General Manager – Finance & Accounts

3P Consultants; India; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

3P Consultants in India seeks a senior finance leader to drive governance, taxation, and consolidated reporting across multiple plants using SAP. The role is positioned as potential CFO succession with strong partnering to senior leadership.

You will strengthen tax strategy, compliance, budgeting, working capital, and cost controls, while leading a 15-20 member finance team and interfacing with auditors, regulators, and promoters.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant with 15+ years of diverse corporate/operational finance experience.
• Automotive/Manufacturing industry experience is preferred.
• Proven leadership in taxation, compliance, and governance.
• Solid SAP ERP experience across multiple legal entities or plant locations.

Responsibilities

• Own direct and indirect tax strategy, including GST, TDS, and other duties.
• Lead statutory filings, SEBI compliance, and audits (internal, external).
• Drive budgeting across business units and working-capital optimization.
• Oversee multi-plant consolidation and MIS in line with Ind AS and SEBI.
• Strengthen cost accounting frameworks and robust financial controls across plants.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a 15–20 member finance team and stakeholders.

Skills

Executive leadership

Financial analysis

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Chartered Accountant

Tools

SAP ERP

Job description

Job Purpose

• This is a senior finance leadership role combining corporate finance governance with hands-on, multi-plant financial control. The successful candidate will be expected to strengthen taxation and statutory compliance, ensure reliable financial consolidation and MIS, improve working-capital and cash-flow management, standardize costing and controls across plants, and use SAP-enabled processes to improve efficiency.The role is positioned as a potential CFO succession pipeline. Accordingly, the candidate should bring both execution depth and the ability to partner with senior leadership, plant heads, auditors, regulators and other stakeholders.

Company Background

• A leading automotive tier 1 company.

Taxation, Compliance & Governance

• Own direct and indirect tax strategy, including corporate tax, GST, TDS and other applicable duties.
• Ensure timely statutory filings and compliance, including relevant SEBI requirements.
• Lead internal, external and statutory tax audits and act as a key interface with auditors, tax authorities and regulators.
• Oversee transfer-pricing documentation for cross-border / inter-company transactions and applicable manufacturing tax incentives.
• Track changes in tax laws, Ind AS and SEBI guidelines and translate them into operating processes.

Financial Planning, Budgeting & Cash Flow

• Develop and monitor budgets across business verticals and manufacturing units.
• Manage working capital, liquidity and overall cash flow across the business.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cost of capital and improve capital structure / profitability.
• Monitor financial and operational risks and establish preventive controls.

Multi-Plant Accounting, Consolidation & MIS

• Consolidate plant-level financials and deliver monthly, quarterly and annual statements in line with Ind AS and
• applicable SEBI requirements.
• Publish timely corporate and plant MIS, identifying tax variances, margin leakages and performance gaps.
• Strengthen cost accounting and costing frameworks across the manufacturing footprint.
• Maintain robust payment approval, accounting and financial-control processes.

SAP, Process Standardization & Operational Excellence

• Use the corporate SAP ERP platform to automate and standardize tax filing, cost tracking and reconciliation.
• Improve the efficiency and consistency of finance processes across plants and legal entities.
• Ensure payment processing is timely and aligned with defined service levels and payment cycles.

Team Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of 15-20 finance professionals and plant commercial heads.
• Build team capability through technical, behavioral and SAP-related learning.
• Work closely with internal audit, plant heads, commercial teams and corporate functions.
• Manage external relationships with promoters, institutional investors, statutory auditors, tax authorities, regulators, vendors and material suppliers.

Qualification & Experience

• Chartered Accountant (preference for first attempt qualifiers ) and article ship from renowned CA firms
• 15+ years of diverse, deep experience in the field of corporate and operational finance.
• Industry Context: Proven track record within the Automotive / Manufacturing Industry is a core requirement. Multiplant manufacturing experience is highly valued.
• Taxation & Compliance Leadership: Minimum 5 years of proven experience managing corporate taxation, plant commercial compliance, and structural tax strategies.
• Scale & Systems: Solid expertise working inside an integrated SAP ERP environment across multiple legal entities or plant locations

Core Competencies & Functional Knowledge

• Execution Excellence (Must Have): Ability to understand, link, and analyze multi-layered data to get to the bottom of complex issues, breaking them down into actionable parts.
• Functional Knowledge (Must Have): Deep, working knowledge of modern Accounting Standards, Ind AS Principles, Financial Instruments, Corporate Tax Laws, and GST Standards.
• People Leadership: Proven ability to identify existing and future needs of stakeholders, responding with appropriate quality-driven solutions.
• Results Orientation: Strong communication skills that build confidence in employees' abilities, facilitating clear delegation of authority and shared accountability