Manager - Finance - Container Freight Station - Vallur

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company; India; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company is seeking a finance professional to oversee monthly forecasting, financial reporting, and compliance. The role supports budgeting, cash flow projections and treasury tasks across multiple departments to ensure strong internal controls and timely payments.

Responsibilities include audit readiness, tax compliance, and financial modelling for new contracts, with interaction across operations, IT, HR and vendor relationships.

Responsibilities

• Creating, implementing and monitoring processes and procedures around the creation of monthly forecasts.
• Preparing and review of periodic financial statements, including profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flows, variance analysis and commentaries
• Maintaining finance and accounting practices in line with group policies, regional policies, SOPs and GAAP
• Ensure timely supplier payments, reconcile bank/ledger accounts, and strengthen collections controls
• Ensure internal and external audits are met; validate accounts and prepare monthly variance reports
• Consolidate budgets and accounts per Head Office requirements
• Monitor funding levels and prepare cash flow projections, including project financing
• Assist in preparing annual budgets and cash flow forecasts
• Ensure tax compliance and timely filing of quarterly and annual returns
• Interact with tax authorities on assessments and issues as required
• Review AP/AR and payroll work to ensure internal controls
• Interact with customers and vendors as required
• Coordinate with operations, maintenance, stores, IT and HR to enforce budgetary controls
• Monitor financial authority limits and perform finance admin tasks
• Submit MIS reports accurately by deadlines
• Perform new customer contract analysis, financial modelling, NPV and IRR

Job description

• Creating, implementing and monitoring processes and procedures around the creation of monthly forecasts.
• Preparing and review of periodic financial statements, including profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flows, variance analysis and commentaries
• Maintaining the finance and accounting practices in accordance with group policies, Regional policies, Regional SOPs, and regulatory and general accepted accounting principles
• Ensure that accounting & payments to suppliers in time, reconciliation of bank and ledger accounts, reconciliation of inventory, and establishing effective control over collection from customers.
• Ensure that Internal & External audit requirements are met and proper validation of accounts & prepare monthly variance report.
• Comply the requirements of Head office for the purpose of Corporate consolidation of budgets and accounts
• Monitor levels of funding and prepare cash flow projections as required especially project financing
• Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and Cashflow forecasts.
• To ensure all tax compliances and timely filing of the Quarterly/ Annual statutory return relating to taxes.
• Attend to the tax assessments and statutory authorities in connection with taxation issues as and when required
• Review the work of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable & Payroll and ensure proper internal controls.
• Interact with Customers and Vendors as required
• Liaise with Operation, Maintenance, stores, IT and Human Resource Department to exercise effective accounting, financial & budgetary controls.
• Monitor financial authorities’ limits and undertake administration-related functions coming under Finance Department.
• Ensure that all MIS reports are submitted with accuracy as per the deadline.
• New Customer Contract financial analysis, various Financial modelling, NPV and IRR analysis