Piramal Pharma | Deputy Chief Manager - Finance

Key responsibilities

• The Deputy Chief Manager – Finance will be responsible for managing financial accounting, statutory reporting, audits, taxation, compliance, corporate governance, and working capital processes across multiple legal entities.
• The role will ensure timely financial reporting, strong internal controls, regulatory compliance, effective auditor and tax advisor management, and efficient cash collection and vendor payment processes.
• The position will also supervise one team member and collaborate closely with business stakeholders, shared services, auditors, tax consultants, and regulatory bodies to support the organization's financial and compliance objectives.Business: Piramal Critical Care
• Statutory Reporting & Audit Management: Coordinate statutory financial statements, external audits, limited reviews, and ensure timely completion of regulatory reporting requirements.
• Tax Compliance & Assessments: Manage corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing compliance, tax filings across multiple jurisdictions, and handle tax audits, assessments, and advisor interactions.
• Legal Entity & Branch Governance: Oversee compliance for European legal entities and branches, including statutory filings, governance requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Accounting Oversight & R2R Coordination: Partner with the GBSS Record-to-Report team to review financial results, monitor reconciliations, resolve accounting issues, and ensure timely month-end close.
• Internal Controls & Compliance: Monitor key controls, coordinate internal audits, manage remediation activities, and ensure adherence to company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Stakeholder & Team Management: Act as the key finance contact for local entity matters, working closely with business stakeholders, auditors, tax advisors, legal counsel, shared service teams, and managing one direct report.
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Key competencies

• Working Capital Management: Collaborate with GBSS Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable teams to improve collections, reduce overdue receivables, optimize DSO, enhance payment timeliness, and resolve customer and vendor issues.
• Strong knowledge of financial reporting, audit, taxation, and internal controls.
• Exposure to multinational environments and multiple legal entities is advantageous.
• Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Strong attention to detail, focusing on accuracy and integrity in financial reporting and analysis.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and effectively manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Experience working with ERP systems, preferably SAP/S4HANA.
• Experience managing statutory audits and regulatory compliance.

Piramal Pharma

Piramal Pharma is an employer hiring in India. In its own words: "Piramal Pharma is a global pharmaceutical company offering CDMO services, critical care and consumer healthcare products worldwide."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Mumbai.