Manager - ATR Ops - AFR

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It's who we are as a company. It's our culture. It's our heritage. And more than ever, it's our future. A future where we're always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life's moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together - when we combine your strengths with ours - is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

Job Description

Job Title: Manager, General Ledger Accounting & Financial Reporting

Role Band: 6

Location: GCC Bangalore

Reporting to: Sr Manager

Date:

PURPOSE OF ROLE

Please summarise the overall purpose of the role.

Ownership of Reporting & Insights

• End-to-end accountability for monthly/quarterly financial reporting (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow).
• Provide variance analysis and actionable insights to Zone/Country CFOs and Controllers, influencing decisions beyond reporting accuracy.

Governance & Controls

• Ensure strong close governance-timely GL closure, high-quality reconciliations, and strict compliance with SOX/MICS/IFRS.
• Act as escalation point for complex accounting issues, driving root-cause resolution and long-term fixes.

Leadership & People Development

• Lead and coach teams of Principal Analysts and Analysts, building future leadership pipeline.
• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

Performance & Stakeholder Management

• Deliver on SLAs and KPIs across GCC/Zone operations.
• Partner with global and zone stakeholders to standardize processes, resolve issues, and align finance operations with business needs.

Transformation & Improvement

• Drive automation, process simplification, and transformation initiatives to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Champion continuous improvement projects, ensuring productivity gains and compliance uplift.

KEY TASKS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Please list, in bullet format, the key actions and accountabilities of the role on both a transactional/operational and strategic level (if applicable). Include the day-to-day as well as longer-term goals and indicators. Taken collectively, the 'key tasks and accountabilities' are what a successful post-holder would do and achieve whilst in the role.

Financial Reporting & Governance

• Ownership of Zone/Country Reporting Pack: Oversee and sign-off on supplementary schedules (Tax, CAPEX, Loans/Receivables/Payables, Brand Profitability, Inventory on Financial Instruments, etc.), ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.
• Variance Analysis Oversight: Guide teams in performing detailed variance analysis on tax, brand profitability, and other schedules. Present insights to Zone Controllers and CFOs with clear root-cause and action plan.
• Quarterly & Management Reporting: Ensure robust preparation and review of quarterly packs, management questionnaires, and survey responses, aligning with Group and Zone expectations.

Close & Controls

• Month-End Close Leadership: Accountable for timely GL closure across sub-modules, driving cross-team coordination (AP, AR, FA, Tax, Treasury).
• Journal & Reconciliation Governance: Provide oversight on manual journal postings and review compliance with Global Policy. Ensure high-quality Balance Sheet reconciliations with open items tracked, escalated, and resolved.
• MICS & SOX Compliance: Lead the control testing framework, ensuring evidence is properly reviewed, exceptions are closed, and results are reported to Zone/Global leadership.

Project Leadership

• Global & Local Initiatives: Act as project sponsor/driver (not just participant) for global and zone initiatives such as GCOA, FCCS, Cognos flow, etc. Ensure scope, milestones, and outcomes are achieved.
• Change Enablement: Partner with Global Process Owners and Controllers to align system/process changes with business needs, ensuring adoption and sustainability.

Stakeholder & People Management

• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as key liaison between GCC, Zone, and Country Controllers, ensuring transparency in financial reporting, controls, and projects.
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor Band VII Principal Analysts and Analysts, building capability in technical accounting, control rigor, and analytical skills. Drive succession planning and employee engagement.

3. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Please describe how the role fits into, and interacts with, the wider business. Include a summary of the activities of the wider department/business function in which this role is based. Please also use this section to highlight the key strategic interactions (in terms of scope, key business relationships leveraged, etc) if this is applicable.

• Main Characteristics: Challenges

• Act as process owner and governance leader for Financial Reporting/ATR, ensuring end-to-end accountability for timely and accurate reporting across multiple countries/zones.

• Build trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders (Country CFOs, Zone Controllers, Global Process Owners), influencing decision-making and resolving escalations.

• Drive continuous improvement and transformation-embedding automation, standardisation, and best practices at a zone/cross-zone level, not just within one geography.

• Balance strategic oversight with operational resilience, ensuring risks are managed, compliance is upheld, and reporting is aligned with global standards.

• Evaluation Criteria (Targets):

• Quality & Timeliness at Scale: Ensure zone-level reporting cycles (FCCS & Cognos) close on time with zero business disruption.

• Governance & Compliance: Sign-off accuracy of reporting and reconciliations, ensuring MICS/SOX compliance.

• Value Creation: Demonstrate tangible impact through large-scale automation, cross-country standardisation, and process simplification initiatives.

• Stakeholder Satisfaction: Drive consistent, positive feedback from Zone/Country leadership and Global teams through proactive engagement and transparent communication.

• Key Dimensions:

• This role has the key accountability to have accurate figures in Syspro/SAP & Cognos which is the primary reference for other departments/managers to achieve their target (main KPIs of targets can be based on FCCS & Cognos), like cash flow / core working capital. FCCS & Cognos figures are primary inputs for senior management to make their decision therefore, it is very important to accurately reporting FCCS & Cognos figures.

• Key Contacts:

• Country and Zone Accounting Controller &

• GCC teams

• Geographical Scope:

Africa

4. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS

Please list the following requirements

• Level of educational attainment required:

• Bachelor's degree required (emphasis in Accounting or Finance field)/MBA Finance &

• Chartered or Cost Accountant (ICAI, ACCA, CPA, ICMAI India or CIMA)

• Previous work experience required

• Minimum of 10 years' experience post qualification with large scale manufacturing industry with reporting background.

• Should have lead & manage a team of 7-10 people

• Skilled in month end reporting at group level and problem solving

• Hands on experience on IFRS, IND AS, IGAAP, Africa GAAP or UK GAAP.

• Must be able to handle multiple legal entities, countries and zone simultaneously

• Strong communication, follow-up, and organizational skills

• Strong collaboration & teamwork

• Language skills required

• English (Fluent)

• IT skills required

• Microsoft Office (mandatory)

• S4Hana or Oracle (mandatory)

• Hands on experience HFM or FCCS or Cognos or any other large scale reporting pack (mandatory)

• Advanced Excel (Pivots, calculated fields, Conditional formatting, charts, dropdown lists etc.)

• VBA, Excel MACRO

5. COMPETENCIES

Please list the technical competencies for optimal performance. Differentiate between essential, desirable, and less relevant technical competencies.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Builds trust
• Honest and fair
• Interpersonal skills
• Positive attitude
• Productive
• Takes responsibility and makes effective decisions
• Problem solving
• Planned and organized

Interpersonal Expertise:

• Resolves conflicts constructively
• Respect for others
• Supports diversity and understand others' perspectives
• Communicates effectively

6. BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

With reference to the AB InBev Global Competencies, please identify and list the key behaviours and working style preferences which will enable optimal job performance. Differentiate between essential, desirable, and less relevant behavioural competencies dependent on the level of the role.

The core AB InBev Global Competencies are as follows - please note that your list of behavioural competencies is not limited to these, but due consideration should be given to them. You may add additional behavioural competencies where relevant.

AB InBev Global Competencies

Think big, and takes on big challenges

Desired

Develop the best people and teams

Desired

Has impact and influence

Desired

Executes with discipline

Essential

Acts as an owner

Essential

Leads by example

Essential

7. JOB ADVERT

Please enter in the full job advert to be posted externally. Internal posts will mirror the job description above unless you state otherwise. If the job advert needs to be posted in more than one language, you will need to supply the translation

English Text:

AB InBev

We're looking for a motivated, analytically-minded candidate who wants to be part of a start-up style environment that combines the resources and future mobility offered by a large corporation. Ideally you have a broad skill set and are willing to take on (or teach yourself to take on) any challenge.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required (emphasis in Accounting or Finance field) &
• Chartered or Cost Accountant (ICAI, ACCA, CPA, ICMAI India or CIMA)

Mandatory Requirements:

• Strong written and verbal English skills
• Strong analytical, logic and quantitative ability
• Hands on experience on IFRS, IND AS, IGAAP, UK or African GAAP
• Ability to handle large volume of reporting data
• Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Mandatory Requirements:

• SAP / Oracle
• HFM / Cognos / FCCS
• Advance knowledge on MS Excel

Strongly Preferred Requirements:

• FCCS & Cognos Reporting tool