Assistant Manager Finance

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Manage accounting operations, ledger reconciliations, accruals, provisions, and supporting schedules across entities and currencies.
• Support month-end close, cost allocation, outstanding-item reconciliations, and audit-ready records.
• Manage procure-to-pay, including invoice validation, approvals, payments, reconciliations, and vendor queries.
• Monitor purchase orders, invoice ageing, statements of account, due dates, liabilities, and blocked invoices.
• Oversee vendor onboarding, master data, payment controls, relationships, and escalations.
• Support cash flow planning and coordinate banking, payment execution, and transaction issue resolution.
• Support commercial purchasing and procurement in line with budgets, purchase orders, contractual terms, and Delegation of Authority.
• Develop and maintain SOPs; identify process improvement, standardization, and automation opportunities.
• Maintain dashboards and trackers for accounts payable ageing, vendor performance, payment commitments, and process efficiency.
• Supervise junior team members and identify cost, vendor-term, and working-capital improvements while maintaining accounting policies and controls.

Qualifications

• CA, CMA, MBA in Finance, or equivalent qualification.
• Approximately 5–6 years of relevant experience in accounting, procure-to-pay, vendor management, and finance operations.
• Logistics, supply chain, retail, or other operationally intensive industry experience is preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, month-end closure, reconciliations, cash flow planning, and internal financial controls.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Power Query, presentation tools, and ERP/accounting systems; workflow automation and reporting tools are an advantage.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, communication, stakeholder management, and vendor relationship skills.
• Ability to supervise junior team members, manage competing priorities, and drive process improvements while maintaining financial governance.

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