Financial Planning Manager Manager-Leading Retail MNC(CAs Only)

Summary:

This dual role is responsible for ensuring financial control, compliance, and corporate governance for India Market. The position acts as a key business partner to brand management, providing financial clarity and contributing to strategic decision-making. It also ensures compliance with statutory requirements and the Companies Act, interfacing with government agencies and Company's legal and tax teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Finance Controller: Budgeting, monthly closing & reporting, internal control & process improvement, financial analysis, and liaison with finance teams and brand HQs.
• Company Secretary: Corporate governance, secretarial services, compliance with corporate laws, representation before government bodies, and support for finance and accounting services.
  
  Requirements:
• 8-12 years of relevant experience in Business Controlling / FP&A
• Strong analytical, controlling, and reporting skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in MS Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint)
  
  Personal Attributes:
  
  Team player, proactive, detail-oriented, able to work under pressure, and diligent.

Role & responsibilities

1. Finance Controller Responsibilities:

2. Business Partner:
   
   * Works closely with local Brand Management in order to provide clarity on all financial

matters and therefore facilitate appropriate decision making.

o Acts as a key contact of Brand Headquarters to comment and explain financial

performance.

* Contributes to the development of a financial / internal control culture within the Brands.

• Budgeting:
  
  *Lead brands budget processes include timely preparation, analysis and submission of

Budgets, Latest Estimates & rolling forecasts, mid-term strategy planning in the Groups

financial reporting systems, in line with Brands and Group requirements and standards.

• Monthly Closing and Reporting:
• *Working efficiently with the Accounting team, ensuring that all relevant accounting entries

are booked properly, in line with IFRS and Group standards.

*Deliver timely and accurate monthly reports to the brands (sales reports, detailed P&Ls,

Capex monitoring, scorecards, management reporting, ad hoc analysis)

*Calculates accruals compliant with standard accounting rules (IFRS/Group), and liaises with

Accounting so that all required entries are booked in a timely manner.

*Analyses gross margin and discount levels, and reports any deviation with Brands targets.

o Review SOSI reports and support Brands on all flows including sale on approval, duty impact

calculations

*Reviews inventories (including ageing and determination of relevant provisions, stock

adjustments) and coordinates with the Brand so that any potential issue is timely addressed. o Prepares and analyses Brand P&L (by Boutique/Department) and balance sheet and alerts

local Brand Management / Headquarter of any identified risk or deviation with validated

budgets.

*Follows up main Brands costs (communication, selling costs, personnel costs...).

• Elaborates and distributes Brands scorecards (or any other relevant report).
• * Prepare and share Yearly reports Eg. Boutique reporting, Environment reporting o Ensure completion of required documentation for price adjustments
• *Ensure partner agreements are in place
• Internal Control & Process Improvement:
  
  *Participates in the monitoring of Internal controls within the subsidiary.
  
  *Contributes to the formalization or continuous improvement of standard operating

procedures and processes.

*Contributes to the improvement of controlling processes and systems by identifying areas of

improvement and leading initiatives and projects to address them. o Spreads best practices across the department.

• Interactions:
  
  *Liaises with other teams of the Finance Department (Accounting, Accounts Receivable,

Retail Finance Operations), local Brands teams, other functions (IT, Logistics,

HR, Customer Service), Brands HQs & Group Finance

Company Secretary Responsibilities:

• Corporate Governance Services:

• Advising on good governance practices and compliance of Corporate Governance norms as prescribed under various Corporate, Securities and Other Business Laws and regulations and guidelines made thereunder
• Run an effective and efficient corporate compliance programme
  • Corporate Secretarial Services:
• Promotion, formation and incorporation of companies and matters related therewith
  
  o Filing, registering any document including forms, returns and applications by and on behalf

of the company as an authorized representative

o Maintenance of secretarial records, statutory books and registers o Arranging board/general meetings and preparing minutes thereof o All work relating to shares and their transfer and transmission

• Representation Services: Representing on behalf of a company and other persons before- o Ministry of Corporate Affairs
• Other government and quasi-judicial bodies and Tribunals
  • Finance and Accounting Services (in coordination with Finance):
• Support Internal Audit, External Audit
  
  o ICS (Internal Control System) conformance o Review of financial statements