Head Accounting & Reporting

Role Overview:

As the Head Accounting & Reporting at our organization, you will be a key finance leader partnering closely with the CFO to shape the financial future. This leadership role combines strategic influence, operational excellence, and transformation leadership. Your role will involve driving enterprise-wide financial strategy, strengthening governance, and building a future-ready finance organization. You will lead the centralization and optimization of finance operations, leveraging the Global Service Centre in Hyderabad, and oversee corporate accounting, treasury, and compliance frameworks. This position offers significant visibility across the Board, global stakeholders, and the external ecosystem, serving as a trusted advisor to the Management Team, influencing key business decisions, capital allocation, and long-term value creation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Financial Strategy & Planning:
• Architect and drive the organization's capital strategy, including funding, debt structuring, tax optimization, and dividend planning to enable sustainable growth and maximize shareholder value.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CFO and leadership team, providing sharp financial health diagnostics, forward-looking insights, and scenario-based recommendations to influence critical decision-making.
• Accounting & Reporting:
• Build and institutionalize robust accounting frameworks and internal controls, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and audit-readiness across all entities and financial processes.
• Lead end-to-end financial reporting excellence, delivering timely, compliant, and insight-rich outputs aligned with statutory, regulatory, and global reporting standards.
• Drive standardization and harmonization of accounting practices across entities, embedding consistency, scalability, and best-in-class governance mechanisms.
• Stay ahead of evolving accounting and tax regulations, proactively translating changes into actionable policies, systems, and capability-building across teams.
• Oversee working capital hygiene through strong control on receivables and payables, ensuring discipline, accuracy, and optimization of cash flow cycles.
• Ensure seamless alignment with parent entity/global finance frameworks, including accounting policies, reporting standards, and governance requirements.
• Drive consistency in financial reporting and controls across entities, acting as the anchor between local operations and global finance teams to enable accurate consolidation and compliance.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to the Board, CFO, and senior leadership, influencing strategic decisions through insightful financial perspectives and proactive engagement.
• Lead relationships with key external stakeholders including auditors, banks, regulators, and strategic partners, ensuring credibility, transparency, and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Treasury & Risk Management:
• Design and execute a forward-looking capital and liquidity strategy, including fundraising, fund deployment, and cash flow planning to support growth and operational resilience.
• Optimize capital structure and cost of funds, proactively evaluating financing options and driving initiatives to reduce borrowing costs and enhance returns.
• Lead treasury operations end-to-end, including banking relationships, cash management, investments, and liquidity optimization across entities.
• Establish and continuously enhance treasury and investment policies, ensuring strong governance, regulatory compliance, and alignment with enterprise risk appetite.
• Drive enterprise-wide financial risk management, identifying and mitigating exposure across liquidity, credit, interest rate, and market risks while ensuring full compliance with loan covenants and reporting obligations.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to the Board, CFO, and senior leadership, influencing strategic decisions through insightful financial perspectives and proactive engagement.
• Lead relationships with key external stakeholders including auditors, banks, regulators, and strategic partners, ensuring credibility, transparency, and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Controls & Governance:
• Design and institutionalize enterprise-wide financial governance frameworks, embedding standardized policies, procedures, and controls to ensure consistency, transparency, and compliance.
• Build and continuously strengthen internal control systems, ensuring robust risk mitigation, audit readiness, and adherence to regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Lead enterprise risk assessment and mitigation strategies, including insurance planning and coverage optimization to safeguard business continuity.
• Oversee the integrity and timeliness of financial reporting, ensuring zero-defect delivery and alignment with statutory, regulatory, and internal governance standards.
• Drive resolution of complex statutory and compliance matters, proac