Finance Controller - Chartered Accountant - Diversity Hiring

Finance Controller - (Diversity Hiring)

Permanent

Trivandrum, Kerala

Experience : 12 to 20 years

Job Description

The Finance Controller is responsible for end-to-end financial controllership for ITES operations, covering accounting, financial & regulatory reporting, audit, taxation, treasury, revenue accounting, and internal controls. The role ensures accuracy, compliance, governance, and process excellence across finance operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Digital Finance Transformation & Controllership

• Lead digital finance transformation by deploying and enhancing ERP platforms, cloud-based finance systems, and intelligent workflows to enable scalable, touchless finance operations.
• Drive adoption of AI and advanced analytics for predictive forecasting, anomaly detection, and real-time financial insights to support faster and smarter decision-making.
• Implement process automation (RPA, OCR, GenAI tools) across finance processes to reduce manual effort, improve data accuracy, and accelerate reporting cycles.
• Collaborate with transformation teams to identify, pilot, and scale emerging finance technologies, ensuring alignment with ITES business models and future-ready finance architecture.

Accounting & Financial Close

• Own end-to-end governance of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and strict adherence to closing timelines in compliance with Ind-AS and IFRS.
• Review and approve key accounting judgments, including accruals, provisions, reclassifications, intercompany transactions and other operating expenses.
• Ensure consistent application of accounting policies across the process.
• Oversee general ledger health, including periodic ledger scrutiny, ageing reviews, and resolution of complex accounting issues.
• Govern balance sheet integrity, ensuring timely reconciliations, substantiation, and closure of open items.
• Ensure accounting readiness for statutory reporting, audits, and group submissions.
• Manage foreign exchange exposure and accounting, including monitoring forex movements, remeasurement and translation, with hedging experience will be an added advantage

Audit & Assurance

• Act as the primary finance SPOC for statutory audit, internal audit, tax audit, and group audits and responsible for closure of audit within internal cutoff time.
• Plan and manage audit calendars, ensuring timely availability of schedules, data, and explanations.
• Prepare and review audit working papers, financial statements, notes, and management representations.
• Address audit observations, implement corrective actions, and track closure of audit findings.
• Ensure continuous audit readiness through strong documentation and reconciliations.

Financial & Regulatory Reporting

• Responsible for review of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports as per group reporting requirements.
• Prepare statutory financial statements, notes, and disclosures in compliance with applicable accounting standards.
• Ensure timely submission of group and local reporting packs, variance explanations, and analytical schedules.
• Manage intercompany reporting, confirmations, and reconciliation.
• Ensure consistency between general ledger, sub-ledgers, and reported financials.
• Respond to ad-hoc reporting requirements from local leadership team and central finance and tax teams.

Qualification and Experience

• Chartered Accountant with 10-15 years of experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience in ITES Corporate sectors.

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