Finance Lead I Noida

Pakka Limited; Dadri; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,800,000; Full time

Job summary

PAKKA is seeking a Finance Lead – Noida to ensure financial governance, statutory compliance, and cash flow stability while partnering with the business to enable sustainable growth. The role focuses on strengthening controls, accurate reporting, and insightful financial analysis to drive value for the organization.

The incumbent will manage budgeting, working capital, and process improvements, collaborating with multiple stakeholders and ensuring timely month-end closures and regulatory

Qualifications

• Must have CA or equivalent qualification with 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Strong accounting, taxation, statutory compliance, audit, and financial controls.
• Experience in cash-flow management, budgeting, MIS, reconciliations, and working capital management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure complete compliance with statutory requirements and organizational financial policies.
• Drive timely statutory filings, returns, declarations, and supporting documentation.
• Establish and strengthen internal financial controls, documentation, and audit trails.
• Develop and monitor cash-flow forecasts to ensure liquidity for operations.
• Manage banking and treasury operations, including fund deployment and collections.
• Monitor working capital and identify liquidity risks.
• Deliver monthly MIS and financial reports with variance analysis.
• Review key commercial terms in contracts and assess financial implications.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and finance automation.

Skills

Accounting & Compliance

Cash-flow management

Budgeting & cost control

Financial reporting & MIS

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

CA or equivalent qualification

Tools

Zoho Books

Job description

Location: Noida, India
Function: Finance & Accounts
Experience: 3-5 years ofrelevant experience
Qualification: CA or equivalentqualification

About PAKKA

At PAKKA, we are ona journey to become a global leader in fully compostable packaging. We arebuilding solutions that are better for people and the planet, combininginnovation, sustainability, and business excellence.

People are at thecore of our journey. Our values of Earth Love, Trust, Courage, Excellence, andDiversity shape the way we work and create an environment where people canlearn, experiment, grow, and make a meaningful impact.

The Opportunity

We are looking for aFinance Lead – Noida who can provide strong financial governance whilepartnering closely with the business to enable sustainable and profitablegrowth.

This role will beresponsible for ensuring financial integrity, statutory compliance, healthycash flows, budget discipline, accurate reporting, working capitaloptimization, and continuous improvement of finance processes.

The ideal candidatewill combine strong accounting and compliance fundamentals with commercialunderstanding, analytical thinking, and the ability to work collaborativelywith multiple stakeholders.

What You Will Own

1. Financial Compliance & Governance

• Ensure complete compliance withapplicable statutory requirements, and organizational financial policies.
  
• Drive timely and accurate statutoryfilings, returns, declarations, and supporting documentation.
  
• Establish and strengthen internalfinancial controls, documentation, and audit trails.
  
• Ensure readiness for internal,statutory, and regulatory audits and proactively close identified gaps.
  

2. Cash Flow & Treasury Management

• Develop and monitor cash-flow forecaststo ensure adequate liquidity for business operations and plannedcommitments.
  
• Manage banking and treasury operationseffectively, including fund deployment, collections, and paymentmechanisms.
  
• Monitor working capital and proactivelyidentify potential liquidity risks.
  
• Build effective relationships withbanks, advisors, and other external financial stakeholders.
  

3. Budgeting & Cost Control

• Track actual expenditure againstapproved budgets and proactively highlight significant variances.
  
• Partner with business teams tostrengthen budget discipline and financial accountability.
  
• Challenge non-value-adding expenditureand identify opportunities for cost optimization.
  
• Ensure adherence to defined approvalmatrices and financial authorization controls.
  
• Deliver accurate and timely monthly MISand financial reports for management review.
  
• Provide meaningful variance analysisagainst budgets, forecasts, and historical performance.
  
• Translate financial information intoactionable business insights and recommendations.
  
• Support leadership in evaluatingbusiness decisions, opportunities, risks, and financial scenarios.
  

5. Accounts & Reconciliation Management

• Ensure accuracy and integrity ofaccounting records and drive timely month-end and year-end closure.
  
• Ensure timely reconciliation of bankaccounts, ledgers, inter-company balances, and customer/vendor accounts.
  
• Proactively identify and resolvediscrepancies, unusual transactions, and accounting exceptions.
  
• Maintain accurate financial records andensure appropriate documentation.
  
• Ensure accurate and timely vendorpayments in line with contractual terms, approvals, and cash-flowpriorities.
  
• Monitor advances and outstandingbalances and drive timely settlement.
  
• Improve the accounts payable cycle byeliminating bottlenecks and strengthening process controls.
  
• Identify opportunities to improveworking capital efficiency.
  

7. Contract & Commercial Finance Review

• Review key commercial and financialterms in contracts, purchase arrangements, and business agreements.
  
• Assess financial implications,obligations, risks, and opportunities associated with commercialdecisions.
  
• Ensure adherence to agreed payment termsand identify opportunities to optimize supplier and payment arrangements.
  
• Evaluate financial exposure andrecommend appropriate risk mitigation measures.
  

8. Process Improvement & Finance Automation

• Identify opportunities to automaterepetitive, manual, and error-prone finance activities.
  
• Drive process improvements that enhanceaccuracy, transparency, control, and turnaround time.
  
• Explore and implement technologysolutions that improve finance productivity and visibility.
  
• Support integration of finance systemswith relevant business platforms to enable seamless data flow and reducemanual intervention.
  

9. Business Partnership & Stakeholder Management

• Partner with business and functionalteams to provide practical financial guidance and support.
  
• Guide stakeholders on budgeting,taxation, accounting, commercial decisions, controls, and compliance.
  
• Conduct structured financial reviews anddrive accountability for agreed actions and outcomes.
  
• Build strong relationships acrossfunctions while maintaining financial governance and discipline.
  

What We’re Looking For

• 3-5 years of relevant experience inFinance & Accounts, preferably in a manufacturing or businessenvironment.
  
• Strong understanding of accounting,taxation, statutory compliance, audit, and financial controls.
  
• Hands-on experience in cash-flowmanagement, budgeting, MIS, reconciliations, and working capitalmanagement.
  
• Good understanding of GST, TDS and otherapplicable statutory requirements.
  
• Ability to analyse financial informationand translate it into meaningful business insights.
  
• Strong commercial orientation with theability to challenge costs and identify value-creation opportunities.
  
• Experience in process improvement,finance automation, or ERP/system integration will be an advantage.
  
• High attention to detail, ownership,integrity, and ability to work with minimal supervision.
  
• Prior experience with Zoho Books is aplus.
  
• Inclination to work with new technologyto enable data led decision making.
  

Success in This Role

You will besuccessful when you enable the Noida business to operate with:

1. 100%statutory and financial compliance

3. Strongbudget & cost discipline

4. Accurateand timely MIS

6. Efficientworking capital

7. Digitized& efficient finance processes

Why PAKKA?

At PAKKA, finance isnot just about numbers—it is about enabling responsible growth.

You will have theopportunity to work closely with business leaders, influence financialdecisions, strengthen governance, improve processes, and contribute to abusiness that is creating solutions for a more sustainable future.

If you are ready to combine financial expertise with business impact, we would love to hear from you.