Head - Finance & Accounting - CA (10-15 yrs)

Job Description:

- Day-to-Day Accounting management.

- Timely accounts/financial reporting.

- Presenting financial report to top management and stake holders.

- Take responsibility for all accounting, cash management, investments, insurance, budgeting, and financial reporting, and help drive the company's financial strategy and hiring needs.

- Coordinate development of annual operating, capital, and program budgets, as well as reporting for the same.

- Ensure cash flow is compatible with operations by overseeing day-to-day accounting, recording, reporting, and internal-control activities of the organization.

- Best practices and tools to ensure a well-controlled strong fiscal management, project coordination, cross-team communications, and workflows.

- Comply with national and local statutory requirements and compliances.

- Work with senior managers to efficiently develop budget proposals, provide access to financial information, and ensure contract/grant compliance and reporting variance to budget.

- Evaluate and manage capital structure and fundraising initiatives

- Monitor business performance with tracking tools, establish corrective measures as needed, and prepare detailed reports for earnings calls, management team, and rest of company and other stakeholders.

- Manage finance personnel and oversee financial IT systems, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory entities (ex: Financial Accounting Standards Board, Internal Revenue Service, state attorneys general).

Required skills and qualifications:

- Chartered Accountant.

- 10+ years of experience in executive leadership roles.

- Exceptional verbal, written, and visual communication skills.

- Understanding of advanced accounting, audit, regulatory issues, and tax planning.

- Working knowledge of how to raise capital outside traditional lines of credit.

- Experience in fund raise, mergers and acquisitions, IPO, and investor relations.