Assistant Manager – Sales Finance

Balance Sheet Review, Balance Sheets, BlackLine, Business Case Preparation, Commercial Transactions, Management Accounting, Presentation Skills, Presentations, Sales Finance, Statutory
March 11, 2024
Full Time

Job Description

About the job

Overview

MAIN PURPOSE:

  • Responsible for overall controls and Policies of Units and act as a support for North Unit Team
  • Responsible for month close activities for Commercial function and ensure timely books closure
  • Planning -AOP & Forecast for North Unit commercial AOP
  • Monthly governance of Market Audit & damage Audit of unit
  • Claim portal governance
  • Driving governance around GCS, approval matrix for the support extended to unit’s cross function team
  • To have Control Dashboard for the Commercial Function and ensure preparation of the same on monthly basis
  • Balance Sheet (blackline) review of HQ commercial Schedules and ensure completion
  • Help in closure of statutory Audit closure for the north unit commercial function
  • Help in closure of US GAAP Audit closure for the north unit commercial function

Responsibilities

KEY ACCOUNTABILITY

Business Partnering and Support – Operations/Backend Support

  • Monthly closure of North Unit books entries for any commercial transactions
  • Support unit sales team on any specific issues w.r.t understanding, policies and any guidelines
  • Strengthen the GCS and Controls related areas and ensure the key controls for the Commercial Function should not fall and any specific issues in processes and compliance need immediate action
  • Ensure accurate & timely review of Blackline for Unit commercial functions with correct schedule and proper data sanity
  • Support on statutory, Internal and US GAAP Audit for commercial function liaising with unit and locations and ensure closure of all the open points and ensure no major observation
  • Ensure processes are stabilized w.r.t Policies and compliances
  • Interact with IBM SSC on process change management & related communications
  • Invoice clearance for unit finance Vendors and ensure timely payment to them
  • Ensure month closure with no error and on timely basis by closing all the HQ entries and also ensure all the Sales Unit have closed the Financial with proper review mechanism

Management Reporting – Monthly Financial Reviews

  • Prepare Control Dashboard for Unit every month and ensure the Data Sanity and accuracy of the numbers. Also, have regular interaction with Unit on the lower KPIs to ensure best practices across Unit is simulated across other Unit
  • Timely submission of OCF Planning -AOP & Forecast for sector submissions and Internal assessment

Management Reporting – Operating Reviews

  • Ensure PEP Program & Other Visibility related IOs recon are done and ensure closure of the same

Audit and Compliance – Audits

  • Ensure all the Open PO and IO Items are reconciled and timely closed
  • Ensure all the A&M related controls Testing is working fine
  • Ensure all the controls w.r.t to Market Audit/Cut Off and other KPIs are been adhered at HQ and Unit Commercial

Special Projects – Process

  • Support on the BIS Project related to Commercial
  • Support on Policy Standardisation across Unit

Qualifications

KEY SKILLS & experience REQUIRED

Experience And Qualification

  • CA/MBA with 1-3 years of prior experience preferably in an FMCG or Big Audit and Consultancy firm
  • Experience in Commercial and Audit field
  • Experience in presenting business case, project case to business stakeholder
  • Require excellent communication skills
  • Require excellent analytical and presentation skills

Skills And Behavioural Attributes

  • Controls – The role should be capable of managing internal processes to optimize revenue, cost, cash flow and customer service and provide timely and accurate information for managing the Internal Controls for the function
  • Audit – This role should able look from an auditor’s view and ensure no processes and policies should fall. Taking the full ownership of all the external auditing related closure like Internal, Statutory and US GAAP
  • Financial Books Closure – The role should be capable of having a full control on the Actual Financial closure of the Commercial function with no delay and errors