Manager Finance

About Ceres India

Ceres India (Ceres Environmental India Pvt. Ltd.) serves as the Global Capabilities Centre for Ceres Global, embodying strategic value, innovation, and operational excellence. With a highly skilled and diverse team, Ceres India drives efficiency and delivers exceptional support services across global operations.

Driven by Purpose, Powered by People

At Ceres, you’re more than just an employee — you’re part of a team with a meaningful mission. Whether in leadership, field operations, or behind the scenes, every team member plays a vital role in restoring hope, helping communities recover, and rebuilding lives.

We value initiative, respect diversity, and empower our people to lead. We offer competitive compensation, global exposure, and a culture built on resilience and teamwork.

If you show up with compassion, act with urgency, and deliver solutions, you’ll fit right in. We don’t just respond to challenges — we rise to them.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Finance Manager to support Ceres India’s finance operations and global finance requirements.

This role will be responsible for managing India finance operations, statutory compliance, banking, audit support, financial controls, reporting oversight, and stakeholder coordination.

The ideal candidate will bring 7-10 years of finance and accounting experience with a strong controller mindset, hands-on India compliance knowledge, banking exposure, and the ability to work with US finance stakeholders in a growing GCC environment.

Key Responsibilities

Finance Controllership & Reporting

• Own and manage India finance operations, including GL, AP, accounting, intercompany, reconciliations, and month-end close.
• Review financial schedules, journal entries, accruals, provisions, reconciliations, and reporting outputs prepared by the finance team.
• Provide oversight to Finance Specialist workstreams covering US entity close, reporting, consolidation, project accounting, and job-costing support.
• Ensure accuracy of monthly MIS, balance sheet schedules, variance analysis for India
• Support Local GAAP to US GAAP reporting and reconciliation requirements as needed.
• Maintain strong financial controls, documentation discipline, and audit readiness across finance processes.
• Manage transfer pricing documentation, intercompany invoicing, and related supporting schedules to ensure compliance, accuracy, and audit readiness

India Compliance & Audit

• Manage India statutory compliance including GST, TDS, income tax support, ROC/secretarial coordination, and related filings.
• Coordinate with statutory auditors, tax consultants, banks, payroll, HR, and external advisors.
• Prepare and review audit schedules, reconciliations, compliance workings, and supporting documentation.
• Ensure compliance calendars are maintained, and all statutory timelines are met.
• Act as the India-side finance point of contact for audit and compliance-related queries.

Banking, Payments & Cash Flow

• Manage banking operations, bank reconciliations, payment coordination, and banking documentation.
• Oversee vendor payments, employee reimbursements, payroll-related payments, statutory payments, and intercompany settlements.
• Support cash flow reporting, fund movement tracking, working capital visibility, and treasury coordination.
• Coordinate with banks for account operations, approvals, documentation, foreign remittance support, and issue resolution.
• Strengthen controls around payments, approvals, vendor documentation, and banking processes.

Team, Stakeholder & Process Management

• Work closely with US Controllers, India leadership, HR, Payroll, Operations, and external partners.
• Track close status, compliance risks, banking issues, audit requirements, and escalations.
• Lead and support finance process transitions from the US or other global locations to India, including knowledge transfer, SOP creation, control setup, and stabilization of transitioned activities.
• Identify process gaps and drive improvements in finance operations, compliance, banking, reporting, and audit readiness.

Required Qualifications

• CA, CMA, CA Inter or equivalent finance qualification.
• 7–10 years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, controllership, compliance, or finance operations.
• Strong experience in month-end close, reconciliations, financial reporting, India statutory compliance, audit support, and banking.
• Experience managing or reviewing the work of finance team members.
• Experience working with US/global stakeholders or in a GCC/shared services environment is preferred.
• Strong Excel, MIS, reconciliation, reporting, and documentation skills.
• Experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Tally, Microsoft Dynamics, or equivalent.
• Strong communication, ownership, attention to detail, and stakeholder management skills.

What to Expect

This is a broad finance role covering controllership, India compliance, banking, reporting oversight, audit readiness, and team review. The right candidate should be hands-on, structured, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing both execution and governance.

Why Join Ceres?

At Ceres, you won’t just have a job — you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact by supporting global disaster recovery operations through technology.

We offer:

• A collaborative, mission-driven work culture
• Hands-on experience with software development in a global environment
• Exposure to enterprise systems, modern tools, and real-world IT projects
• Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement