Financial Controller - FinTech

Our client is an established Fintech company

The role reports to the Growup CFO

Key Result Areas :

- Build productive working relationships with stakeholders in order to understand their business operations and the financial information needs of end users.

- Manage relationships with others across the company to achieve alignment in key business strategies and decisions.

- Manage the different Business units cash flows within available facilities, providing appropriate reporting to Executive Management.

- Collaborate, design, implement and review finance systems, policies and procedures to ensure continuous improvement and contemporary relevant practices.

- Ensure reporting functions and responses to ad hoc requests for financial related information are appropriately delivered.

- Preparation of annual budgets for the Business units

Financial Control

- Ensure weekly and monthly reporting on budget and business plan & continuous monitoring of the same

- Responsible for assessment of monthly performance, analysis of variance from budgets, identification of areas for corrective actions and risks

- Quarterly forecasting of annual results

- Establish systems and processes of ensuring adequate financial discipline and control and reporting on the same

- Set norms for cash management to enable prudent financial management and review the same frequently.

- Initiate and monitor cost reduction activities

Cost Control and Monitoring

- Partner with other departments to facilitate the annual planning process ensuring brand's/segment's interests are kept in mind

- Provide financial and cost review based on actual / budgets / commitments with head of departments, to identify, measure and monitor actions to control cost and to improve profitability and liquidity situation

- Provide reports for top management undertaking a comparative profitability study for the segment providing project wise/ region wise comparisons on productivity, costs etc.

- Participate in Budget and Operational reviews as the brand/segment representative critically examining alignment of annual budgets vis a vis the brand/segment strategy

- Monitor project performance throughout implementation and provide periodic reports in this respect

- Monitor and track the status of working capital and undertake measures to optimise the same

Person Profile :

- CA/ MBA Finance or equivalent qualification with 10 -15 years experience , atleast 3 years in a role where a person managed financial controller function

- Excellent Stakeholder Management - whether its leadership team inside, business unit or auditors

- Assertive with excellent written and verbal communication

- Capability to lead and develop a growing team