Finance Controller

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Job Title: Finance Controller

Location: Pune

Role Objective

Lead end-to-end controllership for a service entity (IT/ITES, Consulting, GCC/Shared Services, SaaS or professional services), ensuring on-time global close, accurate statutory reporting, robust intercompany governance, audit readiness, and strong internal controls, while driving process standardization and automation across the finance value chain.

Key Responsibilities

1) Fixed Assets Lease Accounting

• Manage FA lifecycle: capitalization, depreciation, transfers, disposals, impairment testing.
• Execute lease accounting (Ind AS 116) for ROU assets, lease liabilities, modifications.
• Conduct periodic FA verification and register-to-GL reconciliations.

2) Statutory Audit s Local Compliance

• Act as primary SPOC for statutory auditors; prepare financial statements, notes, disclosures, and audit schedules.
• Ensure timely closure of audit observations, CARO/IFC points, and management letters.
• Oversee compliance with Companies Act, GST, TDS, Income Tax, and other local filings; maintain a regulatory calendar.

3) Internal Controls, SOX/IFC s Governance

• Design/maintain RCMs and control narratives; support walkthroughs, testing (TOD/TOE), and remediation.
• Enforce maker-checker, segregation of duties, DOA, and evidence-based controls across close, IC, revenue, payables, and payroll.
• Lead control remediation and post-audit action plans with measurable due dates.

4) Stakeholder s Leadership Management

• Partner with global controllers, FPsA, Tax, Treasury, HR, Procurement, and Internal Audit.
• Support management reviews, board/leadership asks, and ad-hoc global requests with timely, high-quality analysis.

Required Qualifications

• CA/ CA Inter with 8-10 years PQE in MNC/GCC/service-sector controllership.
• Demonstrated ownership of month-end close, statutory audit, Ind AS financials, and SOX/IFC controls.
• Hands-on intercompany experience: multi-entity, multi-currency IC reconciliations, confirmations, eliminations, and TP coordination.
• Strong ERP proficiency (SAP/Oracle/NetSuite/S/4HANA preferred).
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and deadline discipline across time zones.

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