Associate Operations Lead - RTR Operations

UPL is focused on emerging as a premier global provider of total crop solutions designed to secure the worlds long-term food supply. Winning farmers hearts across the globe, while leading the way with innovative products and services that make agriculture sustainable, UPL is the fastest growing company in the industry. UPL has a rich history of 50+ years with presence in 120+ countries. Based on the recognition that humankind is one community, UPLs overarching commitment is to improve areas of its presence, workplace, and customer engagement

Responsibilities:

Accountable to provide overall leadership and supervision to RTR teams regarding Finance management, and financial reporting for India Team

• Accountable to Design and implement best practices and processes with effective control & monitoring of finances to ensure compliance and data integrity

• Accountable to optimize the end-to-end service and employee cost within the team.

• Add value through positive impact on P&L and balance sheets at UPL level.

• Accountable for the design & implementation of standard global processes, polices and controls to ensure process performance meets or exceeds SLAs

• To work closely with support functions including Payroll, Accounting and finance, Tax, and Treasury

• Accountable to work hand in hand with Finance Operations vertical and help in determining financial outcome by collecting operational Data / Reports, whilst conducting Analysis and Reconciling transactions

• Accountable for the team to perform monthly closing activities including month end accruals

• Drive innovation and automation of the existing process to bring efficiency in the end-to-end process.

• Accountable to Identify and implement improvements in processes, systems and make recommendations to improve the efficiency and service levels of the team.

• Accountable for grooming the team members as per their aspirations and enabling them with tools and trainings to perform the role better.

• Develop robust talent of team members, Regular Training to team members, Internal role transfer readiness framework and creating backup for critical roles.

Requirements:

12+ years experience in managing RTR India team with a minimum of 4 years in a manufacturing industry (steel, energy, cement, chemical, pharma etc)

• Strong understanding of leading Finance practices and related ERP (SAP)

• Strong understanding of Tax, GST and Statutory financial and accounting transactions, experience in SAP & Advance Excel & respective Accounting Standard (GAAP) Knowledge is essential.