India Finance Controller

**Role Summary**
- Reporting to the APJ Regional Financial Controller you will be responsible for all aspects of financial accounting for India. This includes treasury, fixed assets, indirect tax, internal audit, and statutory audit as well as management of month end accounting and commercial support for the business.

**What you will do**:

- Responsible for Financial Control Reporting and analysis for variances to Plan/Forecast.
- Responsible for all accounting work and month-end closing procedures to strict closing deadlines.
- Ownership of all balance sheet account reconciliations to be performed/reviewed monthly. Prepare all information for review with APJ Regional Financial Controller monthly.
- Co-ordinate detailed cash flow reporting for the country monthly and ensure that corporate treasury policy is followed throughout.
- Ensure compliance with all internal policies and controls (e.g. expenses, travel policy, billing policy etc.), providing review and sign-off.
- Responsible for ensuring statutory reporting requirements are met and co-ordinating the annual audit/internal audit for each of the entities.
- Responsible for intercompany recharges and compliance with Tax/FEMA regulations and ensuring the transfer pricing compliance monthly.
- Ensure local indirect tax (GST) / foreign currency (FEMA) compliance and filing requirements.
- Own the local relationship with the auditors and other financial & legal advisors.
- Responsible for ensuring that the needs for systems improvements and process changes are represented at a global level and the roll out of the resulting improvements are successfully implemented.
- Work closely with the Financial Operating Team to constantly improve shared service activities - in particular the local Payroll, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables collection and Credit Control functions throughout the country.
- Support the local management teams to drive results and constantly improve operational performance to ensure growth over the prior year and achievement of the budget and cash flow target in constant currency.
- Work closely with Commercial Finance, Sales Operations and the local management teams to put to together the budget and forecast - and ensure particular focus on the underlying detail at constant currency including the quota stacks by sales executive.

**What you will bring**:

- A total and relevant experience of at least 6-8 years of Financial Accounting / Finance control.
- Practical long-term experience of all aspects of the month end and annual closing accounting and planning processes and of leading others to deliver these requirements.
- Understanding the Business - Financial Acumen.
- Experience working with external auditors and tax advisors.
- Strong experience with Reporting and analytics.
- Working within a software or technology company, ideally a global organization.
- Understanding of the IFRS accounting practice.
- Management of the functions of debt collection, payroll, and procurement.
- Accounting qualification / certification - ACA, ACCA equivalent is mandatory.

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