Division
Finance
Department
Operations Finance
Sub Department 1
Manufacturing Finance
Job Purpose
Ensuring adequate control at site in co-ordination with Site finance leadership. Play crucial role in Monthly / Quarterly / Half yearly / Annual closing ensuring timelines as per corporate for Manufacturing locations. Work closely with internal Audit team to address the control weakness which are root cause of gaps identified in Audit. To ensure accounting Hygiene is maintained. Review of Capital Work in progress, advances, Debtors and highlight risk of impairment, write-off for taking corrective action.
Key Accountabilities (1 / 6)
- Review of SOC (System and Organisation Controls)
- Monitor and review existing internal and system controls at frequency.
- Designing, implementing and maintain new controls / process for improvement in Financial Control
- Accuracy and completeness of accounting Hygiene
- Co-ordinating with Internal Audit and taking corrective action on internal Audit findings
- Adherence of company's controls at Manufacturing location
- Monitoring and ensuing of DOA followed in defined areas
- Monthl visit to one site and review the process and control
- Co-ordinating with Statutory and Tax Auditor for various requirements
Key Accountabilities (2 / 6)
Review of Capital Work in ProgressReview of ongoing projects and identify risk of impairment in on-going projectsReview of Delay in execution in project and highlighting for corrective actionProvision for long running project basis internal Control policyMonthly review of Shift upload, Depreciation of impaired assetsKey Accountabilities (3 / 6)
Manage effective Business Partnering to ensure adequacy and effectiveness of controls related to financial statementsConsolidation and submission of Financial schedules for corporates and Auditor.Monitoring and ensuring timely completion of activities as per defined timelines related to monthly / Quarterly / Annual Financial closing activitiesExpenses Variance submission to corporate for Manufacturing locationsReview of open advances paid to vendor ensuring risk avoidance associate through proper monitoring.Key Accountabilities (4 / 6)
Review of contract and impact of change in costDrive value chain analysis across all manufacturing sites for cost reductionIdentify & assess opportunities for top spends through bench marking between locations.Analyse and ascertain the scrap contract and report the impact of change.Develop and establish best in class control framework & institutionalize control compliant cultureDevelop & Deploy DOA & IFC framework for the India Manufacturing site.Lead & review IFC & Internal audit for the India manufacturing function.Review contracts & identify gaps in processes for bridging internal control gaps.Benchmark internal control set up with best in class organization across sectors and implement improvement initiativesKey Accountabilities (5 / 6)
Partner with multi-functional team build controls and enhance the effectiveness of controlDiscuss with internal Audit / Site finance / central Engineering team on key area of control and gaps to develop, implement improvised control.Discuss with procurement for vendor managementDiscussion with FP&A and Capex , Corporate for implementation of internal accounting policyDrive IT automation for processes and prepare SOP to ensure activities are process drivenDrive automation of reports through advanced IT platforms like Power BI.Manage automation of DOA implementation with core transactional activities.Key Accountabilities (6 / 6)
Monitoring of CSR and Corporate Environment Responsibility spend through Cipla FoundationMonitoring of Water neutrality project and CER project , getting independent Audit through third party, ensuring control over spend. Timely accounting of the same.Major Challenges
Difficulty managing and dealing with multiple stakeholdersOvercome by - monthly connects with MFT to discuss issues & align on action steps
Manage and monitor open Advances .Overcome by - discussion with Site finance and Engineering team and stakeholder to access the risk
Unplanned detail asked from Auditors , corporate and CFTOvercome by – basis the past experience data kept ready and discussing with Auditor their requirement in kick-off meet.
Manage a very long tail of non-coded spend .Overcome by - Proposed all procurement through coded material only.
The deadline for internal and external reporting collide with each other which lead to missing deadlines.Overcome by- Giving extra time from weekends for completing the tasks or ask for internal help
Manage a large number of service vendors of manufacturing sites -Overcome by – Have proposed and working on a service codification and harmonisation of rate contract for manufacturing.
Interact with external stakeholders with varied & vested interestsOvercome by - Developing partnership with key partners and stakeholders.
Key Interactions (1 / 2)
INTERNAL
Operation Finance head (need based) to discuss on monthly score card for Manufacturing site, Impairment of assets, open Audit pointsCorporate Accounting team : (Monthly) Monthly closing, compliance, Balance sheet schedules , Variance reporting, CWIP as per CARO- schedule III.Internal Audit Team (annually) for conducting audit.Legal Team (need based) to discuss on any specific agreementProcurement Team (need based) to discuss on new SOP, monthly tracking of coded Vs non Code material procured at Manufacturing site for engineeringFinance shared services : GR IR reconciliation for recovery perspectives. Provision for write off / write back. Vendor payment releaseCompany secretarial team (Need based)for CSR spend, Integrated Annual report, Donation reporting for Annual reportSite and Central Engineering team :For harmonisation of engineering control and codification of material and servicesKey Interactions (2 / 2)
EXTERNAL
Other Consultants (need based) for assisting consultant in driving the organisational goal through various process . In-licensing / Third Party Vendor : As and when required on various mattersExternal Auditor (annually) on Audits & FC compliancesKey Decisions (1 / 2)
Decisions
Adequacy and effectiveness of prevailing internal control established by IA teamDecision on risk assessment with respect to AdvanceDecision on risk and approval of capex projectDecision to have codification of services for rate comparisonAll decisions related to finalization of new contractor introduction through vendor rotating policyKey Decisions (2 / 2)
Recommendations
To Align on new control with IA and approved by GCFOSuggested to have secured advances and ensuring advances are paid only for key requirementRecommended to have proper project planning to avoid risk of obsolesce and impairmentProposal on realignment on supply chain and Central engineering team to work on the sameEducation Qualification
CA / MBA from top institutes with 8-10 years of post-qualification experience
Relevant Work Experience
2-3 years in Manufacturing finance roles.2-3 years in India finance roles or supply chain rolesPractical knowledge of Ind AsFinancial and data analysis skills, Team and stakeholder management, decision making skills and knowledge of MS Office.,Skills Required
Internal Audit, Power Bi, Financial Statements, Cost Reduction, Ind As, Financial Control, Ms Office