Job Description :
Westland Publications Private Ltd. (an amazon company) seeks a Senior Finance Analyst to support its Finance team. The position is based in Chennai and reports into the Head-Finance for Westland Publications.

Key Responsibilities include -

• Monthly Forecasting of Revenue and Cost for Westland

• Interacting with Business teams to understand the key drivers to revenue and cost

• Monthly book closing activities-Ensuring correct Provisions, adequacy of provisions, ensuring correct account mapping, and getting incorrect mapping corrected, General Ledger Scrutiny, publishing Actual Vs Forecast variance analysis with detailed reasons.

• Interacting with Auditors for any audit requirements

• Assisting in Annual Planning Process for all Business Units, which apart from Revenue and Cost planning will also involve Headcount Planning.

• Interacting with cross-functional teams like AR, AP, Tax, Legal and transfer on a regular basis ensuring tight monitoring of receivables, payables, tax and legal compliance

• Benchmarking of Revenue and Costs across Geographies in Amazon Publishing world.

• Monitoring Budgets for Opex through tight control on spends, ensuring proper approvals are in place viz., Contracts, Purchase requests etc.

• Managing Royalty calculations across formats

• Process improvement in Reporting and Due Diligence

• Ensuring smooth conduct of monthly/quarterly/Annual reviews of business

Basic Qualifications :

• CA/MBA from Top Tier Institutes required

• 6+ years of relevant finance experience

• Fluency in standard financial software and systems, including Excel, Access, Data Warehouse/SQL and COGNOS
Preferred Qualifications :

• CA/MBA Finance preferred

• Ability to demonstrate strong leadership, and possess strong communication and persuasion skills

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously
Knowledge of SQL is preferred.

Job Description :Westland Publications Private Ltd. (an amazon company) seeks a Senior Finance Analyst to support its Finance team. The position is based in Chennai and reports into the Head-Finance for Westland Publications.Key Responsibilities i

Experience: 6.00-9.00 Years