Director of Finance & Investments Opportunity- India- Confidential-Major Metro City

Today’s search focus-  DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & INVESTMENTS available with a prominent group (Hospitality/ Non Hospitality) in INDIA. Position is based in a major metro city.

If interested, please inbox me your CV at neha@redkite.co.in

Job Purpose:
This position is accountable for the administrative, financial, risk management and Investment functions of the company. The role includes the development of a financial and investment strategy, metrics tied to that strategy, managing and investing monetary funds and the ongoing development and monitoring of control systems designed to preserve company assets and report accurate financial results.

Educational/ Technical Qualification - ICAI/ ICWA/ ICSI/ MBA Finance & others with requisite experience can apply.

KRA’s:

Financial Planning, Capital raising and Investor relations
·         Assist in formulating the company's future direction and supporting tactical initiatives
·         Monitor and direct the implementation of strategic business plans
·         Develop financial and tax strategies
·         Manage the capital request and budgeting processes
·         Develop performance measures that support the company's strategic direction
·         Present annual accounts to investors
·         Maintain banking relationships and represent the company with investment bankers and investor shareholders
·         Responsible for the issuance of financial information to the board and investors
·         Developing financial models and valuation reports for investors and capital raising.

Risk Management
·         Understand and mitigate key elements of the company's risk profile
·         Monitor all open legal issues involving the company, and legal issues affecting the industry
·         Advise the organization's leadership on appropriate insurance coverage for the organization and the Board of Directors
·         Ensure that the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements
·         Ensure that record keeping meets the requirements of auditors , regulatory and statutory requirements
·         Report risk issues to the audit committee of the board of directors
·         Maintain relations with external auditors and investigate their findings and recommendations
·         In the process of designing an ‘Operational MIS’ with performance metrics and ROI indicators to assess whether each business is meeting required performance standards and is able to yield promised Returns to investors

Financial Control
·         Take ultimate responsibility for the company cash management policies.
·         Monitoring Cash flows for Operations and projects
·         Arrange for debt and working capital requirements.
·         The overall measure of evaluation is Return on Investment (ROI). The other techniques of financial control and evaluation include budgetary control, cost control, internal audit, break-even analysis and ratio analysis.

Leadership
·         Provide leadership to the Board's Finance and Accounting strategy, to optimise the company’s financial performance and strategic position.
·         Take overall control of the company’s accounting function
·         Contribute fully to the development of company strategy across all areas of the business, challenging assumptions and decision-making as appropriate and providing financial analysis and guidance on all activities, plans, targets and business drivers.
·         Ensure that company financial systems are robust, compliant and support current activities and future growth.
·         Take ultimate responsibility for the company cash management policies

New Business structuring and valuation
·         Could be through acquisitions or mergers with existing business in JVs:
·         Business Case validation
·         Valuation of Business and investment structuring
·         Arriving at Stake-holders ratio
·         Target company’s tax structuring and tax jurisdictions.

Operations
·         Manage the financial operations of subsidiary companies and Tax structuring, Tax Planning, International and local Tax compliances, Tax assessments, Tax payouts, etc
·         Manage the accounting, human resources, investor relations, legal, tax, and treasury departments
·         Manage any third parties to which functions have been outsourced
·         Oversee the company's transaction processing systems

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