Reporting to Regional Finance Head. Support to Home Office Controller, Central FP&A; Department, , Company Management, and external partners in financial reporting, tax compliance, sales reporting, audits & compliances, regulatory & business, treasury & cashflow support to ensure financial integrity of the statutory and management accounting records/group management accounts

Key Accountabilities:

- Reviews IFRS compliant, consolidated monthly/quarterly/annual group accounts
- Review GTN provisions, Cross Charge workings, LRD model testing and IFC testing on monthly basis
- Manages and ensures the monthly BPC uploads are done according to deadlines
- Develops and reviews financial and operational reports/models for company management and global reporting
- Facilitates the process in preparing statutory, consolidated annual financial statements, compliant with IFRS and the Companies Act
- Share journal entries for payroll, statutory transactions, accruals & Provision for posting with FSS & rigorous review
- Tracking of Fixed Assets & intangibles
- Complete remarks for P&L; & Balance sheet Variance Analysis and shared corporate team as per closing deadline
- Ensures that there is consistency in the accounting reflected by corporate closing score
- Ensures foreign exchange is consistently accounted across AU and NZ region for management reporting
- Provide financial information to external business partners like banks, insurance broker, auditors (internal & external)
- Assists with monthly and annual closing of accounting records
- Intercompany reconciliations
- Closely working with Statutory Auditors and Internal Auditors and ensuring timely closure of audits in tight deadlines.
- Coordinating with IT team for developments in SAP, testing of developments, template preparation
- Review Payroll tax, Super and leave liability working shared by HR
- Review quarterly Sales Incentive working shared by Business against sales Incentive scheme for the period.

2. Tax, Audit & Compliance:

- Coordinating with Statutory Auditor to ensure timely Audit closure
- Help in other audits – Revenue Audit, Internal Audit etc
- Ensure compliance with direct Tax, GST, FBT etc.




- Closing Transfer Pricing on a quarterly basis, Coordinate with Tax consultant to ensure Transfer pricing returns are filed on time
- Timely payments to Government for all Taxes
- Continued checks on Internal Compliance –HR, Payroll and other functions
- Collaborate with Tax Consultant for quarterly income tax calculations and ensure the timely filing of tax return, FBT return, local file with ATO and Annual return ASIC.
- Calculate provisional tax payment amounts
- Resolve all tax related queries
- Responsible for obtaining Tax clearance certificates
- Update the Compliance portal with assigned compliance task and timely submission
- Collaborate for secretarial obligation with internal and external Company secretory.

3. Audit & Compliances:

- Ensuring on going compliance to all external stakeholders
- Ensuring smooth audit support & outcome (no material observation)
- Review daily sales report and support to business partners; includes support to SFE team for sales dashboard review
- Review GTN items in accordance with revenue recognition policies; lead discussion with finance head and controller
- Lead 6th Monthly retail price disclosure to PBS post internal discussion with business teams
- Ensure rigorous pricing agenda & cadence for retail pricing
- Enforce adherence to SOP and timely update inline with regulation
- Lead retail claim coordination with business and rigorous review to ensure timely booking and closure of discrepancies
- Enforce adherence to SOP and timely update inline with regulation
- Lead claims automation process along with finance head & regional controller; scoping & liaising with external parties

7. ARTG Review & submission:





- Partner with regulatory team for accurate annual submission on timely basis and proactively partner with business for driving cost savings on regulatory filing fee and reimbursement from customers / B2B partners
- Ensure rigorous payment cadence along with FSS for TGA filings inline with SOP / internal tracking mechanism

8. Treasury & cashflow:

- Prepare and review quarterly cashflow for entity as well as annual budget
- Lead discussions with banking partners and with treasury / corporate secretarial teams for compliances
- Review funding requirements (including financial products) and support finance head in Liaoning with internal (Treasury) and external stakeholders (Bank)
- Review and authorise payments on the banking portal
- Administer employee credit card, share monthly statement with Card holder and ensure timely accounting of expenses
- Reconcile bank transactions monthly

9. Accounts Payables:

- Support to Head controller / Home office team in need-based Review of the following
- Coordinate new vendor onboarding and manage vendor agreements records
- Raise Service POs as per request and record GRN for Services rendered
- FSS team in India for the accounting of payables
- Cross-charges transactions with subsidiary/holding company finance teams

10. Accounts Receivables:

- Support to Head controller / Home office team in need-based Review of the following
- Collate remittance advices, discount & rebate Claims and ensure timely accounting.
- Timely receipt of cashflow as per due date and support discussion with customer post outreach by home office including and minimise DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) and other KPIs
- Verify customer discounts and rebate claims, discussing discrepancies with Retail Business Head & Regional finance head.

Educational Qualifications:

- Qualified / Completed - CA / CA / CPA / MBA
- Self starter and enterprising with positive communication skills
- Advanced Excel Skills
- Experience with Accounting Software – SAP
- Knowledge of local & statutory compliances
- Minimum 5-8 Years of experience in Accounting & Audit in Australia
- Experience working with global and geographically dispersed stakeholders is preferred

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📌 Finance Manager - ANZ (New South Wales)
🏢 Cipla
📍 New South Wales