Manager - Finance & Accounts - Banking/Financial Services

Key responsibilities: 1. Financial Reporting & Monthly Closing: - Manage monthly, quarterly and annual financial closing activities. - Review Trial Balance, GL scrutiny, provisions, accruals, lease accounting entries and journal controls. - Ensure timely SAP period closure and compliance with accounting policies. - Monitor revenue, cost and profitability reporting with appropriate variance analysis. - Drive accuracy and completeness of financial statements and management reports. 2. Corporate reporting: - Manage monthly and quarterly corporate submissions including Trial Balance uploads, Notes to Accounts, Cash Flow Statements and disclosures. - Ensure successful completion of Inter company reporting and matching, GL validations and other corporate reporting requirements. 3. Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning: - Support annual budgeting and periodic forecasting/estimates. - Monitor budget performance and provide business insights through variance analysis. - Manage inter-division cost allocations and budget uploads. 4. MIS & Business Performance Management: - Prepare monthly MIS, Flash Reports and business performance dashboards. - Variance Analysis with Budgets and forecast. - Support leadership reviews with actionable business insights. - Enhance reporting automation and improve MIS efficiency. 5. Sales & Revenue Assurance: - Perform sales reconciliation between accounting records, costing systems and business MIS. - Prepare Sales MIS. - Conduct sales variance analysis against Budget, Previous Year and Forecast. - Ensure accuracy of revenue reporting and related controls. 6. Intercompany & Related Party Accounting: - Coordinate Related Party Transaction (RPT) reporting and compliance. - Support corporate reporting requirements relating to ICP and RPT transactions. 7. Internal Controls, Audit & Compliance: - Support statutory audit, IFC testing and internal audit requirements. - Manage and control compliance activities. - Strengthen financial controls and governance processes. 8. Stakeholder Management: - Partner with Business Teams, Corporate Finance, Auditors, Shared Services. - Provide timely financial insights to support decision-making. - Drive finance process improvements and standardization initiatives.