Description:

Role Overview:

As Senior Manager Finance Controllership (P2P & Inventory), you will own end-to-end controllership outcomes across Procure-to-Pay and Inventory accounting, ensuring that high-volume operational activity translates into accurate, timely, and audit-ready numbers.

This role sits at the intersection of Finance Operations, Business Finance, Supply Chain, and Technology, and is responsible for strengthening financial controls, improving close quality, and building scalable processes as the business grows.

The role requires a hands-on leader who sets high standards, dives deep into problem areas, and builds scalable processes.

Key Responsibilities:

End-to-End Controllership Ownership

- Own controllership outcomes across Procure-to-Pay and Inventory Accounting, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial reporting.

- Define, implement, and enforce accounting policies for purchase provisions, debit note provisions, Inventory valuation, inventory in transit, and aged inventory including its provisioning.

- Ensure balance sheet integrity through robust reconciliations, documentation, and review mechanisms.

Month-End Close & P&L Integrity:

- Own month-end close for P2P and inventory-related accounts, ensuring on-time close with minimal post-close adjustments.

- Review and approve provisions, accruals, and key journal entries prepared by the team.

- Understand operational inventory movements, validate quantity walks, valuation logic, and COGS flows to ensure accurate COGS and gross margin reporting.

- Partner with Business Finance & Central FP&A to bridge Business EOM metrics with book numbers, identify variances, and drive root-cause resolution.

Leadership & People Management:

- Lead, mentor, and develop team, setting clear ownership, review standards, and performance expectations.

- Lead by example by taking end-to-end ownership, diving deep into problem areas, and driving timely, high-quality outcomes.

- Build depth within the team to reduce key-person dependency during close and audit cycles.

Cross-Functional Partnership:

- Act as the primary finance SPOC for P2P and inventory matters with Fin-Ops, Proc-Ops, Business Finance, and Technology teams.

- Influence upstream operational and system changes to prevent downstream accounting issues.

- Partner with Tech to ensure system design, integrations, and data flows support correct accounting treatment and reporting needs at scale.

Audit, Compliance & Due Diligence Readiness:

- Own statutory audits, internal audits, and investor due diligence for P2P and inventory-related areas.

- Maintain an always-audit-ready posture through strong controls, reconciliations, and documentation.

- Proactively identify control gaps and drive remediation before issues surface in audits.

Process Excellence & Automation:

- Identify and lead initiatives to simplify, standardize, and automate reconciliations, reporting, and book close activities.

- Drive adoption of SOPs, control checklists, and review frameworks to reduce manual effort and close risk.

- Use data and metrics to continuously improve close timelines, accuracy, and controllership maturity.

Basic Qualifications:

- Chartered Accountant (CA) with 58 years of experience in controllership, financial reporting, or accounting leadership roles.

- Strong hands-on experience in P2P accounting, Inventory accounting, Month-end close and Balance sheet controls in high-volume environments.

- Proven experience managing and reviewing work of qualified finance professionals.

- Deep understanding of IND-AS, audit requirements and internal control framework.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in e-commerce, marketplace, retail-tech, or consumer internet businesses with Inventory complexity.

- Exposure to ERPs such as SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, NetSuite, or equivalent systems.

- Demonstrated ability to drive process automation and system-led controls

- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without authority

Why Join Udaan:

- Own a mission-critical controllership charter in a fast-scaling e-commerce business.

- Lead and shape a high-impact finance team with real ownership and visibility.

- Opportunity to build finance processes and controls that will scale with the business over the long term.