Financial Controller - Wellness/FMCG - CA

Our client is a D2C brand that produces specialty health and nutrition products. Launched in 2019, the healthcare startup today has over 100 products in the nutrition, wellness, and beauty space with a presence in more than 15 cities in the offline space as well as online through their own website and on all marketplaces.

The company is founded by veterans in the D2C space and the pharma manufacturing space. Their lead investor is one of the largest conglomerates in India that has large businesses in FMCG and IT sectors. With a strong and investors backing it, the brand is witnessing a 25% month-on-month growth in their topline and is on track to be a 100 cr brand within the next 2 years.

As a Financial Controller, you will be responsible for end to end financial management and accounting of the company including billing, regulatory and financial reporting, payroll, auditing, compliance as well as development of internal control policies and procedures.

What you will do :

- Handling all accounting operations including billing, cost accounting, inventory accounting, revenue recognition, accounts payable, accounts receivable etc

- Managing the generation of the annual budget and forecasts

- Checking Purchase order, Freight Inward, Outward and other expenses bills with their monthly reconciliation in Tally

- Ensuring inventories are suitably evaluated and slow moving inventories are liquidated on time

- Supporting year end closing activities

- Calculating all applicable taxes including GST and TDS

- Handling all types of audits including statutory audit, transfer pricing audit, GST audit, Income Tax audit etc.

- Complying with the government reporting requirements and tax filings

Desired Candidate Profile :

What you need to have :

- CA Qualification with overall 3 to 5 years of experience post-qualification preferably in FMCG companies

- Solid understanding of physical products like inventory, warehouse, logistics

- Experience in funded startup preferred

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills