Finance Leader

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 18+ years
Location: Gurgaon
JobType: full-time

We are seeking an experienced Finance Leader with 18–20 years of experience to lead the organization’s finance function and provide strategic financial direction to senior leadership. The role requires a strong foundation in accounting, finance, and management reporting, along with the ability to oversee financial operations, strengthen controls, drive business performance, and support critical decision-making. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership, commercial understanding, and the ability to manage complex financial functions in a dynamic business environment.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the overall finance and accounting function, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial operations across the organization.
• Oversee accounting activities including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, reconciliations, month-end and year-end closing, and financial statements.
• Establish and maintain robust accounting policies, processes, internal controls, and financial governance frameworks.
• Drive management reporting, preparing and presenting periodic financial reports, MIS, dashboards, variance analysis, and business performance insights for senior management.
• Partner with business leaders and functional heads to understand financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support strategic decision-making.
• Monitor revenue, costs, margins, cash flows, working capital, and overall financial performance against budgets and business objectives.
• Provide leadership on financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and long-term financial strategy.
• Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, statutory requirements, and internal financial policies.
• Lead and mentor the finance team, establish performance objectives, and build a culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with senior leadership on financial strategy, business expansion, investments, cost optimization, and other major financial initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting systems, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Coordinate with external auditors, consultants, banks, and other financial stakeholders as required.
• Support risk management initiatives by identifying financial risks and implementing appropriate mitigation measures.

Must-Have Skills

Accounting: Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements, reconciliations, month-end/year-end closing, internal controls, and accounting processes.

Finance: Extensive experience managing finance functions, financial operations, cash flow, working capital, business performance, and financial governance.

Management Reporting: Proven ability to develop and oversee MIS, management reports, financial dashboards, variance analysis, and actionable insights for senior leadership.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Tax: Understanding of direct and indirect taxation, statutory compliance, and tax planning.
• Audit: Experience managing statutory, internal, and external audits and working with auditors to ensure compliance and financial accuracy.
• Financial Planning: Experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, scenario planning, and long-term financial planning.

Education & Experience

• Experience: 18–20 years of progressive experience in Finance and Accounting, including significant leadership responsibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, or a related discipline; CA/CMA/MBA Finance or equivalent professional qualification is preferred.
• Strong leadership, analytical, communication, stakeholder-management, and strategic decision-making skills.
• Experience working closely with CXOs and senior management in a finance leadership capacity.