Finance Controller - Accounts & Finance

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• Oversee complete finance, accounting, and commercial activities for the manufacturing plant, ensuring strong financial discipline and control.
• Prepare and analyse monthly financial reports, MIS, P&L statements, balance sheet schedules, and plant performance reports.
• Lead the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting process, tracking actual performance against budgets and identifying key variances.
• Analyse manufacturing expenses, conversion costs, material consumption, overheads, and operational costs to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Manage plant-level working capital, inventory, receivables, payables, cash flows, and CAPEX to optimise financial resources.
• Drive timely monthly and year-end financial closure, ensuring accuracy of provisions, accruals, reconciliations, and accounting entries.
• Ensure timely circulation of detailed MIS reports by the 7th of the subsequent month, covering Business Unit-wise profitability, P&L, working capital, and balance sheet analysis.
• Monitor statutory requirements relating to GST, TDS, income tax, labour-related financial compliances, audits, and other applicable regulations.
• Review inventory accounting, stock valuation, material consumption, ageing, provisions, and reconciliation between physical and book records.
• Work closely with Production, Procurement, Stores, Supply Chain, and Operations teams to improve cost management and operational profitability.
• Drive effective use of SAP for financial accounting, cost tracking, inventory management, procurement, and plant-related transactions.
• Establish and monitor financial controls, approval mechanisms, reconciliation processes, and risk mitigation measures across plant operations.
• Lead coordination with statutory, internal, tax, and external auditors and ensure closure of audit findings within agreed timelines.
• Provide business-oriented financial insights, profitability analysis, cost trends, and actionable recommendations to Plant Head and senior management.