Assistant Manager - Finance - Container Freight Station - Tuticorin

Job Description

Budgeting & Forecasting:

• Prepare annual budgets for volume, revenue, expenses, and EBITDA in line with Regional Office (RO) guidelines.
• Develop quarterly re-forecasts based on prevailing trends and actual performance.
  
  

• Prepare and analyze the Alpha Report on a monthly basis, highlighting variances between budgeted and actual figures.
• Generate Performance Trackers and conduct monthly variance analysis.
• Prepare Customer-wise Profitability reports monthly.
• Compile and present the CEO MIS Report every month.
  
  

• Create monthly cash flow projections and compare with actual weekly collections.
• Coordinate with user departments to prepare Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) for asset purchases.
• Ensure timely capitalization of assets in coordination with the GSC GL team.
• Review asset utilization and retire underused assets on a monthly basis.
  
  

• Conduct Customer-wise follow-ups to ensure Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) meets budget targets.
• Follow up with default vendors for GSTR-1 filings to ensure input tax credit eligibility.
• Prepare monthly accrued income workings with the GSC team.
• Record provisions for general expenses where invoices are pending at month-end.
  
  

• Perform sales reconciliations between billing software and Oracle (SR & Trial Balance).
• Prepare detailed schedules to support statutory and internal audits.
  
  

• Liaise with the MDM team for vendor creation and updates in Oracle.
  
  

• Segregate Line of Business (LOB)-wise revenue and expenses using appropriate trackers.
• Coordinate with user departments to renew statutory and operational licenses (e.g., trade license, CFS/Bonded Warehouse license, property tax, asset/equipment insurance, staff health insurance).
  
  

• Follow up with advocates on ongoing legal matters.
• Liaise with government agencies as required for regulatory and compliance matters.