Head Accounting, Credit

Your Job Role Summary

You will be responsible for spearheading and leading the team to perform timely and precise accounting operations for the company in line with accounting principles and standards to present true & fair financial results, including establishing and maintaining the organization's accounting principles, practices, and procedures. You will also be responsible for Credit Management & Controls and Sales Order Management, ensuring receivables are within the predefined limits and timely support to various businesses. Your role with entail driving controls and efforts to maintain financial discipline, safeguard assets and manage risks.

Your key deliverables will be

• Overseeing and monitoring the daily activities of the accounting department to ensure that the month-end and year-end reports are completed accurately and on time.
• Developing strong business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
• Monitoring, reviewing and identifying opportunities for process improvement, to ensure its alignment with GAAP and to ensure internal financial control (IFC) as required under law.
• Tracking functional performance to ensure the financial reporting frameworks are in alignment with prevailing regulations and legislation.
• Reviewing the journals entered by the teams for Account Payable, Account Receivable, General ledger, Credit Control and Sales Order management across all regions.
• Carrying out the capitalization of assets in plants in a timely manner and accurately performing accounting for depreciation.
• Ensure that the physical verification of assets takes place at a pre-defined interval at all plants and physical verification results are properly reflected in books.
• Preparing and publishing timely & accurate financial statements including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
• Monitoring Revenue Account Reconciliations and ensuring its timely updating in the system.
• Designing and applying checks and controls to ensure correct accounting of relevant taxes and statutory dues are performed.
• Leading the statutory audit including updating of financial statements, updating and reviewing data required for notes to account disclosures and query resolution.
• Coordinating with IT teams to implement changes and process improvements.
• Providing advice on financial accounting issues to team and review their performance.
• Responsible for commercial credit management and control by advising on the guidelines for granting Company credit thus ensuring the proper management of credit policies, in compliance with the envisaged rules and procedures.
• Responsible for Risk Assessment and ensuring that the team is adhering to defined credit policies and processes.
• Guiding the team for approval of payment conditions, requests for extensions, guarantees and payment instruments on sales team proposal.
• Leading the team for debt recovery plans in consultation with sales team, collections and management of trade-offs and factoring management.
• Responsible for Sales Order Management and Active Invoicing leading the team for managing invoicing, credit and debit notes, to all domestic and foreign customers with the exclusion of material picking, packing, preparation of shipping documents, goods exit and loading of means of transport, which remain under the responsibility of Materials Management.
• Leading and guiding the team for management of revenues and related economic accrual for financial reporting purposes and cut-off for monthly active billing.
• Channeling of receivables other than trade receivables (miscellaneous receivables, fixed assets, financial receivables, etc.).