Job Description

Organization: The Organisation

Harley's Fine Baking (

https://www.harleys.com/

)

, is a European style patisserie (premium cake selling company) created by an IIM professor to disrupt the cake and coffee market, established to spread bonafide taste of the streets of Manhattan across the world. Brought into the world from a love for baking, the desire to create a meeting place that serves delicious food with a warm rustic environment. The Organization offers a full scope of Breads, morning merchandise, cakes, baked and savoury goods. Currently the team size is of about 200 people with more than 15 outlets across Hyderabad, along with a plan of opening 100 new outlets across Mumbai, Goa, Vijayawada, Bangalore, Chennai scaling up to 1000 people over the next year.

Designation: Sr. Finance Manager (Accounting Operations)

Work Location: Nanakramguda (Hyderabad, Telangana)

Qualification: CA preferred; M. Com with strong hands-on accounting experience.

Experience: Overall, 10-15 years total experience, including

minimum 5+ years leading an accounting team.

Job Brief: As a

Senior Finance Manager (Accounting Operations), you will lead the end-to-end accounting function across multiple outlets, the central kitchen, and the corporate office. You will lead and manage the day-to-day Accounting Department, ensuring accurate recording of high-volume accounting transactions, strong internal controls, timely reconciliations and flawless month-end closing (D+5) across all Harley's outlets, central kitchen and HO. This role requires deep experience with ?100+ Cr scale operations and multi-unit F&B/retail environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead end-to-end accounting operations for all outlets, central kitchen, and head office.*
Ensure accurate posting of high-volume journal entries across AP, AR, payroll, inventory, and OPEX.*
Own the General Ledger (GL) including reconciliations, schedules, and control checks.*
Deliver timely and accurate P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements.*
Drive month-end close within D+5, ensuring completeness of accruals, provisions, and adjustments.*
Strengthen internal controls across cash, petty cash, store expenses, and inventory accounting.*
Standardize and improve SOPs for accounting, closing, and financial controls.*
Ensure 100% compliance with GST, TDS, PF/ESIC, PT filings and related documentation.*
Liaise with statutory and internal auditors, ensuring full audit readiness with zero lapses.*
Monitor and manage OPEX accounting, ensuring proper verification, allocation, and approvals.*
Review reconciliations (bank, vendor, GRN/Inventory, revenue, inter-company, advances) regularly.*
Collaborate with Revenue Assurance, Compliance, and FP&A to ensure accuracy in reporting.*
Lead, mentor, and develop the accounting team, ensuring output quality and accountability.*
Conduct weekly finance operations reviews with clear action tracking and closure.*
Drive continuous improvement in processes, controls, ERP usage, and reporting efficiency.*

Required Skills:

Proven experience handling ?100-250 Cr annual revenue.*
Experience managing 10,000+ JEs per month in a multi-outlet environment.*
Strong knowledge of GST, TDS, PF/ESIC, PT, and audit processes.*
Expertise in month-end closing, GL, reconciliations, and control frameworks.*
Hands-on experience with Tally, Odoo, or similar ERP environments.*
Excellent proficiency in Excel (lookup, pivot, reconciliation logic).*
Strong communication and ability to enforce process discipline.*

Desired Skills:

Experience in the F&B, retail, or multi-unit business operations.*
Exposure to automation or process modernization within finance.*
Ability to work with cross-functional teams (operations, supply chain, HR, revenue assurance).*

Personal Attributes:

Execution-focused with exceptional attention to detail.*
Process-driven and structured; thrives under tight deadlines.*
High ownership mentality -- "nothing slips through the cracks."*
Ability to coach, uplift, and discipline teams for high performance.*
Integrity-driven and committed to a compliant finance culture.*

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to ?2,500,000.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

Hyderabad, Telangana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience:

Accounting Operations: 10 years (Required) leading an accounting team: 5 years (Required) handling ?100+ Cr annual revenue: 5 years (Required) F&B, retail or multi-unit business operations: 3 years (Required)
Work Location: In person