Finance Lead I Noida

Location: Noida, India
Function: Finance & Accounts
Experience: 3-5 years of relevant experience
Qualification: CA or equivalent qualification

About PAKKA

At PAKKA, we are on a journey to become a global leader in fully compostable packaging. We are building solutions that are better for people and the planet, combining innovation, sustainability, and business excellence.

People are at the core of our journey. Our values of Earth Love, Trust, Courage, Excellence, and Diversity shape the way we work and create an environment where people can learn, experiment, grow, and make a meaningful impact.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Finance Lead – Noida who can provide strong financial governance while partnering closely with the business to enable sustainable and profitable growth.

This role will be responsible for ensuring financial integrity, statutory compliance, healthy cash flows, budget discipline, accurate reporting, working capital optimization, and continuous improvement of finance processes.

The ideal candidate will combine strong accounting and compliance fundamentals with commercial understanding, analytical thinking, and the ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.

What You Will Own

1. Financial Compliance & Governance

• Ensure complete compliance with applicable statutory requirements, and organizational financial policies.
  
• Drive timely and accurate statutory filings, returns, declarations, and supporting documentation.
  
• Establish and strengthen internal financial controls, documentation, and audit trails.
  
• Ensure readiness for internal, statutory, and regulatory audits and proactively close identified gaps.
  

2. Cash Flow & Treasury Management

• Develop and monitor cash-flow forecasts to ensure adequate liquidity for business operations and planned commitments.
  
• Manage banking and treasury operations effectively, including fund deployment, collections, and payment mechanisms.
  
• Monitor working capital and proactively identify potential liquidity risks.
  
• Build effective relationships with banks, advisors, and other external financial stakeholders.
  

3. Budgeting & Cost Control

• Track actual expenditure against approved budgets and proactively highlight significant variances.
  
• Partner with business teams to strengthen budget discipline and financial accountability.
  
• Challenge non-value-adding expenditure and identify opportunities for cost optimization.
  
• Ensure adherence to defined approval matrices and financial authorization controls.
  

4. Financial Reporting & MIS

• Deliver accurate and timely monthly MIS and financial reports for management review.
  
• Provide meaningful variance analysis against budgets, forecasts, and historical performance.
  
• Translate financial information into actionable business insights and recommendations.
  
• Support leadership in evaluating business decisions, opportunities, risks, and financial scenarios.
  

5. Accounts & Reconciliation Management

• Ensure accuracy and integrity of accounting records and drive timely month-end and year-end closure.
  
• Ensure timely reconciliation of bank accounts, ledgers, inter-company balances, and customer/vendor accounts.
  
• Proactively identify and resolve discrepancies, unusual transactions, and accounting exceptions.
  
• Maintain accurate financial records and ensure appropriate documentation.
  

6. Vendor Payments & Working Capital

• Ensure accurate and timely vendor payments in line with contractual terms, approvals, and cash-flow priorities.
  
• Monitor advances and outstanding balances and drive timely settlement.
  
• Improve the accounts payable cycle by eliminating bottlenecks and strengthening process controls.
  
• Identify opportunities to improve working capital efficiency.
  

7. Contract & Commercial Finance Review

• Review key commercial and financial terms in contracts, purchase arrangements, and business agreements.
  
• Assess financial implications, obligations, risks, and opportunities associated with commercial decisions.
  
• Ensure adherence to agreed payment terms and identify opportunities to optimize supplier and payment arrangements.
  
• Evaluate financial exposure and recommend appropriate risk mitigation measures.
  

8. Process Improvement & Finance Automation

• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive, manual, and error-prone finance activities.
  
• Drive process improvements that enhance accuracy, transparency, control, and turnaround time.
  
• Explore and implement technology solutions that improve finance productivity and visibility.
  
• Support integration of finance systems with relevant business platforms to enable seamless data flow and reduce manual intervention.
  

9. Business Partnership & Stakeholder Management

• Partner with business and functional teams to provide practical financial guidance and support.
  
• Guide stakeholders on budgeting, taxation, accounting, commercial decisions, controls, and compliance.
  
• Conduct structured financial reviews and drive accountability for agreed actions and outcomes.
  
• Build strong relationships across functions while maintaining financial governance and discipline.
  

What We’re Looking For

• CA or equivalent qualification.
  
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in Finance & Accounts, preferably in a manufacturing or business environment.
  
• Strong understanding of accounting, taxation, statutory compliance, audit, and financial controls.
  
• Hands-on experience in cash-flow management, budgeting, MIS, reconciliations, and working capital management.
  
• Good understanding of GST, TDS and other applicable statutory requirements.
  
• Ability to analyse financial information and translate it into meaningful business insights.
  
• Strong commercial orientation with the ability to challenge costs and identify value-creation opportunities.
  
• Experience in process improvement, finance automation, or ERP/system integration will be an advantage.
  
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
  
• High attention to detail, ownership, integrity, and ability to work with minimal supervision.
  
• Prior experience with Zoho Books is a plus.
  
• Inclination to work with new technology to enable data led decision making.
  

Success in This Role

You will be successful when you enable the Noida business to operate with:

1.       100% statutory and financial compliance

2.       Healthy & predictable cash flow

3.       Strong budget & cost discipline

4.       Accurate and timely MIS

5.       Robust financial controls

6.       Efficient working capital

7.       Digitized & efficient finance processes

Why PAKKA?

At PAKKA, finance is not just about numbers—it is about enabling responsible growth.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with business leaders, influence financial decisions, strengthen governance, improve processes, and contribute to a business that is creating solutions for a more sustainable future.

If you are ready to combine financial expertise with business impact, we would love to hear from you.

For more details, visit www.pakka.com