Job Description:FP&A & Accounts Receivable Lead
Location:Gurgaon
Experience:10–12 Years
Function:Finance & Accounts
Reporting To: CFO
Role Overview
We are looking for a strong finance professional to lead Financial Planning & Analysis and Accounts Receivable. The role will be responsible for budgeting, forecasting, business performance analysis, revenue reporting, receivables management, collections monitoring, and providing actionable insights to business and leadership teams.
The ideal candidate should have strong analytical capability, excellent understanding of financial controls, hands-on experience in AR management, and the ability to work closely with business, sales, retail, e-commerce, operations, and finance teams.
Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Planning & Analysis
- Drive the annual budgeting and forecasting process in coordination with business and finance teams.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial performance reports.
- Analyse revenue, margins, costs, profitability, working capital, and cash flow trends.
- Track actual performance against budget and highlight key variances with reasons.
- Prepare business dashboards, MIS reports, and leadership review presentations.
- Support management with decision-making through financial modelling and scenario analysis.
- Review cost structures and identify opportunities for cost optimisation.
- Partner with business teams for sales planning, margin improvement, and profitability tracking.
- Monitor key business KPIs and provide insights on performance gaps.
- Support strategic planning, AOP, business reviews, and board-level reporting.
2. Accounts Receivable Management
- Own the complete AR process, including invoicing, collections, reconciliations, ageing analysis, and dispute resolution.
- Monitor outstanding receivables and ensure timely collections.
- Prepare customer-wise, channel-wise, and ageing-wise receivable reports.
- Track overdue amounts and work with business teams for recovery action.
- Ensure regular reconciliation of customer accounts, credit notes, debit notes, claims, and deductions.
- Review AR ageing and highlight high-risk accounts to management.
- Ensure proper accounting of receipts, adjustments, and write-offs as per company policy.
- Coordinate with sales, retail, franchise, e-commerce, and commercial teams for collection follow-ups.
- Strengthen controls around billing, collections, credit exposure, and customer outstanding.
- Support audits by providing AR schedules, reconciliations, confirmations, and related documentation.
3. MIS, Controls & Process Improvement
- Prepare accurate and timely MIS reports for senior management.
- Build robust dashboards for revenue, receivables, collections, working capital, and business performance.
- Improve reporting quality, automation, and data accuracy.
- Identify gaps in finance processes and recommend corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with internal financial controls and audit requirements.
- Work closely with ERP, IT, and business teams to improve system-based reporting.
- Support month-end and year-end closing activities.
- Ensure timely closure of audit queries related to FP&A and AR.
Required Skills & Competencies
- Strong understanding of FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, MIS, and business analytics.
- Hands-on experience in Accounts Receivable, collections, reconciliations, and ageing control.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong business partnering ability with cross-functional teams.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.
- Experience in ERP systems; SAP/Oracle/Tally/other ERP exposure preferred.
- Strong presentation skills with ability to prepare leadership-level reports.
- High attention to detail and strong control mindset.
- Ability to work under timelines and manage multiple priorities.
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
Qualification
- CA / MBA Finance / CMA / M.Com with strong relevant experience.
- 10–12 years of experience in FP&A, Accounts Receivable, MIS, financial reporting, or commercial finance.
- Experience in retail, apparel, FMCG, consumer goods, e-commerce, or multi-location business will be preferred.
Preferred Industry Background
- Retail
- Apparel / Fashion
- FMCG
- Consumer Goods
- E-commerce
- Distribution-led businesses
Key Deliverables
- Timely and accurate budget, forecast, and MIS reporting.
- Strong control over receivables and ageing.
- Improved collection discipline and reduced overdue outstanding.
- Actionable business insights for leadership decision-making.
- Stronger financial controls and audit-ready documentation.
- Better visibility on revenue, profitability, working capital, and cash flow.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The candidate should be a mature finance professional with a balanced exposure to business finance, FP&A, MIS, and Accounts Receivable. The person should be comfortable working with senior leadership, managing large data sets, identifying financial risks, and driving business accountability through numbers.
