15 Oct
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Licious
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Bengaluru
We are Licious and we are a Bengaluru based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, our founders, foodies and friends. We pride ourselves on being India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand operating in 14 cities across the country delighting over 50 lac customers with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood!
Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on…
Here is your chance to build and lead a centralised Sourcing Accounts and Procurement Operations function from the ground up, bringing discipline, accuracy and visibility to how India’s leading D2C fresh meat and seafood brand buys, stores and pays.
What makes the role meaty?
1. Branch Accounts Management and SAP Compliance
- Manage and monitor accounts executives deployed at chicken farming branch offices.
- Ensure timely and accurate recording of all purchase and sales transactions in SAP.
- Establish standard operating procedures, transaction cut-off times and daily closure mechanisms for all branches.
- Ensure appropriate documentation for purchases, sales, goods receipts, invoices, stock movements and related transactions.
- Monitor pending entries, transaction errors, mismatches and unresolved exceptions, ensuring timely closure.
- Coordinate with farm operations, sourcing, logistics, quality and finance teams to resolve discrepancies between physical transactions and SAP records.
- Conduct periodic reviews of branch-level transaction accuracy, compliance and productivity.
2. Centralised Procurement Operations and PO Management
- Establish and lead a centralised procurement support desk serving all operating locations and sourcing categories.
- Track the Annual Procurement Plan (APP), approved procurement requirements and purchase requisitions, ensuring visibility of planned versus actual procurement.
- Coordinate with category sourcing teams to validate approved requirements, quantities, rates, vendor details and applicable commercial terms.
- Ensure timely creation of purchase orders in SAP against duly approved procurement requirements.
- Manage PO amendments, cancellations, pending approvals, open purchase orders and closure of completed orders.
- Ensure purchase orders are released in accordance with the delegation of authority and procurement policies.
- Establish standard workflows and service-level agreements for PO creation and related SAP activities.
- Monitor pending procurement requests and escalate delays that may affect supply continuity.
- Categories covered: Eggs, Chicken, Mutton,
Fish and Seafood across all operating locations.
3. SAP Inventory Management and Liquidation
- Ensure timely and accurate recording of inventory receipts, issues, transfers, consumption, adjustments and other authorised stock movements.
- Monitor SAP stock balances against physical stock records and operational reports.
- Coordinate periodic physical stock verification and investigate inventory variances.
- Track ageing inventory, obsolete or non-moving stock, unconsumed inventory and open stock-related transactions.
- Drive timely liquidation or accounting closure of identified inventory, in coordination with category, operations and finance teams.
- Ensure inventory adjustments, write-offs and liquidation transactions have appropriate approvals and supporting documentation.
- Monitor open GR/IR items, pending goods receipts, invoice mismatches and other unresolved SAP transactions, where applicable.
- Maintain clear visibility of stock ageing, reconciliation status, unresolved variances and corrective actions by location and category.
4. Al-Jalil Accounts and Payment Management
- Own the operational coordination and reconciliation of Al-Jalil accounts.
- Maintain an updated tracker of supplier invoices, debit and credit notes, outstanding balances, payments due and payment status.
- Reconcile purchase transactions, invoices, applicable claims and supporting documentation with relevant internal teams and the supplier.
- Identify and resolve discrepancies in rates, quantities, weights, invoices, deductions and outstanding balances.
- Coordinate with Finance and Accounts Payable to ensure that validated invoices are processed for payment within agreed timelines.
- Monitor overdue balances and pending documentation, escalating issues that could disrupt supplier relationships or supply continuity.
- Prepare periodic outstanding, ageing, reconciliation and payment MIS for management review.
5. Management MIS and Reporting
- Publish daily, weekly and monthly MIS covering:
- APP versus actual procurement.
- Purchase orders created, pending approval and outstanding.
- SAP transaction posting compliance across branches.
- Purchase and sales transaction accuracy.
- Inventory balances, ageing, liquidation and reconciliation.
- Vendor outstanding balances and payment due dates.
- Al-Jalil account reconciliation and payment status.
- Open GR/IR items and other pending SAP transactions.
- Team productivity, SLA adherence and unresolved exceptions.
- Establish standard dashboards with clear ownership, ageing, root causes and closure dates.
- Automate repetitive reporting using advanced Excel and Power BI wherever feasible.
- Present key exceptions, financial exposure, process gaps and corrective actions to the Head of Sourcing.
6. Team Leadership and Process Improvement
- Recruit, train and manage the central procurement support team and coordinate the branch accounts executive network.
- Define responsibilities, transaction volumes, productivity benchmarks and turnaround times for each team member.
- Establish maker-checker controls, approval matrices, documentation standards and escalation protocols.
- Conduct periodic performance reviews and capability-building sessions.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, duplicate entries, transaction errors and reconciliation backlogs.
- Work closely with Sourcing, Finance, Farm Operations, Processing, Logistics, Quality and SAP/IT teams to improve end-to-end process discipline.
- Ensure readiness for internal audits and compliance reviews, with complete documentation and traceability.
We hope that you have..
- Graduate or postgraduate qualification in Commerce, Finance or Business Administration.
- 7–10 years of relevant experience in procurement operations, supply-chain accounts, commercial operations, inventory accounting or shared services.
- Strong hands-on SAP experience, particularly SAP MM and its integration with FI.
- Demonstrated experience managing purchase orders, supplier invoices, inventory transactions and account reconciliations.
- Experience leading a team of accounts executives, procurement coordinators or transaction-processing personnel.
- Advanced Excel skills, including PivotTables, lookups, reconciliation tools and reporting automation.
- Solid written and verbal communication, analytical skills and follow-up discipline.
- Experience in poultry, food processing, meat, seafood, dairy, agriculture or FMCG.
- Experience in SAP S/4HANA or ECC, Power BI and workflow-based procurement operations.
- Knowledge of GST documentation, invoice verification, GR/IR reconciliation and audit controls.
- Experience managing multi-location operations and high-volume daily transactions.
- CA Inter, CMA Inter or an MBA in Finance as an additional advantage.
📌 Accounts Manager ( Procurement) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Licious
📍 Bengaluru