Head - Finance & Accounts

About ATC Global Logistics

ATC Global Logistics Pvt Ltd is a well-established company with 68 years of experience in international logistics, specializing in customs broking and freight forwarding. The company has a workforce of over 300 employees distributed across 24 offices. The organization values a positive attitude and mindset, offering opportunities for growth to dedicated individuals.

Role Overview

We have an immediate vacancy for the position of Head - Accounts & Finance at our Lower Parel Mumbai office. The working schedule is Monday to Saturday, from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM. Candidates with experience in logistics, shipping, or freight forwarding industries are preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate, complete, and timely financial books across all company entities.
• Implement a disciplined month-end close process with a fixed calendar to ensure no unexpected variances.
• Prepare detailed profit and loss statements categorized by branch, business line, and job to evaluate gross profit attribution.
• Compile group consolidation financials, statutory reports, and annual report packages.
• Manage statutory, internal, and tax audits comprehensively, ensuring clean records and audit opinions.
• Develop and maintain monthly MIS reports that support leadership decision-making on revenue, gross profit, costs, manpower, profitability, and DSO.
• Own the annual budgeting and rolling forecasting process, ensuring adherence by branches and business heads.
• Provide cost analytics such as cost per job, branch, salary-to-gross profit ratio, and overhead absorption, identifying leakage early.
• Collaborate with Business and Branch Heads on pricing strategies, credit policies, and evaluating new investment lanes.
• Oversee working capital management including receivables, payables, customer advances, duty float, and cash conversion cycles.
• Implement strict credit control policies, customer limits, escalations, and recovery actions to reduce Days Sales Outstanding.
• Manage bank relationships, including credit facilities, guarantees, customs bonds, and letter of credit documentation.
• Supervise foreign exchange exposure related to overseas payments and receivables, ensuring accurate netting and reconciliation with agents.
• Handle end-to-end GST compliance including output/input tax, reverse charge mechanism, SAC classification, returns, reconciliations, and related departmental matters.
• Administer direct taxes such as TDS/TCS, advance tax payments, tax assessments, appeals, and audits.
• Ensure compliance with Companies Act, ROC filings, FEMA regulations, and all related statutory requirements.
• Manage external consultants and legal counsel, representing the company before regulatory authorities as necessary.
• Oversee the ERP finance module to uphold data integrity between operations and accounts, linking P&L statements with job data.
• Establish and enforce internal controls, delegation of authority, standard operating procedures, and approval matrices to maintain robust financial governance.
• Maintain a tamper-proof audit trail compliant with statutory norms.
• Promote automation in reporting and reduce reliance on manual spreadsheets to increase accuracy and efficiency.
• Lead and develop the corporate finance team and branch accounting staff by recruiting, organizing, training, and setting accountability standards.
• Standardize the accounting and reporting processes across all branches, establishing consistent daily and monthly reporting.
• Prepare successors to ensure continuity of the finance function at a higher level.

Additional Information

Interested applicants from relevant industries are encouraged to apply by submitting their CV to the HR executive via the provided contact methods.