Assistant Manager – India Control

• Ensure compliance with IFRS and local statutory accounting requirements, supporting accurate financial reporting and governance.
• Manage GST refund claims and export incentive submissions, ensuring timely recovery of eligible benefits.
• Oversee TDS and GST payments, ensuring accurate calculations and timely remittance to authorities, as well filing of returns.
• Manage SEZ and STPI compliance filings, ensuring adherence to applicable regulations and reporting obligations.
• Coordinate secretarial compliance-related payments and statutory filings in partnership with Company Secretaries and external advisors.
• Maintain controls over MSME reporting requirements, including preparation, validation, and timely filing of MSME returns.
• Support tax audits, regulatory reviews, and compliance assessments, ensuring timely resolution of queries and findings.
• Monitor regulatory developments and maintain up-to-date knowledge of local accounting, tax, and statutory requirements.

• Coordinate internal and external audits, including preparation of supporting documentation and management of audit actions.
• Support compliance reviews, regulatory inspections, and governance assessments.
• Liaise with auditors, advisors, and key stakeholders to ensure timely resolution of audit and compliance matters.

• Perform balance sheet reviews, reconciliations, and control account monitoring to ensure financial integrity.
• Support Month-End, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, including intercompany and cost allocation processes.
• Investigate and resolve accounting exceptions, reconciliation issues, and control weaknesses.

• Support budgeting and forecasting activities.
• Monitor and analyse cash variances and treasury-related transactions.
• Provide financial analysis and management information reporting.
• Partner with FP&A and business teams to support decision-making through accurate financial insights.

• Review payroll calculations and related accounting entries for India region.
• Perform payroll reconciliations and balance sheet substantiation.
• Investigate and resolve payroll-related queries and exceptions.
• Ensure payroll processes comply with company policies and statutory requirements.

• Drive process improvements, control enhancements, standardisation, and automation initiatives.
• Support Finance transformation and Shared Services improvement programmes.
• Promote a culture of compliance, accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience skills and behaviours:

• 5-8 years of progressive experience in Finance, Accounting, Controls, Audit, Compliance, Payroll, or Shared Services operations.
• Proven experience managing statutory audits, tax compliance, regulatory filings, and financial controls.
• Experience in payroll accounting, reconciliations, journal preparation, and Month-End close activities.
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks, strengthen controls, and drive process improvements within a finance environment.
• Experience working within a multinational organisation or Shared Services environment would be advantageous.

• MBA (Finance) or Postgraduate qualification in Finance, Accounting, or Business Management or CA \ CMA inter or equivalent
• Strong working knowledge of Indian accounting standards, taxation, statutory compliance, payroll accounting, and financial controls.

• Fluent English: written and spoken.
• Proven Leadership abilities and team working
• Excellent organizational, communication and planning skills
• Professional, credible individual with an ability to influence peers, superiors and subordinates
• Adaptable with an ability to change direction and priorities if required
• Achievement orientation: Driven by goals and deadlines
• Ability to work well with people across the organisation.
• Ability to understand the detail behind processes.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.