Job Profile: CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
S&A Law Offices, LLP is currently seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join our growing team. The chosen candidate will be responsible for taking on a leadership role in financial decision-making that affects our firm and will provide strategic input to senior management. While keenly overseeing the overall accounting process, billing, and realization, the CFO will play a key role in developing and implementing financial procedures to improve and maintain the financial health of our firm. Along with the same, internal audit-related procedures and tax-related compliances will also be governed by the CFO.
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field (MBA preferred). Preference will be given to candidates with an MBA in Finance or who are qualified chartered accountants.
- 15+ years’ experience in a senior financial managerial position, preferably in a law firm or an organization with more than 200 professionals.
- Well versed in accounting tools, audit policies, and tax compliances.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Results-oriented strategic thinker and planner.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Manage financial controls and accounting procedures.
- Maintain speed and accuracy of billings and client payments.
- Provide advice on how to reduce costs.
- Effectively and clearly communicate potential risks in a timely manner.
- Propose action plans to ensure that annual financial objectives are attained.
- Support Senior Management with the preparation of monthly and annual financial plans.
- Report to Senior Partners for the management and control of overall financial and strategy matters, as well as to Management on cost-control exercises and corrective measures.
- Prepare MIS reports, cash flows, budgets, annual operating plans, variances, annual and monthly financial statements, and monthly book closures.
- Coordinate with statutory, internal, and tax auditors for external and internal reporting, as well as adherence to corporate and taxation laws and compliances.
- Drive finalization of monthly, quarterly, and yearly balance sheets and lead the budget-planning process.
- Oversee audit and tax compliances.
Firm Description
S&A Law Offices is a full-service law firm headquartered in Delhi NCR. The firm has 300+ professionals, including experienced lawyers (with advocacy expertise and dual-qualified professionals), chartered accountants, company secretaries, patent and trademark agents, engineers, industry experts, and specialized paralegal staff. With strategically located offices across Gurugram, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad and associate offices across India, the firm is fully equipped to provide legal services on a pan-India basis to both domestic and international clients. S&A practice groups have been broadly divided into the following practice groups: Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), Litigation, Corporate and M&A, Restructuring and Insolvency, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Taxation (Direct and Indirect), Customs & Trade, Real Estate and Energy.
