Finance Head & FP&A

Job Purpose To oversee group-level financial control, consolidation, reporting, budgeting, and performance management across multiple entities. The role ensures financial accuracy, strong internal controls, effective cost management, and actionable financial insights to support business decisions and organizational profitability. Key Responsibilities • Group Consolidation: Lead financial consolidation, intercompany reconciliations and eliminations, including appropriate accounting treatment for subsidiaries, partial ownership, non-controlling interests, and other consolidation adjustments. • Financial Reporting: Oversee monthly and annual financial statements, management accounts, general ledger reviews, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, provisions, and period-end cut-offs. Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting. • Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead annual budgeting, financial forecasting, variance analysis, and financial planning. Challenge budget assumptions, investigate material deviations, and recommend corrective actions. • Month-End Closing: Manage the closing process, strengthen reconciliation practices, and establish effective review and posting controls, targeting timely completion of the monthly close. • Management Reporting: Prepare consolidated MIS reports and financial dashboards covering revenue, profitability, EBITDA, operating expenses, cash flow, and key performance indicators. Present financial insights and risks to senior management. • Cash Flow & Working Capital: Monitor liquidity, cash flow forecasts, receivables, payables, and working capital. Identify financial risks and recommend measures to improve cash management. • Profitability & Cost Optimization: Monitor entity-level and business-unit profitability, identify loss-making operations and cost inefficiencies, and develop corrective action plans with business heads. • Internal Controls & Compliance: Strengthen financial governance, approval processes, accounting policies, and internal controls. Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, statutory requirements, and group policies. Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; professional qualification such as CA, ACCA, or CFA preferred. • 15+ years of relevant finance experience, including substantial experience in financial control, group consolidation, budgeting, and management reporting. • Strong expertise in intercompany eliminations, financial statements, OCI, consolidation adjustments, variance analysis, and internal controls. • Experience managing financial reporting and performance across multiple entities or business units. • Strong analytical, commercial, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify financial risks and drive cost optimization. • Demonstrated ability to challenge senior stakeholders professionally, manage internal business conflicts, maintain financial independence, and enforce accountability even in difficult or loss-making business situations. • Strong communication skills and the ability to translate financial data into clear recommendations for senior leadership.