Title: Senior Manager Finance & Accounts

The Company: It is a growing FMCG/food manufacturing business with an integrated supply chain, expanding sales operations and a robust focus on disciplined financial management.

The Role: Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will lead the day-to-day Finance & Accounts function, ensuring financial accuracy, timely reporting, strong controls and statutory compliance. You will also work closely with the Head of Sales and business teams on profitability, collections, working capital and financial performance.

Key Responsibilities:

- Financial Management: Lead accounting operations, month-end closing, P&L;, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and MIS reporting.
- FP&A; & Business Reporting: Support budgeting, forecasting and monthly/mid-month sales and gross-profit projections; identify and explain key financial variances.
- Profitability Intelligence: Drive container-level and SKU-level costing and profitability analysis, including landed cost, purchase price, freight, exchange-rate impact and margin variations.
- Collections & Working Capital: Monitor customer aging, collection commitments, receivables, inventory and payables; work closely with Sales to improve collections and cash flow.
- Controls & Compliance: Ensure timely GST, TDS, income tax and other statutory compliance, along with strong reconciliations, documentation and audit readiness.
- ERP & MIS:



Ensure accurate ERP transactions and master data while improving financial reporting, BI/MIS dashboards and process automation.
- Team Leadership: Manage and develop the Finance team, establish daily/weekly/monthly operating routines and ensure timely completion of all Finance deliverables.

Candidate Requirements:

- Education: Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Accounting, Finance or related discipline. CA Inter / CMA Inter / M. Com / MBA Finance preferred.
- Experience: 8 12 years of Finance & Accounts experience, with proven supervisory/team-management responsibility.
- Industry Exposure: Preferred experience in FMCG, food processing, manufacturing, commodity trading or distribution.
- Technical Skillset: Strong hands-on experience in accounting, month-end closing, financial reporting, reconciliations, GST/TDS/taxation, ERP, advanced Excel and BI/MIS reporting.
- Business Skillset: Strong experience in SKU/product costing, gross-margin analysis, inventory accounting, sales forecasting, customer collections and working-capital management.
- Preferred Exposure: Experience with imports, foreign currency transactions, landed-cost calculations and statutory/tax audits.
- Mettle: A hands-on finance leader who takes ownership, challenges unusual numbers, identifies issues early and works with cross-functional teams to drive closure.

📌 Senior Finance Manager (India)
🏢 CIEL HR
📍 India