Deputy Financial Controller

Role Objective

This is a controllership‑first role, with a strong emphasis on financial close discipline, audit readiness, and process stabilization.

The role is designed as a succession path to Financial Controller, making it ideal for a technically strong controller who is ready to step into a broader leadership role over time.

Core Responsibilities

1. Financial Close & Reporting

• Drive and enforce a disciplined monthly close calendar across all entities
• Ensure timely, accurate, and complete financial statements
• Perform and review:
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• AR/AP reconciliations
• Intercompany balances
• Prepare and deliver IFRS‑based consolidated financial statements (quarterly and annual)

2. Controllership & Accounting Operations

• Oversee end‑to‑end global accounting operations
• Supervise:
• Invoicing
• Receivables tracking
• Payables oversight
• Ensure accounting records are complete, accurate, well‑documented, and audit‑ready

3. Consolidation & Multi‑Currency Accounting

• Own global consolidation across multiple legal entities
• Manage:
• Intercompany reconciliations and eliminations
• FX translation and remeasurement under IFRS
• Maintain clean, well‑controlled consolidation schedules and supporting documentation

4. Audit, Compliance & Tax

• Lead financial and tax audits across multiple jurisdictions
• Coordinate with:
• External auditors
• Local accountants
• Tax advisors and consultants
• Ensure:
• Timely statutory filings
• Regulatory compliance in all countries
• Robust audit trails and documentation
• Build, maintain, and enforce group accounting policies

5. ERP Governance (Odoo)

• Own finance‑side governance of Odoo
• Strengthen system usage, controls, and data integrity
• Reduce manual workarounds and spreadsheet dependency
• Drive incremental optimizations (not a full ERP rebuild)

6. Fundraising & Due Diligence Readiness (Nice to Have)

• Support investor and lender due diligence processes
• Prepare:
• Data rooms
• Supporting schedules
• Reconciliations and explanatory analyses
• Ensure financials are clean, defensible, and investor‑ready

Candidate Profile

Experience

• ~10 years of experience in controllership or senior accounting roles
• Strong background in multi‑entity, multi‑currency environments
• Proven IFRS reporting and consolidation expertise
• Experience managing outsourced or offshore accounting teams
• Extensive audit exposure (multi‑jurisdiction preferred)
• Prior fundraising or due‑diligence involvement is a plus

Skills & Attributes

• Highly detail‑oriented controllership and audit mindset
• Strong discipline around financial close, reconciliations, and controls
• Solid technical understanding of:
• Consolidations
• Intercompany accounting
• FX treatment
• Ability to enforce process rigor across distributed teams
• Working knowledge of ERP systems (Odoo preferred)

Pay: Up to ₹5,200,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Commuter assistance
• Health insurance
• Internet reimbursement
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Provident Fund
• Work from home

Work Location: Remote