Associate Director - R2R (Reporting)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Associate Director -  Financial Reporting

Job Location: Bengaluru

Reporting to : AVP - Finance

About Syngene:  Syngene (www.syngeneintl.com) is an innovation-led contract research, development and manufacturing organization offering integrated scientific  services from early discovery to commercial supply.

At Syngene, safety is at the heart of everything we do personally and professionally. Syngene has placed safety at par with business performance with shared responsibility and accountability, including following safety guidelines, procedures and SOPs, in letter and spirit

Mandatory expectation for all roles as per Syngene safety guidelines

• Overall adherence to safe practices and procedures of oneself and the teams aligned.
• Contributing to development of procedures, practices and systems that ensures safe operations and compliance to company’s integrity & quality standards.
• Driving a corporate culture that promotes environment, health, and safety (EHS) mindset and operational discipline at the workplace at all times.
• Ensuring safety of self, teams and lab/plant by adhering to safety protocols and following environment, health, and safety (EHS) requirements at all times in the workplace.
• Ensure all assigned mandatory trainings related to data integrity, health, and safety measures are completed on time by all members of the team including self
• Compliance to Syngene’ s quality standards at all times
• Hold self and their teams accountable for the achievement of safety goals
• Govern and Review safety metrics from time to time

Core Purpose of the Role :

This position rolls up to the accounting head and is responsible for planning the finance and account’s function and meet all compliances while enabling business strategy. The most challenging aspect of the role is to ensure adequate financial control in the organization while enabling the business requirements.

Role Accountabilities

Compliance and Audit -

Key Activities:

• Develop processes and systems across the accounting and finance function to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory norms
• Oversee compliance to accounting norms and procedures with respect to contracts, employee and vendor payments, income tax, TDS, GST, RBI guidelines and other statutory norms
• Oversee audits as an auditee (like IFCR, and Internal Assurance audit) and manage regulatory risks for the company; Provide clarifications as required by the auditors
• Track action against observations and ensure closure of non-compliances
• Revise policies to ensure compliance with changing laws in all jurisdictions where the company operates

Key Metrics

• Timely completion of compliance and audit activities
• Timely books closure and SEBI reporting
• No Non-Compliance in audits

Financial reporting -

Key Activities:

• Support month end and year end closing
• Support the Quarterly and Annual Reports and manage the internal and external review for these documents
• Prepare quarterly earnings release
• Monitor and ensure timely identification and compliance with evolving accounting guidance, provide IFRS/ Ind AS interpretation and prepare technical memorandums that document issues in a clear, logical and comprehensive manner
• Communicate and explain accounting issues and evolving accounting guidance to the management team
• Manage communications with external auditors on external financial statements and accounting issues to ensure auditor agreement with company decisions on accounting disclosures, and issues
• Assist in the coordination of annual audit and quarterly review activities of external auditors
• Supervise international accounting and issue identification and resolution
• Create, implement and maintain comprehensive worldwide accounting policy documents to improve clarity and consistency
• Implement and maintain reporting procedures to comply with internal control requirements
• Perform continuous assessment of the close process and process re-engineering to reduce the timing to close the financial period
• Review AR, provisions/ write-offs, accruals and deferrals and take actions as required
• Review payables, provisions/ write backs, advances etc. and take appropriate actions depending on requirement
• Monthly BS review
• Related party reconciliation and compliance- lesioning with secretarial and adherence to new SEBI requirements
• Managing Adhoc requests at multiple interval
• Managing team performance
• Track team performance at an overall and individual level and provide support/ guidance wherever required to ensure achievement of yearly plans

Key Metrics

• Team engagement score
• Attrition

Syngene Values

All employees will consistently demonstrate alignment with our core values

•  Excellence
•  Integrity
•  Professionalism

Accountabilities as a Syngene Leader (only for Leadership Hires)

• Champion effective Environment, Occupational Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHSS) practices for the company and oversee compliance with those practices within Biologics business. Play an active leadership role in monitoring and verifying safety performance through Gemba walks and other safety-led activities.
• Foster a corporate culture that promotes an environment, occupational health, safety, and sustainability (EHSS) mindset as well as the highest standards of quality, integrity, and compliance.

• Put people at the heart of our success by providing clear, active leadership defined by the Syngene leadership framework setting high standards of people management, career planning and talent retention as a priority.

Experience:

The ideal candidate would be a highly accomplished finance professional and strong business acumen. S/he will, inter-alia, meet the following requirements:

• CA (Chartered Accountant) with experience in pharma or listed entity preferred
• SAP S4 HANA experience will be an add on

Demonstrated Capability: 

• Should have the good interpersonal skills
• Should have the excellent Job knowledge and analytical skills
• Should be proactive in nature

Skills and Capabilities:

• Strong process acumen
• Understanding of finance workflows and processes
• Understanding of accounting and taxation norms
• Knowledge of all relevant financial and legal statutory norms
• Digital-savviness and understanding of tech implementation of finance processes

Behavioral competencies

• Strategic thinking
• Business acumen
• Process orientation
• Effective stakeholder management
• Innovation and creative thinking

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Syngene to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable legislation or local law. In addition, Syngene will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.