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Finance Controller (Finance & Accounts)/ 3 days ago

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Job Description:

• As Finance Controller, you will own the end-to-end finance function for a multi-city, project-based D&B business.
• You will work closely with the founders, ops leadership, and city heads to ensure financial clarity, healthy cash flows, and sound business-aligned decision-making.
• This is a hands-on leadership role — you will build and lead a finance team, drive process discipline without creating bureaucracy, and act as a genuine business partner across a rapidly growing portfolio. 
• Project Finance & Accounting.
• Own project-level P&L tracking across all active projects and cities.
• Maintain WIP (Work-in-Progress) accounting aligned with Ind AS 115 percentage-completion method.
• Set up milestone-based billing systems and follow-up protocols in coordination with PM teams. 
• Monitor project margins, flag cost overruns in real time, and provide financial inputs to ops leadership.
• Ensure BOQ-to-invoice reconciliation on both vendor and client sides MIS & Financial Reporting.
• Build and own monthly MIS covering revenue, cost, margin, billing, and collections.
• Present financial performance to founders and leadership on a monthly basis.
• Prepare annual budgets, quarterly reforecasts, and variance analyses by city and project portfolio.
• Support board and investor reporting as the business scales Compliance & Controls.
•  Manage GST compliance for works contracts — including RCM provisions, ITC reconciliation, and multi-state returns • Handle TDS, statutory filings, labour compliance (PF, ESIC), and ROC requirements.
• Own statutory, internal, and tax audit cycles; coordinate with external auditors
• Build and enforce financial controls, SOPs, and approval workflows Working Capital & Treasury.
• Manage cash flow planning and working capital cycles across a project-heavy business.
• Oversee vendor payment cycles — prioritisation, timelines, and dispute resolution.
•  Manage banking relationships — CC lines, bank guarantee facilities, and FD structures .
• Drive collections, reduce DSO, and ensure healthy receivables management 

Skills:

• Experience: 10+ years of post-qualification experience, with significant time in a project-based D&B, interior, real estate, or construction business
•  Qualification: Chartered Accountant (ICAI) — mandatory. CA Inter or MBA Finance profiles will not be considered for this role.
• Team Leadership: Directly managed a finance team of at least 4–5 people with full accountability for their output and development.
• Project Accounting: Proven hands-on experience with WIP accounting, percentage-completion revenue recognition, and project P&L management.
  Compliance: Deep working knowledge of GST for works contracts — RCM, ITC, multi-state compliance — along with TDS and statutory filings.
•  MIS Ownership: Must have independently built and owned MIS frameworks for management reporting — not just contributed to them.
•  Working Capital: Experience managing banking lines (CC, BG, LC facilities) and working capital in a project-based business .