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29/08 Akshay Datt
Founder at Unnati

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Financial Controller - Career Counselling Firm - CA (5-7 yrs)

Delhi NCR/Noida/Gurgaon/Gurugram Job Code: 1147237

Financial Controller

Our client is one of the most advanced career counselling platforms that gives an unbiased view and effective solutions to students. They have a reach of over 6500 schools across India and Middle East. It works with various state governments and international agencies to cover as many career options as possible.

The founder is a Finance Post Graduate who quit his glittering Investment Banking career to embark on this journey of helping out our future generation in selecting the right career option based on various aspects. They have already connected to a million students and plan to reach 10 million by 2022.

As a Financial Controller, you will be responsible for leading all matters relating to finance, compliance, and corporate governance and acting as a key interface with all the relevant stakeholders.

What you will do :

- Acting as a central point and facilitator for all financial reporting

- Helping develop detailed dashboards and KPIs and ensuring robust systems to track and monitor impact, financial and operating information

- Preparing necessary materials and information for the Board

- Ensuring robust governance norms are in place

- Ensuring timely and comprehensive financial reporting to all the funders, as outlined in contracts with funding agencies

- Preparing statements and necessary reports for the investors

- Coordinating with and responding in a time-bound manner to the information requested by investors

- Managing cash flows and treasury functions

- Managing banking relationships

- Developing profit center-wise budgets

- Preparing and maintaining regular financial reports; monthly expense forecast by segment (vs. projections); rolling 3-month cash out-flow forecast

- Maintaining of books of accounts through Tally/ Quickbooks and related activities

- Incorporating profit center wise reporting and analysis in the accounting system to separately track the performance of each activity against budget/projections

- Conducting all month-end closing activities including general ledger maintenance, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset verification, and corporate/overhead cost allocation

- Ensuring timeliness, accuracy, and usefulness of financial and management reporting

- Preparing of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial statements

- Managing payroll and employee reimbursements

- Assisting in computing taxes and preparing tax returns (TDS, GST, Professional Tax, etc.)

- Reviewing and streamlining the financial, reporting, and compliance functions

- Developing and documenting robust accounting policies and procedures

- Ensuring maintenance of appropriate internal controls and financial procedures, at all times

- Serving as a key point of contact for internal and external auditors

- Managing preparation and support of all internal and external audits

- Participating in HR Administration in areas such as PF, offer letters, increments, appraisals, insurance policies, etc

- Managing the company's assets, leases, and insurance coverage

- Reviewing all agreements and MoUs and appraise the management about any financial liability, prior to commitments made and signatures by authorized signatories

- Overseeing Admin, vendor, and office management to manage various facets of business - travel, corporate gifting, printing & stationery, etc

Desired Candidate Profile :

What you need to have :

- Qualified Chartered Accountant

- 5+ years of experience that is relevant to the above role

- Experience in a startup is preferred

- Good understanding of, interest in, and aptitude for financial accounting, business, and financial analysis, GST, Income Tax, Companies Act, etc.

- Attention to detail, strong analytical skills, business awareness, and problem-solving skills

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Ability to work under pressure and deliver high-quality work with tight timelines

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Women-friendly workplace:

Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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