Finance Controller

Position: Finance Controller

Location: Bangalore

️ Working Days: Monday to Friday

Experience Required: 10+ years

The Role

The Financial Controller owns the controllership backbone — FinOps, Company Secretarial, and Taxation (Direct & Indirect) — ensuring the company's books, compliances, and statutory obligations are accurate, timely, and audit-ready at all times.

This is a core finance leadership role reporting to the Head of Finance. You will take end-to-end ownership of the FinOps, Secretarial, and Tax functions, drive statutory and internal audits to clean closure, and build the governance and SOPs needed for a best-in-class controllership function.

Your mandate is to build a controllership function so disciplined that audits close clean, compliances never lapse, and the Head of Finance and leadership can rely on your numbers without question.

Reporting & Interfaces

• Reports to: Head of Finance
• Team Owned: Fin Ops Controller, AR Leads & Support, Secretarial (Outsourced), Tax — TDY / DT & IDT (Outsourced)
• Internal Interfaces: Head of Finance, Business Finance, Legal, Sales, Supply Chain, HR
• External Interfaces: Statutory Auditors, Internal Auditors, Banks, Tax Consultants, Company Secretary / RoC, GST Authorities

What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)

Within the first quarter, success in this role would mean:

• Month 1 — Understand: Develop a complete, ground-level understanding of all FinOps, Secretarial, and Tax requirements, current processes, and open items.
• Month 2 — Diagnose & Build: Identify gaps in the current process and build the process, governance, and SOPs required for a best-in-class controllership function.
• Month 3 — Advise & Drive: Operate as a trusted advisor to the Head of Finance and management. Drive monthly book closure to 5 working days, enabling MIS & reporting to close by 7 working days.

What You'll Own

• FinOps & Controllership
• Take complete ownership of the FinOps function, including the Fin Ops Controller, AR Leads, and Support team
• Own end-to-end accounting, reconciliations, and monthly book closure
• Drive monthly book closure to 5 working days, enabling MIS & reporting to close by 7 working days
• Build and sustain strong internal controls, documentation, and reconciliation discipline
• Statutory Audit, Internal Audit & Compliance
• Own Statutory Audit, Internal Audit, and all other compliance matters end-to-end
• Ensure every matter identified by auditors is tracked to closure and does not recur in future audits
• Build an audit-issue tracker and governance cadence with clear ownership and timelines
• Be the primary point of contact for auditors and drive a culture of clean, first-time-right compliance
• Company Secretarial
• Own all company secretarial matters, internal and external, without exception
• Ensure Board/RoC filings, statutory registers, and minutes are accurate, timely, and tracked to closure
• Manage the outsourced secretarial partner and ensure zero non-compliance
• Taxation (Direct & Indirect)
• Own the direct and indirect tax function end-to-end, including GST, TDS/TCS, and direct tax
• Manage the outsourced tax partner (TDY / DT & IDT) and ensure timely, accurate filings
• Drive assessments, notices, and tax positions to closure in partnership with external advisors
• Banking, Treasury & External Stakeholders
• Develop and maintain strong operational relationships with banking partners
• Own day-to-day banking operations, documentation, and limit management
• Support the Head of Finance on treasury planning and fund-raising readiness
• Leadership & Governance
• Build, mentor, and manage a high-quality FinOps and controllership team
• Operate as a trusted advisor to the Head of Finance and management by Month 3
• Institutionalise SOPs and governance so controllership quality does not depend on any one individual

Authority & Decision Rights

• Sign-off on monthly book closure and reconciliations
• Escalate and drive audit findings to closure within agreed timelines
• Oversee and approve deliverables from outsourced Secretarial and Tax partners
• Day-to-day authority over banking operational matters, within agreed limits
• Direct access to the Head of Finance on compliance, audit, and controllership risks

Who You Are

Mandatory

• Chartered Accountant (CA)
• 10 years of post-qualification experience (PQE), with a track record in Financial Controller roles
• Demonstrated growth into leadership, having managed a finance team
• Strong hands-on exposure to statutory/internal audits, company secretarial matters, and direct/indirect tax

Strongly Preferred

• Experience in D2C consumer brands
• Prior ownership of banking relationships and treasury operations
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, founder-led environment

How You Show Up

You Bring

• Rigor and attention to detail across books, controls, and compliance
• An ownership mindset — you close items, you don't just track them
• The ability to build process and governance from scratch, not just operate within it
• Clear, calm communication that earns the confidence of leadership, auditors, and bankers alike
• A collaborative approach, balanced with the ability to hold the line on controls and compliance

Compensation Philosophy

Fixed compensation aligned with market benchmarks for Financial Controller-level roles

Performance-linked Variable Tied To

• Book closure timeliness (5 working-day close / 7 working-day MIS)
• Audit and compliance closure rate, with zero repeat findings
• Secretarial and tax compliance robustness
• Quality and reliability of banking relationships

Long-term incentives may be considered for exceptional impact and ownership.