Job Description
Finance Controller / Senior Manager - Finance Operations
Position
Finance Controller / Senior Manager - Finance & Accounts
Qualification
Chartered Accountant mandatory
Experience
8+ years post-qualification / relevant work experience
Reporting To
CFO / Promoter / Finance Head
Company Type
Promoter-led traditional Indian business house moving towards stronger professional systems
Role Nature
Overseeing finance operations; not a pure accounting-entry role
Role Summary
We are looking for a strong Chartered Accountant to take ownership of finance operations, accounts finalisation, statutory compliance, MIS, budgeting, product costing, bank coordination, credit rating work, and project-finance documentation. The person should be practical, execution-oriented, and comfortable working in a promoter-led environment where discipline, speed, accuracy, and follow-up matter.
Core Purpose of the Role
- Act as the execution backbone for the CFO / Finance Head.
- Bring reliability and discipline to monthly closing, statutory compliance, banking, MIS, and costing.
- Oversee accountants, juniors, consultants, auditors, banks, and external agencies.
- Convert finance from a record-keeping function into a management-control function.
Key Responsibilities1. Finalisation of Accounts
- Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual closing of books.
- Review Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Account, Trial Balance, ledgers, provisions, depreciation, related-party entries, and audit schedules.
- Ensure debtor, creditor, bank, stock, GST, TDS, and other reconciliations are completed before closing.
- Coordinate with statutory auditors and ensure audit queries are closed on time.
2. Statutory Compliance
- Ensure timely GST, TDS/TCS, income tax, advance tax, tax audit, and other periodic compliances.
- Review GST input credit, GSTR-2B reconciliation, blocked credit, and tax risk areas.
- Maintain a compliance calendar and ensure no deadline is missed.
- Coordinate with external consultants while retaining internal control over correctness.
3. Budgeting and Financial Planning
- Prepare annual and monthly budgets with variance analysis.
- Monitor cash flow, working capital, departmental expenses, capex, and profitability.
- Support management in projections, growth planning, and financial controls.
4. CMA Data / Project Report / Banking Documentation
- Prepare CMA data, project reports, cash-flow statements, fund-flow statements, and projected financials.
- Handle working-capital renewals, term-loan documentation, stock statements, drawing-power calculations, and bank queries.
- Coordinate with banks and ensure documentation is clean, timely, and defensible.
5. Department and Bank Correspondence
- Handle correspondence with banks, auditors, GST department, income tax department, credit rating agencies, consultants, and other external stakeholders.
- Prepare written replies, financial explanations, supporting schedules, and data packs.
6. MIS and Management Reporting
- Build periodic MIS for promoters and senior management.
- Track sales, gross margin, debtor ageing, creditor ageing, inventory, cash flow, bank-limit utilisation, expense trends, and department-wise performance.
- Present numbers clearly with conclusions, not just raw reports.
7. Product Costing
- Prepare and maintain product-wise and order-wise costing sheets.
- Track raw material price impact, conversion cost, freight, overheads, contribution, gross margin, and customer-wise profitability.
- Help management identify profitable and non-profitable orders/customers.
8. Equity Valuation and Investor Support
- Support company valuation workings, EBITDA analysis, projections, investor data-room preparation, and financial explanations.
- Help management defend assumptions and prepare investor-facing financial schedules.
9. External Credit Rating
- Coordinate with rating agencies for annual reviews and surveillance.
- Prepare data submissions, banking data, working capital notes, financial explanations, management comments, and query responses.
- Ensure the agency understands the company correctly and receives data on time.
Required Candidate Profile
- Qualified Chartered Accountant.
- Around 8+ years of strong company-side finance experience.
- Hands-on ability in accounts finalisation, GST/income tax compliance, banking, CMA, MIS, and costing.
- Strong Excel skills and comfort with Tally / ERP systems.
- Ability to manage accountants, external consultants, auditors, banks, and internal departments.
- High integrity and comfort handling confidential financial information.
- Practical business judgement: should understand compliance, but not become a bottleneck for operations.
Ideal Background
- Manufacturing company, trading company, infrastructure/materials company, or mid-sized Indian business.
- Experience in promoter-led / family-owned businesses is preferred.
- Exposure to bank limits, stock statements, CMA data, project reports, and external credit rating is important.
Not the Right Fit If
- The candidate has only audit-firm experience and no company-side ownership.
- The candidate only reviews work and cannot execute personally when required.
- GST, CMA, MIS, costing, or banking were always handled by someone else.
- The candidate is uncomfortable with promoter-led environments or urgent data requirements.
Recommended designation: Finance Controller
Pay: ₹1,200,000.00 - ₹1,500,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
