and ensuring timely completion of activities.
- Handle end-to-end accounting and financial processes for the plant/business unit.
- Responsible for monthly closing activities, including P&L; and Balance Sheet finalization.
- Prepare and review monthly provisions, accruals, prepaid expenses, and other accounting adjustments in SAP.
- Ensure accurate accounting entries and reconciliation of General Ledger, vendor accounts, customer accounts, and other balance sheet accounts.
- Prepare and analyse monthly P&L;, Balance Sheet and financial MIS reports.
- Review financial variances and provide appropriate explanations and corrective actions.
- Handle product costing, including material, labour, overhead and other relevant cost components.
- Monitor and validate product cost sheets and costing calculations and ensure accuracy of cost data.
- Validate vendor invoices/bills against Purchase Orders, GRN, supporting documents and agreed commercial termsbefore processing.
- Ensure proper 3-way matching of PO, GRN and vendor invoice and identify discrepancies for resolution.
- Review purchase orders from a finance perspective and ensure compliance with approved commercial terms.




- Coordinate with Purchase, Stores, Production, Commercial and other departments for invoice discrepancies, costing and accounting matters.
- Monitor vendor balances, outstanding payments and account reconciliations.
- Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, company policies and internal financial controls.
- Support statutory, internal and external audits and provide required schedules and supporting documents.
- Identify opportunities for cost control, process improvement and financial efficiency.
- Ensure timely completion of all month-end and year-end financial activities.
- Prepare management reports and provide financial analysis to support business decisions.

Key Skills Required

- Solid knowledge of Financial Accounting and Management Accounting
- P&L; and Balance Sheet preparation & analysis
- SAP Finance/Controlling (FI/CO)
- Monthly closing and provision accounting
- Product costing and cost analysis
- Vendor invoice and PO validation
- Budgeting and variance analysis
- General Ledger and account reconciliation
- Internal controls and audit
- Team management and stakeholder coordination
- Advanced MS Excel and financial reporting skills

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

- Timely and accurate monthly financial closing
- Accuracy of P&L; and Balance Sheet
- Accuracy of monthly provisions and accruals
- Product costing accuracy
- Vendor invoice/PO compliance
- Timely resolution of accounting discrepancies
- Audit compliance and closure of audit observations
- Reduction in accounting errors and process deviations
- Effective team productivity and timely completion of finance activities

Regards,

Sowmiya

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📌 Manager Finance & Accounts (Puducherry)
🏢 AP Management Consultants
📍 Puducherry