Financial Controller

**Purpose of Position** - Heading the FP&A function of Finance organization, GVR India
GVR India is seeking a Financial Controller to lead the Accounting and Financial Controlling function at Mumbai location. Reporting to the India Finance Director, the Financial Controller is responsible for managing the day to day, operational and technical accounting requirements for the India Region to ensure internal and external reporting and compliance requirements are met across global and local corporate, statutory, regulatory, and head office requirements. This position has the responsibility to create and maintain an environment of robust and effective financial reporting processes, procedures, and controls. The role also oversees the leads managing the transaction processing for India Region from the COE at Bengaluru and is responsible for driving process excellence, achievement of KPIs/SLAs and a customer driven culture. The Finance Controller responsible for O2C including AR collections, P2P, R2R processes as well as Taxation - both Direct and Indirect.

The finance controlling lead will have future opportunities to take on expanded leadership roles within the GVR and / or Vontier organization.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- The role and responsibilities will include:

- **Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual (US and Indian statutory) close activities.**:

- Ensure that all KPIs and SLAs are met by the Financial Accounting-Reporting and Transaction Processing/COE teams.
- Adherence to requirements of 100% on time, error-free and compliance to Gaap requirements
- **Transaction accounting**:

- Oversee the checks and controls around day-do-day transaction accounting in O2C, P2P and R2R processes including banking, credit cards an, payment processes.
- Ensure necessary approvals are in place for the above including adherence to the applicable Delegation of Authority DOA
- Transaction related processes to ensure finance policies and processes are effective and same are adhered to by business.
- **Reporting financials**:

- Oversee the preparation of all financial and statutory reports for Group reporting, audit, balance sheet review, statutory books of accounts.
- Responsible for completion of month end including the external audit of the Company.
- Ensure review, reconciliation, and commentary of trial balance accounts.
- Regularly review and update systems and processes to identify and embed efficiencies, standardise, and automate reporting across the Financial Control functions.
- **Forecasting and budgeting**:

- Work closely with the FP&A, Commercial Control and Plant Controller to complete the Groups forecasts.
- **Additional responsibilities**

**AR**
- Oversee AR collections and along with the AR Manager partner with business to ensure that collections targets-cashflow targets, lowering past due AR and limit impact of CECL reserves.
- Oversee the functioning of the credit policy.

**Banking and treasury**
- Monitoring liquidity levels and investments, utilisation of funded/non-funded limits and fx transactions.
- Drive opportunities for trade finance to reduce working capital.

**Capex**
- Overall monitoring of capex spends track against budget and evaluate spend for returns.

**Insurance**
- Ensuring cover and cost of Company-wide insurance and HR business partner for employee/contractor’s insurance

**Taxes**
- Oversee and along with Tax Manager and hold responsibility for all local tax matters including direct, indirect tax, transfer pricing/inter-company arrangements, assessments-litigation and manage risks and opportunities offered by Country taxations rules and changes thereto.
- Working alongside external tax advisors and CFO to be responsible for all tax matters (annual tax calculations, payments, filings).
- Lead tax planning and strategy for India region.
- Be the HR partner for payroll tax impacts.
- Support Global tax team in completing reporting and compliance deliverables.
- **Compliance, controls, and risk monitoring**:

- Design, implement and maintain the internal control and governance framework.
- Roll out Group policies and ensure approvals for any exceptions.
- Keep abreast of technical changes that impact GVR and deploy changes to ensure compliance.
- Support the CoE - Review and update systems and processes to identify and embed efficiencies, standardize and automate reporting across the accounting functions and ensure finance policies and processes are effective and adhered to by the business.
- Optimise the corporate structure, review, and publish technical papers as required.
- Tracking and escalation of compliances to local laws, applicable foreign regulations and GVR-Vontier processes and policies
- Track and control to limit risks from contingent liabilities, exposures in leasing (if any) and such other contingent/potential liabilities.
- Ensure controls for Segregation of Duties SOD, Delegation of Authority DOA and avoidance of Conflict-of-Interest COI including in the ERP/o