Accounting Manager

Catalyst Brands India

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Catalyst Brands is expanding its capability centre in India to accelerate AI, automation, and GenAI initiatives across Finance. The Manager - Operations Excellence will partner with Finance leaders to modernize manual processes into intelligent, scalable capabilities, delivering measurable business value.

Responsibilities span AI strategy, governance, opportunity discovery, Lean-driven improvements, and change management to improve productivity, quality, and cycle times across AP, Payroll, GL,

Qualifications

CA/CMA/MBA Finance/Commerce required or equivalent.
Lean Six Sigma certification valued.
AI, data analytics certifications desirable.
Program management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the Finance AI roadmap and governance.
Identify AI opportunities across Finance functions.
Lead transformation initiatives for process efficiency.
Establish KPI dashboards and value realization.
Drive AI adoption and change management across Finance.

Skills

Analytical rigor

Structured problem solving

Digital-first mindset

Stakeholder management

Execution discipline

Communication

Change enablement

Education

CA / CMA / MBA Finance / Commerce graduate

Lean Six Sigma

AI, Data Analytics certifications

Tools

Power Platform

Microsoft Copilot

Power BI

SharePoint

OneStream

Job description

Overview

Manager - Operations Excellence (AI & GenAI)

About Catalyst Brands

Catalyst Brands is a leading U.S.-based retail organization formed in 2025 through the merger of JCPenney and SPARC Group, combining multiple iconic fashion brands under one umbrella. The company manages a diversified portfolio of well-known brands including Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers, Nautica, Lucky Brand, and JCPenney. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Catalyst Brands focuses on delivering modern retail experiences while leveraging the heritage of established global brands. With a workforce of over tens of thousands and multi-billion-dollar revenue, the organization operates at a large scale across retail, e-commerce, and supply chain domains. The company emphasizes innovation, digital transformation, and customer-centric strategies to enhance brand value and consumer engagement. Catalyst Brands is expanding its global presence, including a growing capability centre in India that supports technology, digital operations, and analytics. It aims to drive operational excellence and business growth by integrating technology, data-driven insights, and efficient retail practices.

Overview

Manager - Operations Excellence (AI & GenAI)

About Catalyst Brands

Role Summary

Lead the Finance AI and Transformation agenda across Catalyst Brands Finance by identifying, prioritizing, implementing, and scaling AI-, automation-, and agentic workflow-driven solutions. Partner with Finance leaders to transform manual processes into intelligent, scalable, and measurable digital capabilities while ensuring business value realization.

Core Responsibilities

AI Strategy & Transformation

Develop and execute Finance AI roadmap
Identify and prioritize AI opportunities across Finance functions
Build Finance AI adoption framework and governance
Drive Finance transformation initiatives aligned with CFO priorities
Establish Finance AI Center of Excellence (CoE) capability

AI Use Case Discovery

Conduct structured discovery sessions with Finance leaders
Evaluate opportunities based on value, feasibility, and data readiness
Build and maintain AI opportunity portfolio
Develop business cases and implementation roadmaps

Operational Excellence & Transformation

Partner with AP, Payroll, GL , Inventory and Credit/CSA managers to define annual productivity, cycle-time, and quality improvement goals.
Conduct process diagnostics, maturity assessments, and root cause analysis to identify systemic inefficiencies and eliminate waste.
Lead Lean-driven improvements that enhance throughput, SLA performance, stability, and control posture across all three functions.
Establish enterprise-aligned governance rhythms — weekly dashboards, KPI packs, exception logs, audit readiness scorecards.
Ensure standardized execution of Ops Excellence frameworks across towers, reducing variation and strengthening process predictability.

Controls, Compliance & Quality

Strengthen maker-checker, exception governance, reconciliation controls, and audit preparedness across all three operational towers.
Identify control gaps, analyze exceptions, and implement systemic fixes to reduce defects, rework, and audit observations.
Drive compliance with SOPs, DoA policies, reconciliation timelines, data-quality requirements, and regulatory expectations.
Partner with Quality/Controls teams to embed preventive controls, enhance evidence trails, and support certifications and audits.

People, Capability & Change Management

Coach tower managers and teams on Lean, structured problem solving, AI literacy, process thinking, and automation-first ways of working.
Conduct Kaizens, workshops, learning sprints, and capability uplift initiatives that build CI culture across AP, Payroll, General Accounting End to end process and Inventory End to End and Credit/CSA.
Develop change adoption plans, communication packs, and updated SOPs/playbooks to ensure successful rollout of new processes/tools.

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

Engage closely with US/SLC stakeholders, Finance Ops leadership, IT/Access, Procurement, HR, Merchant Services, Accounting/GL, and other upstream/downstream partners.
Drive structured issue triage, escalation management, and cross-functional alignment on volume spikes, close cycles, and system changes.
Provide leadership with data-backed recommendations, trend insights, and process/automation opportunity identification.

Automation & Agentic Workflows