Chartered Accountant

**Role & responsibilities** **A. Accounting & Financial Reporting** - Lead the month end and year end closing process in SAP, ensuring timely and accurate submission of financial statements to group HQ by the second working day of each month. - Lead monthly/year-end SAP closing and timely Group reporting. - Supervise accounting operations, reconciliations, provisions and financial statements. - Ensure compliance with Accounting Standards and accurate accounting of imports, inventory, landed costs, FX and related transactions. - Manage annual CapEx budget and quarterly forecasts. **B. Direct Tax, GST & Customs** - Manage TDS/TCS, advance tax, provisions, tax audits, ITRs, assessments and withholding tax. - Ensure GST compliance, reconciliations, ITC, e-invoicing, imports, credit/debit notes and commercial schemes. - Handle customs/import accounting, duty, classification, valuation and landed-cost analysis. - Coordinate with tax, customs and external advisors and proactively identify tax/compliance risks. **C. Dealer Receivables & Working Capital** - Monitor collections across the 100+ dealer network and identify overdue/high-risk accounts. - Work with Sales to drive collections, manage credit limits and escalate potential bad debts. - Monitor deductions, claims, credit/debit notes and optimise the cash conversion cycle. - Be comfortable challenging commercial decisions that adversely impact cash flow. **D. Pricing & Margin Management** - Analyse SKU-wise margins considering purchase cost, customs, freight, FX, discounts, dealer margins, schemes and logistics. - Support pricing, discount and incentive decisions and monitor product/customer/channel profitability. - Identify low-margin products and assess the financial impact of price changes. **E. Budgeting & Management Reporting** - Support annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and monthly Actual vs Budget analysis. - Analyse variances across revenue, margins, Opex, EBITDA, working capital, inventory and cash flow. - Prepare management reports for India and German HQ, providing actionable business insights and challenging assumptions. **F. Audit & Internal Controls** - Coordinate statutory, tax and internal audits and ensure timely closure of observations. - Strengthen controls over sales, credit, collections, inventory, pricing, expenses and payments. - Ensure compliance with policies and develop/improve SOPs where required. **Essential** - Qualified Chartered Accountant. - Approximately 4 - 5 years of post-qualification experience. - Strong Excel and financial analysis skills. - Exposure to SAP based accounting. - Strong analytical and problem-solving ability. - Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills. - Ability to work independently and take ownership. **Preferred** Experience in any of the following would be an advantage: - Trading / distribution - Consumer products / FMCG / sanitaryware - Import-oriented business - Dealer/distributor network - B2C business - Pricing and margin analysis - German / European multinational environment