Finance Manager

• Carry out project assessment of actuals vs budget and liaise with operations and estimation team to
• understand and report variances

• Prepare weekly project update report of actuals vs budget
• Financial closing of projects in IFS and revenue recognition
• Maintain balance sheet integrity and reconcile general ledger accounts.
• Create and maintain internal control and implement new policies and procedures
• Responsible for local year end financial audit, tax audit and Tax Return
• Oversee indirect tax related matters and provide guidance where necessary
• Liaise with Company Secretary for company related compliances
• Oversee Payroll, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Indirect Tax matters
• Oversee Banking and Customs related compliance

Qualification & Experience

• Strong financial accounting skills and commercial understanding of business drivers
• Ability to collaborate with senior management and board members.
• Ideally 2-3 years of experience in Chartered Accounting Firm or Internal Financial Audit
• Experience in international companies desirable
• Overall 10+ years of experience post qualification
• Experience in local banking, import and export compliance is necessary
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Commerce is required
• Experience in large ERP system like SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle is necessary
• Highly proficient in English
• Excellent excel skills. Good in other Microsoft software
• Excellent communication, Time management and problem solving skills

The Role

• The Finance Manager is responsible for leading finance operations, strengthening internal controls, supporting
• regional business units, and ensuring consistent financial governance across India, MEA, and APAC regions. The
• role oversees finance teams, shared services, policies, reporting, audits, ERP improvements, commercial
• evaluations, and statutory compliance in alignment with corporate strategy.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of up to 10 finance and shared service staff.
• Create and roll out business process outsourcing from NL and the surrounding MEA,APAC region to

India and build an appropriate shared service team in India.

• Support in-country General Managers of other entities in MEA and APAC region to help roll out

corporate strategy and build and evaluate investments, expansion other strategic business case.

• Create new policies and efficiency plans, both systems based and procedural alignment for India
• Prepare monthly, Quarterly forecast, long term planning and scenario modelling for each region

including P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow modelling.

• Drive IFS (ERP) improvement and automation and adaptation.
• Streamline finance reporting across countries, like standardising way of working, and reporting in our

ERP and Finance programs

• Liaise with Corporate Disciplines (Legal, Tax, Treasury, Insurance) and local

• subject matter experts
• where necessary

• Carry out Internal audit of processes for GL/Finance related matters
• Estimate/Proposal and undertake commercial and financial risk evaluationof all proposal >€ 100k
• Establishing and monitoring the alignment of business practices of local offices with that of IHC

requirements and internal controls

• Ensure adherence to global policies, regional frameworks and local regulations and identify

opportunities and risks that these policies can provide.

• Support local HR, Operations and other departments to manage alignments with business objectives
• Optimize regional cash management and undertake future cashflow planning for working capital and

investment case. Liaise where required with HQ Treasury and local Indian banks

• Take responsibility for entire monthly reporting for local management accounts
• Prepare the month end binder and work with the team to carry out closing in IFS
• Prepare and present the monthly finance report to the local stakeholders and prepare budget vs actual

analysis and any additional Corporate Reporting