Job Summary:
The Senior Manager Finance Operations will oversee all core finance processes, ensuring
efficiency, accuracy, and compliance across the organization. This role will be responsible
for financial operations including accounts payable/receivable, billing, revenue recognition,
payroll accounting, financial controls, and process automation.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Team Management & Supervision
- Lead, guide, and monitor a team of 8 members across accounts payable, MIS, reconciliation, and compliance functions.
- Allocate responsibilities, set expectations, and ensure deliverables are met as per defined KPIs and timelines.
- Conduct regular performance reviews and implement corrective measures where required.
2. Process Oversight & Internal Controls
- Review team deliverables such as payment processing, reconciliation statements, ledger scrutiny, and statutory workings to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Ensure strict adherence to internal financial controls and compliance checklists, including due diligence and audit readiness.
- Identify gaps or inefficiencies in existing processes and drive automation or improvement initiatives.
3. Compliance & Statutory Monitoring
- Oversee timely and accurate deposit and filing of statutory dues including TDS, PF, ESI, PT, and GST.
- Ensure proper reconciliation of statutory and salary payables with bank records for both permanent and contractual staff.
- Review all statutory workings prepared by the team and ensure filings are made within due dates.
4. Reporting & Forecasting
- Ensure timely preparation and review of MIS reports, dashboards, and financial trackers for internal management.
- Oversee forecasting and cash flow planning activities by consolidating inputs from various departments.
- Review and approve reconciliations related to sales, student collections, and payment gateway transactions.
5. Reconciliation & Financial Accuracy
- Ensure all bank, escrow, and offline payment reconciliations are reviewed and
discrepancies resolved promptly.
- Maintain oversight of daily reconciliation processes including student fee
collections, gateway, settlements, and offline POS/QR code tracking.
- Coordinate with the payment gateway and banking partners to ensure resolution of
issues like refunds, chargebacks, and failed transactions.
6. Stakeholder Coordination
- Liaise with auditors, lenders, and internal stakeholders for document submissions,
data sharing, and clarifications as needed.
- Provide necessary financial data and reports for audits, due diligence, and internal
reviews.
- Act as an escalation point for finance-related issues within the team.
7. Documentation & Audit Preparedness
- Ensure all financial documentation is maintained systematically and is readily available for audits, lender reviews, and internal scrutiny.
- Review document trails related to payments, loans, statutory filings, and reconciliations for completeness and compliance.
Required Skills and Qualification:
- CA Inter (cleared) with 10 to 18 years of experience in finance operations, preferably in a mid-sized or fast-paced organization.
- Proven ability to manage a multi-functional finance team with ownership of daily operations.
- Strong command over financial controls, reconciliations, Tally ERP, statutory filings, and MIS reporting.
- Excellent team leadership, communication, and coordination skills.
- Detail-oriented, with a structured approach to deadlines and compliance.
- Role involves hands-on team supervision, daily tracking of operational KPIs, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Suitable for candidates who can balance compliance, people management, and reporting efficiency in a dynamic setup.
