Executive Commercial Finance South

What makes this a great opportunity?

Suntory Global Spirits is a world leader in premium spirits with $5.5 billion in annual revenues and an ambition to become the World’s Most Admired Premium Spirits Company. We have a strong vision and strategy, an incredible brand portfolio grounded in quality and craftsmanship, an unwavering commitment to sustainability and top talent across the organization. We are focused on driving value across key priorities including American whiskey, Japanese Spirits, Scotch, Tequila and Ready-to-Drink. Headquartered in New York City, Suntory Global Spirits is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings, which is world renowned for delivering quality and excellence across a range of products and categories.

This role offers an opportunity to grow and learn the business requirement on a day-to-day basis and develop an extensive set of skills through a variety of meaningful assignments. Working in a multi-function team environment helps you build / enhance key competencies like Commercial acumen, Stakeholder management, financial analysis, Reporting, Variance analysis & Scheme management.

Mission of Role

To provide daily support to the South zone for the assigned roles and responsibilities to ensure smooth operations of the business. Bring about discipline of KPIs and work towards standardized ways of working for the region. Work closely with the market controller and state sales head to drive the overall agenda of the function and manage the routine activities.

Role Responsibilities

• Track cross functional MIS impacting customers/ sales deliverables such as Past Dues of key customers.
• Act as an interface between regional finance office and requirements at Head Office.
• Support cross functional team with data requirements for internal audit, statutory audit, tax assessments and TDS/GST return files.
• Identify process improvement to effectively and efficiently deliver functional responsibilities.
• Drive efficiency in claims servicing by partnering with commercial team & GBS claims settlement team.
• Tracking agreement status relevant for the function and coordinate with concerned parties for required action.
• To ensure that Customers and corporation reconciliation issues are timely resolved.
• Track monthly Stock reconciliation of corporation inventory.
• Control over system master (customer/ tax/ price/ material)
• Ensure month end closing and reporting of regional Trade investment, Brand investment , Opex and CTS as per global timeline.
• Provide various MIS/ ad-hoc reports to management/ sales as per requirements.
• Making monthly accrual File and updating them with actualization of expense to keep a track of open provision in books
• Track accrual ageing and lead discussions with commercial sales & customer marketing teams on claim submissions
• Review of all payment requests related to regional vendor/customer transactions.
• Track corporation collection and share details with TBO team for invoice knock off.
• Manage promoter account – market settlement intimation, payment, tracking of invoices and reconciliation.
• Support market controller with ad-hoc projects as and when required

Qualifications

Experience/ other aspects

•              Around 4 years of experience. Professionally qualified candidate/MBA finance/CA-inter will be preferred

•              Role will involve moderate amount of travel

Role Specific Competencies

•              Strong communication & Interpersonal skills

•              Proficient in MS Office

•              Proactive, takes initiative, self-motivated, team player

•              Strong accounting/tax knowledge

•              Commercial Acumen

•              Internal/ Statutory Audit

•              Stakeholder Expectation Management

•              Compliance / Controlling