Finance Manager - Manufacturing Finance - D2C - CA

About Company:

Company is a fast-growing D2C furniture and home interiors brand focused on offering stylish, affordable, and design-led products through an omnichannel model.

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Accounting & Financial Reporting:

• Ensure accurate and timely accounting & compliances like GST, TDS, etc.
• Ensure accurate and timely preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Maintain compliance with applicable accounting standards - Ind AS.
• Oversee general ledger, reconciliations, and monthly closing processes.

2. Manufacturing Finance:

• Monitor cost of production, BOM variance, consumption and inventory valuation.
• Track plant-level performance - yield, wastage, overhead absorption.
• Partner with operations team to improve cost efficiency.

3. Trading Business Finance:

• Manage margin analysis, pricing controls, and discount structures.
• Monitor inventory turnover and working capital cycles.
• Ensure profitability tracking across SKUs and channels.

4. Working Capital & Cash Flow Management:

• Optimize receivables, payables, and inventory levels.
• Prepare cash flow forecasts and ensure liquidity management.
• Work closely with sales and procurement teams on credit policies.
• Treasury Management.

5. Compliance & Controls:

• Ensure compliance with GST, TDS, Income tax, and other statutory regulations.
• Manage audits - internal, statutory, tax audits.
• Strengthen internal financial controls and SOPs.
• Secretarial compliances, RBI.

6. Team Management:

• Lead and mentor finance and accounts team of 8 - 10.
• Ensure process discipline and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with operations, sales, and supply chain.

7. MIS & Business Support:

• Prepare annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and variance analysis.
• Develop dashboards for management reporting.
• Provide actionable insights to leadership for decision-making.
• Support strategic initiatives such as expansion, pricing, and cost restructuring.
• Prepare MIS for Management and investors in strict timelines.

Qualifications:

CA/CMA with 3 to 5 years of experience in similar roles from any industry or mid-sized CA firms.

Strong understanding of:

• Accounting, Balance Sheet.
• Costing and inventory accounting.
• Working capital cycles.
• GST and regulatory compliance.
• Proficiency in ERP systems - ERP Next, Odoo, SAP, Oracle, Tally or similar, Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.

Key Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Commercial mindset with attention to detail.
• Ability to work closely with operations and business teams.
• Leadership and stakeholder management.