Finance Controller

BondScanner | Sustvest Broking Pvt. Ltd.

Location: Bengaluru

Reports to: Co-Founder & CEO

Experience: 5 - 8 years; CA qualified (mandatory)

Scope: Controllership + asset-liability / treasury management for the BondScanner entity

Team: Builds and leads a small finance function

About BondScanner:

BondScanner is India's retail-native bond platform - operated by Sustvest Broking Pvt. Ltd., a SEBI-registered Online Bond Platform Provider (OBPP). We give retail Indian investors zero-brokerage access to listed corporate bonds and government securities. Built on rails proven by our predecessor platform Tap Invest, which served HNI investors at meaningful scale, BondScanner is the retail expansion of that thesis - and one of the fastest-growing platforms in India's bond market. We're backed by leading fintech founders and institutional investors, and we're scaling fast.

Why this role matters:

As a SEBI-registered stockbroker, BondScanner runs on a foundation of trust - client funds segregation, daily reconciliation, and clean books are not back-office hygiene, they are the licence to operate. You will own the finance function end-to-end for the entity: the books, the regulatory filings, the audits, the client-funds discipline, and the liquidity and capital management that keep us compliant and investor-ready as we scale. This is a build-and-own role reporting directly to the CEO, with a clear path to Head of Finance as the business grows.

What you'll own:

1. Controllership:

- Books of accounts and IndAS-compliant financial statements for Sustvest Broking - accurate, timely, and audit-ready.

- Statutory and tax audits, internal audits, and SEBI / exchange inspections - owning preparation, response, and remediation end-to-end.

- All statutory and regulatory filings: SEBI half-yearly net worth certificates, NSE/BSE stockbroker compliance returns, GST, TDS, advance tax, and MCA filings.

- Monthly MIS and management reporting for the founders and board, with a clean, reconciled view of revenue, costs, and profitability.

2. Client funds & settlement discipline:

- Daily and weekly reconciliation of client funds across pool and settlement accounts, ensuring complete segregation from the firm's own funds.

- Ownership of the upstreaming of client funds to the clearing corporation and the weekly settlement / running-account settlement obligations under SEBI rules.

- Settlement reconciliations with exchanges and clearing corporations, and OBPP-specific reporting under the SEBI Master Circular for Stock Brokers.

- Zero tolerance for client-funds shortfalls - you treat the weekly settlement report as a hard, penalty-bearing deadline, not an accounting nicety.

3. Asset-liability & treasury management:

- Manage the entity's liquidity - ensuring funds are available to meet settlement obligations on time, every cycle.

- Maintain net worth and regulatory capital comfortably above SEBI minimums; model capital requirements as transaction volumes scale.

- Own day-to-day cash management, bank relationships, and the firm's own treasury (distinct from client funds).

- Build the liquidity and capital dashboards the founders need to monitor the entity's financial health in real time.

4. Audit, fundraise & team:

- Lead financial diligence support for fundraising rounds - data room, MIS packs, investor Q&A, and audit coordination.

- Build and maintain a clean, audit-ready data room from day one, so every round and inspection finds the books in order.

- Hire, lead, and develop a small finance team across accounts, treasury, and compliance operations.

- Choose and scale the finance stack - ERP, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting tools - that supports the next phase of growth.

Who you are:

Must-have:

- CA qualified (Chartered Accountant) - mandatory.

- 5 - 8 years of post-qualification experience, with meaningful time in a regulated financial services entity - stockbroker, NBFC, bank, asset manager, or large fintech.

- Hands-on experience with controllership: books, statutory audits, regulatory filings, and board-level financial reporting.

- Strong understanding of client funds handling, reconciliation, and settlement - or the ability to ramp on it quickly from an adjacent regulated background.

- Strong IndAS, GST, and direct tax fundamentals.

- Proven ability to build process and lead a small team.

Strongly preferred:

- Direct experience in a SEBI-registered stockbroker or OBPP, with familiarity with the Master Circular for Stock Brokers.

- Experience handling SEBI / exchange inspections first-hand.

- Exposure to a fundraise on the finance side - diligence, data room, investor MIS.

- Familiarity with bond / fixed-income market mechanics - settlement, CCIL, NSDL/CDSL flows.

How you operate:

- You're paranoid about reconciliations. A 1% mismatch keeps you up; a 0.01% mismatch makes you find the bug.

- You're as comfortable in a regulator's office as in a founder offsite, and you can switch registers without changing the truth.

- You take ownership without being asked. If something's broken in finance, it's yours to fix.

- You think in systems, not tickets - you'd rather fix the root cause once than patch the symptom monthly.

What we offer:

- Competitive compensation benchmarked to senior fintech roles in Bangalore, with meaningful ESOPs.

- A direct line to the CEO and a seat at the table as we scale and raise.

- The chance to build a finance function from the ground up at one of India's fastest-growing bond platforms.

- A clear path to Head of Finance as the business grows.