Position / Job Title: Finance Controller

Location: Electronic City, Bangalore

Experience: 9-11 years

Reporting To: Senior Leadership

Role Overview:

This is a hands-on finance control role focused on execution, enforcement, and financial visibility rather than system design or finance transformation. The role works closely with senior leadership to ensure strong financial hygiene across entities, including budgets, cash flow, payroll, compliance, and procurement discipline.

The Finance Controller will act as a single point of accountability for financial controls, escalations, and adherence to agreed financial processes.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial Reporting & MIS:

- Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements across multiple entities.

- Ensure accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery of MIS and statutory reports.

- Present budget vs. actuals, variance analysis, and cash flow summaries.

- Maintain consolidated and entity-wise financial visibility.

2. Cash & Payroll Control:

- Monitor daily cash positions across entities.

- Ensure payroll readiness and timely salary processing.

- Track short-term cash gaps and escalate risks early.

- Monitor inter-company balances, receivables, and settlements.

3. Budgeting & Spend Discipline:

- Support preparation of annual and quarterly budgets for each entity.

- Track utilisation against approved budgets.

- Flag deviations and enforce escalation prior to overspending.

- Ensure all spends align with approved financial plans.

4. PR / PO / Procurement Enforcement:

- Enforce adherence to PR PO Invoice Payment workflows.

- Ensure payments are released only against approved documentation.

- Track and maintain logs for exception approvals.

- Coordinate with procurement and operations teams to ensure discipline.

5. General Ledger & Financial Controls:

- Maintain integrity and accuracy of the general ledger across entities.

- Perform periodic reconciliations and resolve discrepancies.

- Ensure clear audit trails for all financial transactions.

6. Compliance & Statutory Management:

- Ensure timely compliance with GST, TDS, PF, ESI, MCA, and other statutory requirements.

- Maintain and track a compliance calendar for filings and payments.

- Coordinate with auditors and consultants during audits.

- Prepare quarterly and annual financials with auditors.

7. Team Management:

- Supervise accounting executives managing entity-level operations.

- Hire, train, and develop finance and accounting talent.

8. Audit & Review Support:

- Support internal and external audits with documentation and explanations.

- Track and close audit observations.

- Strengthen internal controls through consistent enforcement.

9. Stakeholder Coordination:

- Work closely with institution heads, HR, procurement, and finance teams.

- Escalate risks and non-compliance clearly and objectively.

- Act as a neutral enforcer of agreed financial processes.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

- Chartered Accountant (CA) - strongly preferred.

- 9-11 years of relevant finance and accounting experience, preferably in multi-entity or group structures.

- Strong hands-on experience in financial reporting, compliance, payroll, and cash management.

- Proven experience enforcing budgets, payment controls, and approval workflows.

- Comfortable escalating issues and blocking non-compliant payments.

- Strong working knowledge of Tally and advanced Excel skills.

- Prior exposure to statutory audits and compliance.

- Detail-oriented, process-driven, and execution-focused.

- Ability to operate effectively in a high-accountability environment.