Senior Associate - Finance Operations

Senior Associate - Finance (Operations),

Role & Responsibilities

Payables & Vendor Management:

- Drive monthly & quarterly reconciliations, ensure payment deadlines for vendors/partners are met per payment terms to build credibility with vendors and partners.

- Ensure effective communication with vendors with response to periodic inquiries, solving disputes, resolving queries timely to ensure vendor satisfaction.

- Eliminate gaps/discrepancies in the process/tools for AP Tracking.

- Periodically reconcile invoices, work closely with SCM team to ensure accurate bookkeeping and payments in the accounting system (Tally ERP).

- Work and Develop recommendations for process automation to reduce manual work.

- Address deviations in pricing/margins agreed with vendors and maintain tight control over SLA breaches.

- Ensure books are updated and confirmed for quarterly financial reporting.

- Ensure timely payments as per agreed timelines

- Ensure vendors file their GST returns for all invoices raised for Hopscotch

- Drive-out reconciliation of GST balances as per books v/s as per GST portal, (GSTR-1, GSTR-2B etc)

Banking and Treasury:

- Liaise with the internal team for daily banking payments and receipts operations.

- Track/build projections for cash outflows against AP vendors/other vendors and conduct analysis.

Receivables Reporting:

- Monitor and report on daily and weekly receivables with various partners.

- Work closely with stakeholders to reconcile discrepancies between receivable recorded

- Communicate with partners to address and resolve bottlenecks and problem areas.

- Ensure receipts are tracked against receivables due, promptly highlighting and escalating any problematic cases.

Analytics & Reporting:

- Provide weekly/fortnightly payables reports for outstanding cases along with aging analysis.

- Monthly reporting of business payables and fixed costs

- Conduct monthly analysis for actual vs. projections and expected cash inflows/outflows.

Ideal Candidate:

- Inter CA/MBA/Mcom with 2-4 years of industry/domain experience, preferably in the e-com industry.

- Strong fundamentals in financial accounting/reporting, experience with Tally ERP 9, Advanced Excel skills, (practical experience with SQL is added advantage)

What we would like you to have:

- Sharp & analytical mind, quick with numbers, ability to understand business, P&L, and balance sheet implications.

- Result-oriented and driven with the ability to work under extremely tight deadlines.

- Proactive individual who consistently takes initiative.

- Sources and listens to all points of view and respects differing opinions when developing solutions.