Manager

Choice International; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Choice International in Mumbai seeks an experienced finance professional to lead budgeting, MIS, governance, and ERP-driven process improvements across departments. The role emphasizes internal controls, cost optimization, and strategic business partnering with cross-functional teams.

The candidate will drive reporting accuracy, manage audits, and support digital workflow implementations to enhance efficiency and governance across branches.

Responsibilities

• Assist in preparation of annual budgets and financial forecasts.
• Prepare monthly MIS reports with variance analysis.
• Analyse departmental costs and recommend corrective actions.
• Present management reports with key financial insights.
• Ensure compliance with GST, TDS, Income Tax, Companies Act, and other statutory requirements.
• Coordinate with statutory, internal, and tax auditors.
• Ensure timely filing of statutory returns.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation.
• Develop and monitor SOPs for finance-related operational processes.
• Review procurement, payment approvals, and expense control mechanisms.
• Support automation of finance processes through ERP/technology.
• Ensure adherence to internal financial controls across departments.
• Monitor operational efficiency through financial KPIs.
• Work closely with Operations, HR, Sales, Procurement, and Business Heads.
• Provide financial analysis for new business initiatives.
• Support pricing, profitability, and cost optimization exercises.
• Assist management in strategic financial decision-making.
• Strengthen internal control framework.
• Identify financial and operational risks and recommend mitigation measures.
• Ensure compliance with delegation of authority and approval matrices.
• Conduct periodic process reviews to improve governance.
• Manage ERP/Finance system transactions and controls.
• Coordinate with IT for finance automation initiatives.
• Improve reporting accuracy through dashboards and BI tools.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes.
• Monitor daily finance operations and transaction processing.
• Ensure timely vendor onboarding and payment processing.
• Track expense approvals as per company policy.
• Review operational MIS and productivity metrics.
• Coordinate with business teams for revenue recognition.
• Monitor insurance, licenses, and statutory renewals.
• Ensure document management and record retention.
• Support implementation of digital workflows and paperless approvals.
• Drive process standardization across branches/business units.
• Monitor turnaround time (TAT) for finance activities.
• Handle escalations from internal stakeholders.
• Participate in cross-functional operational review meetings.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

1. Budgeting & MIS

• Assist in preparation of annual budgets and financial forecasts.
• Prepare monthly MIS reports with variance analysis.
• Analyse departmental costs and recommend corrective actions.
• Present management reports with key financial insights.

2. Compliance & Audit

• Ensure compliance with GST, TDS, Income Tax, Companies Act, and other statutory requirements.
• Coordinate with statutory, internal, and tax auditors.
• Ensure timely filing of statutory returns.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation.

3. Operational Finance

• Develop and monitor SOPs for finance-related operational processes.
• Review procurement, payment approvals, and expense control mechanisms.
• Support automation of finance processes through ERP/technology.
• Ensure adherence to internal financial controls across departments.
• Monitor operational efficiency through financial KPIs.

4. Business Partnering

• Work closely with Operations, HR, Sales, Procurement, and Business Heads.
• Provide financial analysis for new business initiatives.
• Support pricing, profitability, and cost optimization exercises.
• Assist management in strategic financial decision-making.

5. Internal Controls & Risk Management

• Strengthen internal control framework.
• Identify financial and operational risks and recommend mitigation measures.
• Ensure compliance with delegation of authority and approval matrices.
• Conduct periodic process reviews to improve governance.

6. ERP & Process Improvement

• Manage ERP/Finance system transactions and controls.
• Coordinate with IT for finance automation initiatives.
• Improve reporting accuracy through dashboards and BI tools.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes.

Operational Responsibilities

• Monitor daily finance operations and transaction processing.
• Ensure timely vendor onboarding and payment processing.
• Track expense approvals as per company policy.
• Review operational MIS and productivity metrics.
• Coordinate with business teams for revenue recognition.
• Monitor insurance, licenses, and statutory renewals.
• Ensure document management and record retention.
• Support implementation of digital workflows and paperless approvals.
• Drive process standardization across branches/business units.
• Monitor turnaround time (TAT) for finance activities.
• Handle escalations from internal stakeholders.
• Participate in cross-functional operational review meetings.