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Manager - Finance

Pernod Ricard

5 - 10 years

Gurugram

Posted: 11/10/2025

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Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

As part of the Center of Excellence (CoE) Finance team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate and timely financial closures—month-end, quarter-end, and year-end—while supporting Accounts Payable operations, including statutory and vendor payments. You will prepare and maintain MIS reports, dashboards, and management insights, enabling effective business decisions. The role involves data collection, reconciliation, and analysis, while supporting audit readiness, compliance, and continuous process improvement. You will also handle ad-hoc and periodic reporting requests, ensuring transparency, accuracy, and efficiency across financial operations.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Take ownership of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing, ensuring flawless reconciliations, accruals, and compliance.
  • Transform financial data into actionable insights through dashboards, reports, and trend analysis that drive strategic decisions.
  • Lead variance analysis and financial reviews, highlighting opportunities, risks, and key business trends.
  • Validate Purchase Orders across PAN India locations and manage statutory payments (GST, TDS, TCS, VAT, Excise, Import Fees) with precision and SLA adherence.
  • Ensure audit readiness by providing timely documentation, reconciliations, and supporting analyses for internal, statutory, and external audits.
  • Identify, implement, and champion process improvements and automation across closing, reporting, and AP functions.
  • Collaborate with CoE, business finance, operations, supply chain, and IT teams to ensure accurate, aligned, and transparent reporting.
  • Mentor and guide a team of associates, fostering accountability, continuous learning, and high-performance culture.
  • Monitor and report on key finance KPIs, SLA adherence, and AP performance, turning metrics into insights for business excellence.
  • Drive GL hygiene and reconciliations, ensuring data accuracy and reliability for all statutory and management reporting.

 

KEY PERFORMANCE INDEX

  • Timely and accurate financial closures
  • 100% GL reconciliation and hygiene
  • Insightful MIS and variance analyses
  • Audit readiness with zero delays
  • SLA-compliant payments and PO validation

 

INTERACTIONS 

INTERNALLY:

  • Senior Manager – Accounts Payable
  • Senior Manager – Closing & Reporting
  • COE AP, Tax and C&R Teams
  • Supply Chain Team
  • Factory Teams
  • CFC and Treasury Team

 

EXTERNALLY:

  • Bank
  • Auditors (Internal and External)

 

PROFILE DETAILS

QUALIFICATION: 

Chartered Accountant, preferably with a Big4, MNC/New generation Indian company.

 

EXPERIENCE:

  • Minimum 3 yrs. of experience
  • Experience in Accounts Payable and Closing & Reporting function in a manufacturing company with a sales and distribution setup is preferred.
  • Exposure in Shared Service environment preferably in the manufacturing sector/FMCG
  • Experience of working in a fast moving and multi–cultural environment is preferred

 

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

  • Fluent with MS Office (specifically Excel and Word) and related tools like Power BI
  • Exposure to ERP environment preferably (SAP, JDE etc.)
  • Sound accountancy knowledge
  • Hands-on experience in dealing with voluminous booking & Posting process in Shared Service environment
  • Good knowledge of financial/business processes

 

BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS:

  • Good written and verbal communication skills.
  • Good at coordination and multitasking
  • Adherence to SLA timelines
  • Should be a team player

Job Posting End Date:

2025-11-08

Target Hire Date:

2026-01-27

Target End Date:

About Company

Pernod Ricard is the No.2 worldwide producer of wines and spirits with consolidated sales of €8,448 million in FY20._x000d_ Pernod Ricard’s brands are distributed across 160+ markets and by its own salesforce in 73 markets. The Group’s decentralised organisation empowers its 19,000 employees to be true on-the-ground ambassadors of its vision of “Créateurs de Convivialité.” As reaffirmed by the Group’s strategic plan, “Transform and Accelerate,” deployed in 2018, Pernod Ricard’s strategy focuses on investing in long-term, profitable growth for all stakeholders.

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