Assistant Manager Finance

Location: Mumbai | Work arrangement: On-site

The Opportunity:

A well-established international organization is looking to appoint an Assistant Manager – Finance to its Mumbai finance team.

This is a hands-on role suited to a qualified Chartered Accountant who enjoys owning core finance activities while working closely with business and regional stakeholders. The position offers exposure across financial reporting, planning, controls, audit, cash flow management and business partnering.

The successful candidate will be expected to combine strong accounting fundamentals with commercial awareness and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Accounting & Reporting

• Manage key activities relating to month-end and year-end financial close.
• Review and post accounting entries and ensure completeness and accuracy of financial records.
• Prepare periodic financial reports and management information within agreed reporting timelines.
• Support annual budgeting and periodic forecasting exercises.
• Analyze actual performance against budgets and forecasts and highlight material variances.

Controls, Audit & Compliance

• Coordinate requirements for statutory and internal audits, including preparation of schedules, reconciliations and supporting documentation.
• Support the organization's internal financial control framework and ensure adherence to established finance processes.
• Assist with tax-related reporting, transfer pricing requirements and other statutory finance deliverables.
• Work with external auditors, tax consultants and professional advisors as required.

Management & Regional Reporting

• Prepare recurring and ad-hoc reports for management and regional finance stakeholders.
• Analyze financial information and provide clear explanations for movements, trends and variances.
• Respond to finance-related queries from internal stakeholders and support management decision-making with relevant analysis.

Working Capital & Intercompany

• Own intercompany reconciliations and follow through on outstanding differences with relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare cash flow reports and track actual cash movements against plans.
• Support working-capital monitoring and identify areas requiring management attention.

Finance Operations & Systems

• Provide oversight of finance-related master data, including customer, supplier and product/item records.
• Partner with commercial and operational teams to resolve master-data and finance-process queries.
• Work effectively with ERP and financial reporting systems and contribute to process improvements and automation initiatives.

Business Partnering

• Partner with functional and business leaders on financial analysis and decision support.
• Translate financial information into practical insights for non-finance stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen controls, improve processes and increase reporting efficiency.
• Support other corporate finance and governance activities when required.

Candidate Profile:

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) – mandatory.
• 2–6 years of post-qualification experience in finance, controllership, reporting or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Good exposure to statutory audit, internal controls and compliance requirements.
• Comfortable working with ERP and financial reporting systems; experience with a large-scale ERP environment would be advantageous.
• Strong Excel and analytical capabilities.
• Able to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Detail-oriented, accountable and comfortable taking ownership of deliverables.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to move beyond reporting numbers to explaining what they mean for the business.

Application Details:

When applying, please include your Current CTC, Expected CTC, and Notice Period in your CV.

Please note that compensation for this role is within a defined range, and candidates whose expectations are aligned with the position will be prioritized.

Why Consider This Role

The position offers the opportunity to work in an international business environment with exposure to regional stakeholders and a broad finance remit. It would particularly suit a CA looking to build experience beyond core accounting into financial analysis, controls, business partnering and process improvement.

Interested qualified CAs may apply with an updated CV along with the details requested above.

This is a confidential recruitment exercise. Further information regarding the organization and reporting structure will be shared with shortlisted candidates at the appropriate stage.