Manager - Accounts

Allied Blenders & Distillers (ABD); Moradabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Allied Blenders & Distillers (ABD) in India invites an experienced Chartered Accountant to join our plant finance team in Moradabad. You will oversee accounts, ensure timely reporting to regional finance, monitor inventory, and drive cost control across BOMs, wastage, and variances.

The role requires SAP experience, strong Excel skills, and coordination with auditors and tax teams, with emphasis on statutory compliance (GST, TDS, TCS) and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• CA with exclusive experience in Alcoholic Beverages required.
• Strong hands-on plant finance and manufacturing accounting experience.
• Proficient in inventory control, BOM, material consumption, and cost control.
• Experience with GST, TDS, TCS and statutory compliance.
• SAP expertise in manufacturing finance and cost reporting.

Responsibilities

• Review plant books of accounts, TB, and schedules for timely regional reports.
• Monitor inventory, BOM updates in SAP, stock reconciliation and variances.
• Review product costing, wastage, and cost deviations with management.
• Ensure booking of vendor, transporter, freight, and detention bills per LOIs.
• Ensure statutory compliance and maintain trackers (GST, TDS, TCS).
• Conduct reconciliations for vendor, contractor, transporter, and scrap records.
• Monitor overheads, breakages, prepaid expenses, provisions and plant costs.
• Ensure fixed asset accounting and monthly cost runs in SAP.
• Coordinate with auditors, tax teams, and statutory authorities.
• Prepare monthly MIS reports on costing, variances, and overheads.
• Drive financial discipline and cost optimization with regional teams.

Skills

Plant finance

Manufacturing accounting

Inventory control

Product costing

SAP

MS Excel

Financial MIS

Trial Balance review

Vendor/tender reconciliation

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA)

Tools

SAP

MS Excel

Job description

Role & responsibilities

1. Review plant books of accounts, Trial Balance (TB), financial schedules, and ensure timely submission of reports to the regional finance team.

2. Monitor inventory and stock control, including monthly physical verification, BOM updates in SAP, material consumption, and stock reconciliation.

3. Review product costing, material consumption variances, abnormal losses, and manufacturing wastage, and highlight cost deviations to regional management.

4. Ensure timely and accurate booking of vendor, transporter, freight, and detention bills as per approved LOIs.

5. Ensure statutory compliance, including GST, TDS, TCS, tax payments, statutory return filing, and maintenance of compliance trackers.

6. Conduct vendor, contractor, transporter, and scrap reconciliations to ensure accuracy of financial records and timely resolution of discrepancies.

7. Monitor monthly overheads, detention expenses, breakages, prepaid expenses, provisions, and other plant-related costs.

8. Ensure proper fixed asset accounting, monthly cost runs in SAP, and accurate financial reporting.

9. Coordinate with internal and external auditors, corporate tax teams, vendors, transporters, and statutory authorities to resolve financial and compliance issues.

10. Prepare and review monthly financial MIS reports covering product costing, stock variances, overheads, scrap, and abnormal consumption.

11. Ensure timely booking of invoices, maintain accounting accuracy, and facilitate applicable vendor discounts through effective financial controls.

12. Drive plant-level financial discipline, cost optimization, and process improvements in coordination with regional finance and plant operations teams.

Preferred candidate profile

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) with 810 years of relevant experience exclusively in the Alcoholic Beverages Industry, preferably in IMFL, distillery, brewery, or liquor manufacturing.


• Strong hands-on experience in plant finance, manufacturing accounting, inventory control, and product costing.


• Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP experience in manufacturing finance.


• Thorough knowledge of BOM, material consumption, stock reconciliation, abnormal losses, scrap accounting, and cost control.


• Experience in GST, TDS, TCS, statutory compliance, tax coordination, and financial audits.


• Proficiency in MS Excel, financial MIS, Trial Balance review, and monthly closing activities.


• Experience in vendor, transporter, contractor, and freight bill reconciliation.


• Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.