AD Corporate Finance

AD Corporate Finance

Description

Designation: Director – Corp Finance 

Core Areas: Controller and Finance

Qualification: CA / MBA (8-12 Years Works Experience) - Preferably with work experience in MNC’s / E-commerce domain.

Our Story 

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers groceries in 10 minutes flat through an optimized network of dark stores that we're building across the country! We’re scaling up throughout Mumbai, Bangalore, NCR , Pune, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad.

We’re incredibly well-funded and our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and more! We’ve also built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Phareasy, Amazon, Pepperfry, Uber, Flipkart, Dream11 and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IIM, and IIT.

Your Role

• The person, will be responsible for overseeing all Accounting and reporting activities in the space of Cash, Intercompany (IC), Transfer Pricing (TP) and Payments processes. The person works closely with Process Owners and enables them to provide specialized Accounting support to the organization, involving independent judgment and action i.e. additional reserves. This role will ensure completeness of month end accounting procedures like creation of accruals, recording of treasury/banking activities, balancing of IC transactions across entities, accounting and reserves, validating completion of third party clearing accounts with the intent to make sure our financial positions at end of the month is complete. The role actively partners with Central Accounting leaders. 
• Coordinate, including being able to perform, activities across the various accounting functions: AP, AR, cash and treasury management, IC and General Accounting.
• Review and supervise monthly reconciliation of general ledger accounts including bank reconciliations.
• Identify synergies between Cash, IC, AP and AR processes and implement best practice.
• Lead “closing” of financial records on a monthly basis and in a timely manner.
• Support in annual organizational budgeting processes.
• Establish regular (Fortnightly/Monthly/Quarterly) connects with Leadership.
• Lead monthly governance calls with Senior leadership to highlight any significant month close issues.
• Advise on new or changed accounting principles and practices that impact Accounting.
• Act as a subject matter expert. Develop and maintain templates and schedules that will be used by the Senior Management Team for review and analysis.
• Assist Team members in resolving issues or difficulties in the performance of their work and knowing when issues should be escalated.
• Periodically review and edit documented work procedures and responsibility grids to ensure they accurately reflect work being done. Suggest updates to department policies to reflect actual practices (Health Tracker, Account Reconciliation, Self-Assessment policies).
• Assist with the selection and hiring process of accountants and managers for the Accounting team.
• Maintain deep knowledge of team functions and ensure all team members are adequately trained to effectively and efficiently perform their assigned tasks.

What We’re Looking For

• People with Attention to detail & deep knowledge

• Data driven and individuals with high level of ownership 

• People with Bias for action and intensity to drive business results

Why Join Us?

• Zepto is on a blitzscaling path unlike any other startup today. Be the flagbearer for the financial process in this journey.

• The opportunity to join India’s next Unicorn is rare. So, we’re giving our team strong equity to create lasting wealth as our company grows.

Interested? Reach out to careers@zeptonow.com

Skills Required

Controllership

Education/Qualification

CA