Who You’ll Be Working With

You will lead the Finance & Accounts function and report directly to the Managing Director. You will work closely with the senior leadership team, business heads, department heads, and other key stakeholders across Television, Digital, OTT, Events, and emerging business verticals.

You will also collaborate with internal teams, statutory and internal auditors, banking partners, tax consultants, and external financial stakeholders to strengthen financial performance, governance, and operational efficiency.

What You’ll Be Doing

- Strategic Financial Leadership: Develop and implement the organisation's financial strategy in alignment with its long-term business objectives, growth plans, and expansion initiatives.
- Business Partnership: Act as a strategic financial advisor to the Managing Director and senior leadership team, providing financial insights and recommendations to support business decisions, investments, and capital allocation.
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A;): Lead annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, rolling forecasts, financial planning, and performance analysis across all business verticals.
- Business Performance & Profitability: Develop profitability dashboards and financial performance reports across business units, platforms, and products. Identify opportunities for revenue growth, cost optimization, and margin improvement.
- ROI & Investment Analysis: Evaluate the financial viability, return on investment, and commercial feasibility of new business initiatives, strategic investments, and capital expenditure.
- Accounting & Financial Reporting: Oversee accurate accounting, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closures, financial statements, management reporting, and timely submission of financial information.
- MIS & Management Reporting: Strengthen management information systems and develop meaningful financial dashboards, reports, and business insights to support leadership decision-making.
- Working Capital & Treasury Management: Optimize cash flow, working capital, fund utilization, liquidity planning, cash forecasting, and banking relationships.
- Taxation & Statutory Compliance: Ensure compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, including Income Tax, GST, TDS, Companies Act, and other relevant financial regulations.
- Audit & Financial Governance: Lead statutory, tax, and internal audits while strengthening internal financial controls, accounting policies, compliance frameworks, and governance practices.
- Commercial Finance: Analyze revenue and profitability across Television, Digital, OTT, Events, and emerging business segments. Support business teams in evaluating advertising, sponsorship, subscription, content monetization, pricing, and commercial opportunities.
- Finance Transformation & Automation: Lead finance automation, process digitization, ERP optimization, and technology-driven initiatives to improve accuracy, efficiency, transparency, and reporting capabilities.
- Process Improvement: Simplify existing finance processes, improve month-end closing efficiency, standardize SOPs, and establish effective financial workflows across the organization.
- Procurement & Cost Governance:



Establish financial controls over procurement and capital expenditure, review vendor governance, analyse spending patterns, and strengthen approval mechanisms and cost discipline.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and develop the Finance & Accounts team, strengthen second-line leadership, build succession plans, and foster a culture of accountability, integrity, and continuous improvement.
- Strategic Leadership Readiness: Contribute to building a modern, scalable Finance function and develop the organisational capabilities required to take on broader CFO-level responsibilities over time.

Must Have Skills

- Strong expertise in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A;), Corporate Accounting, Budgeting, and Forecasting.
- Extensive experience in financial strategy, business finance, commercial finance, and profitability analysis.
- Strong knowledge of treasury operations, cash flow management, working capital optimization, and fund utilization.
- Expertise in taxation, statutory compliance, financial reporting, audit management, and internal financial controls.
- Ability to evaluate business performance, investment proposals, capital expenditure, and return on investment.
- Strong understanding of commercial finance across multiple business verticals, including revenue analysis, pricing, cost optimization, and profitability improvement.
- Experience in ERP implementation, utilization, finance automation, and process digitization.
- Proficiency in Advanced Excel, MIS reporting, and financial dashboard development.
- Working knowledge of ERP and financial systems such as Zoho, SAP, Oracle, or equivalent platforms.
- Knowledge of Power BI or other Business Intelligence tools for financial analysis and reporting.
- Strong strategic thinking, commercial judgment, and executive-level decision-making capabilities.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- High standards of integrity, financial discipline, accountability, and governance.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful (Requirements)

- Chartered Accountant (CA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) – Mandatory.
- 15–20 years of progressive experience in Finance & Accounts, with a minimum of 8 years in a senior leadership position.
- Proven experience in leading Finance & Accounts functions and managing large-scale financial operations.
- Demonstrated ability to build, strengthen, or transform finance functions rather than focusing only on routine accounting and compliance activities.
- Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, FP&A;, financial reporting, treasury, taxation, and financial governance.
- Experience partnering with senior management and business leaders on strategic financial decisions, investments, and business performance.
- Ability to balance financial governance, compliance,



and control with business enablement and growth.
- Experience in managing and developing finance teams, mentoring senior professionals, and building leadership succession.
- Ability to work effectively in a promoter-led organization and manage complex stakeholder relationships.
- Strong analytical, strategic, and problem-solving capabilities with a data-driven approach to decision-making.

Nice to Have Skills

- Experience in Media, Broadcasting, Digital Media, Entertainment, OTT, Publishing, or Advertising industries.
- MBA in Finance.
- Professional certifications in Treasury Management, Risk Management, IFRS, or ERP implementation.
- Experience in managing finance functions across multiple business units, subsidiaries, or diversified business operations.
- Exposure to Power BI, financial analytics, business intelligence, and automated reporting systems.
- Experience in finance transformation, ERP implementation, process re-engineering, and organizational change management.
- Strong understanding of commercial models involving advertising revenue, sponsorships, subscriptions, content monetization, and digital business operations.
- Experience in succession planning and developing second-line finance leadership.

Need Another Reason to Hit the “Apply” Button? This is an opportunity to lead and shape the future of Finance at one of Eastern India's leading integrated media organizations.

As the General Manager – Finance & Accounts, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the Managing Director and senior leadership team, influence strategic business decisions, strengthen financial governance, modernize finance systems, and drive business performance across multiple verticals.

Beyond managing the Finance function, you will play a significant role in building a future-ready finance organization and developing the capabilities required for broader CFO-level leadership.

If you are a strategic finance professional with solid commercial acumen, leadership experience, and the ability to drive financial transformation, we would love to hear from you.

Apply now and be part of the OTV journey!

Requirements

- Chartered Accountant (CA) qualification from ICAI is mandatory.
- 15–20 years of progressive experience in Finance & Accounts.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in a senior finance leadership role.
- Proven experience in leading Finance & Accounts functions and managing large-scale financial operations.
- Strong expertise in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A;), budgeting, forecasting, corporate accounting, taxation, treasury, and financial reporting.
- Experience in strategic financial planning, business partnering, profitability analysis, and investment evaluation.
- Demonstrated experience in finance transformation, ERP implementation, process automation, and digitisation.
- Strong knowledge of statutory compliance, internal controls, audit management, and financial governance.
- Experience in managing finance teams, developing leadership capabilities, and succession planning.
- Ability to work closely with the Managing Director, senior leadership, and business heads.
- Strong analytical, commercial, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management capabilities.

📌 GM Finance (Bhubaneswar)
🏢 Odisha Television Network
📍 Bhubaneswar