Team Member - Factory Finance

Cipla; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cipla in Bengaluru seeks an experienced finance professional to manage financial controls for Greenfield projects at the plant site, including Capex accounting and controls for Indore manufacturing. The role covers end-to-end project finance, legal terms, asset capitalization, and coordination with auditors.

Your responsibilities include reviewing CERs, SAP transactions, asset disposals, inter‑company settlements, and ensuring compliance with Budgets and phase-wise trackers.

Qualifications

• Semi-qualified Chartered Accountant with 4–8 years of work experience.
• Preferred background in pharma or manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end financial and control management for Green Field Projects (Unit-V & SIP respule).
• Capex expenditure approvals, CERs, SAP postings and asset capitalization.
• Coordinate with PMC, auditors, and cross-functional teams for compliance.
• Manage BG, payment terms, and commercial terms reviews.
• Maintenance of CER/CAPEX DOA, and project trackers.
• Inter‑company sales/transfer reviews and asset disposition workflows.

Education

Semi Qualified Chartered Accountant

Tools

SAP

Job description

Responsible for financial controls for Greenfield projects at plant site (New MDI project and SIP Respule project) along with Capex accounting and controls for plant site.

Key Accountabilities (1/6)

Green Field Projects (Unit-V & SIP respule project)

• Managing end to end Financial and control aspect related to Project operation, ensuring compliance with all legal requirement, adhering to allocated budget, and meeting designated timelines.
• Finalise Legal Agreement along with payment terms & recovery process (Commercial terms)
• Cement & Steel Reconciliation on periodic basis with help of Auditors
• Project related BG tracker & renewal
• Phase wise Civil Payment tracker and Project related CER tracker
• Ensuring periodic checking of all gate controls at site, including verification of material inward/outward movements, validation of supporting documents, Monitoring contractor/labour entries etc.
• Detailed project related discussion with the PMC team for planning, Coordination and timely execution.

Key Accountabilities (2/6)

Manage Capex Activities of Indore Manufacturing

• Evaluation and Approval of Capex Expenditure Requisitions (CERs)
• IO Release / Value Increase in SAP
• Settlement of AUC (Asset under Construction) GL
• CWIP Tracking and review
• Capitalization of Asset
• Approval of Asset Disposal/ Transfer (ADF/TF) Form and share historical Data/Invoice
• Asset sale account to be settled and make zero
• Tracker - Profit / Loss on sale of Asset
• Inter Company Sales Order Review – Asset
• Tracker for the status of on-going projects
• Capex Data / MIS for Capex
• PLI Scheme activities like Asset Identification, Batch details, BMR/Document, Chartered Engineer Certification etc
• Fixed Asset Verification and CARO Compliance
• Maintenance of Capex DOA in CER
• Capex Advance Review
• BSR for Capex
• Capex Budgeting Activities
• APR Data for Site Custom

Key Accountabilities (3/6)

Business Partnering for Unit Assigned

• Evaluation and Approval of Purchase Requisitions (PRs) and Capex Expenditure Requisitions (CERs)
• Support and coordination with FSS for Payment
• Coordination for other requirements like Inventory, WIP, Audit etc (SOS)

Key Accountabilities (4/6)

Other Activities

• Prepaid JV and Schedule Preparation
• Verification of Measurement Sheet and Invoice for Engineering Control

Key Accountabilities (5/6)

Key Accountabilities (6/6)

• Cross functional alignment w.r.t agreement and vendor coordination, which is being coordinated through regular meetings.
• Ensuring all Running bills are checked and validated by PMC and external auditors.

Key Interactions (1/2)

Internal

• Central Mfg team
• Central Capex Team
• Taxation
• Costing
• Central accounting

Key Interactions (2/2)

External

Dimensions (1/2)

Dimensions (2/2)

Key Decisions (1/2)

Decisions

• Payment to vendor as per timelines
• BG tracker and ask for revised BG in case of near expiration
• Agreement reviews and changes in Commercial terms

Key Decisions (2/2)

Recommendations

• Delay in payment by FSS for escalation
• Vendor not responding on BG expiration for escalation
• Misalignment with Purchase and other stakeholders for Commercial terms in Agreement

Education Qualification

Semi Qualified Chartered Accountant.

Candidate with 4-8 yearsof work experience required. Preferred fromPharma ormanufacturing industry.