Assistant Manager - Branch Finance

Kone; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

KONE India is seeking a senior finance professional with 8–10 years of experience to oversee statutory, controls, compliance, audit, and financial reporting. The role requires SAP FICO expertise, CMA/CA Inter would be advantageous, and strong MS Office skills.

The position involves coordination with HO and regional teams, budgeting support, and month-end close management in a fast-paced environment. The candidate will manage collection activities, ensure timely reporting, and support regional

Qualifications

• B.com or MBA with CMA/CA Inter preferred.
• Minimum 8–10 years in finance with at least 4 years in business accounting.
• Experience with statutory controls and audits is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure day-to-day financial controls and compliance per FCM.
• Support internal and external audits and provide required documents.
• Manage reporting and communications with HO/Regional teams.
• Oversee collection management and coordination with branch teams.
• Coordinate month-end close and budgeting support.

Skills

Financial reporting knowledge

Education

B.com

MBA (Finance)

CMA / CA inter

Tools

SAP FICO

SAP SD

SAP MM

Project System

MS Office

Excel

Job description

KONE India is part of KONE, one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. KONE has been ranked as one of the most innovative companies in the world. Every day, millions of people globally are using our elevators and escalators in an increasingly urbanizing environment. We want to offer the best People Flow experience to those using our equipment in residential and office buildings, hotels, public transportation sites, hospitals, shopping malls and many special building.

What are we looking for?

Qualification: B.com / MBA (Finance) & CMA / CA inter (would be added advantage)

Experience: 8 – 10 years (Minimum 4 years in business accounting roles)

Skills Required:

• Financial reporting knowledge
• SAP experience is preferred (FICO, SD, MM & Project system)
• Expert working knowledge in MS Office applications like Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & Word

Responsibilities & Key activities:

Statutory, Controls, Compliance & Audit:

• Ensuring performance of day-to-day business tasks as defined in KONE FCM (Financial control Model)
• Manage internal audit queries and oversee information & processes
• Support HO/Regional team with required documents & information during external / global audit procedure
• Random/Compliance audit with operational team monthly to ensure business process are followed in true letter & spirit

Financial & Operational reporting:

• Monitor the Fixed cost expenses & maintain all documents related to finance operations
• Bank Guarantee related documentation.
• Maintain BG issued status and timely follow up with Business team for collection of expired BGs.
• Coordinate with region finance team for month end entries
• Timely submission of required report from region Finance team.
• Oversee & support branch manager during Budgeting & FCS exercise
• Clearing the Bank Open items on weekly basis against the KBS report.
• Debtors ledger reconciliation & maintain accurate customer ledger
• Ability to work with date and time targets.
• Ability to manage interdepartmental work pressure.
• Support & oversee storekeeper on Service store audit (yearly / monthly high value audit ) & report findings to region/HO
• MEC (Month end closing management) tasks (tracking, controlling and reporting) as per the agreed calendar
• Drive regional operations (WOR) review calls with branch team.
• Moderate and facilitate discussions to resolve conflict and issue items with customer/operations team

Collection management:

• Work with branch team on monthly collection forecast
• Weekly collection review on forecasted collection with sales, Installation, service & collection executives
• Support branch team for any query on customer statement of account or billing.
• Follow up with Business team for bill certification or any other support on the collection.
• Review with BM & branch team on FSCM disputes, dunning blocks
• Monitor by Sales & collection executives weekly collection performance reports