Finance Controller

**Company Profile**:candi is a dedicated solar partner for businesses across Asia and Africa. Combining the international capital of our Swiss-based platform with local expertise in these regions, we’re able to provide a unique offering to this underserved sector. In doing so, we aim to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets.**

**Key Responsibilities**

**Financial Accounting & Reporting**
- Oversee day-to-day accounting operations including GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Payroll accounting, and Intercompany transactions.
- Ensure accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closings.
- Prepare and review financial statements in compliance with **IND AS / IFRS / US GAAP** as applicable.
- Manage consolidation and reporting to headquarters (HQ) within corporate timelines.
- Oversee statutory compliance (GST, TDS, Income Tax), audit, regulatory filings, and internal control matters.

**Internal Controls & Process Improvement**
- Maintain and strengthen internal control systems in line with **SOX / global control frameworks**.
- Develop, document, and improve accounting policies and procedures.
- Identify process automation and standardization opportunities across entities

**Cash, Treasury & Working Capital Management**
- Support smooth month-end and year-end closing by ensuring timely availability of treasury-related data.
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies and internal controls for all treasury-linked transactions
- Reconcile bank statements and ensure proper recording of interest income, forex adjustments, and related transactions.

**Audit, Process Improvement & Internal Controls**
- Liaise with external auditors, lead internal audits, compile documentation, resolve queries, champion robust process improvements, automation, ERP implementations, and implementation of best financial practices as the company scales.

**Compliance, Payroll & Statutory Requirements**.
- Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements (Companies Act, Income Tax, GST, FEMA, etc.).
- Liaise with statutory, internal, and tax auditors for timely completion of audits.
- Ensure timely and accurate compliance with all local tax laws, GST, TDS, payroll processing, labor, and statutory regulations
- Manage corporate filings, ROC submissions, and board reporting requirements.

**Team Leadership, Partnering & Development**
- Provide timely financial insights and analysis to support management decisions.
- Collaborate with FP&A and business teams on budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Support corporate initiatives such as ERP enhancements, M&A integrations, and global finance transformation projects.
- Train, mentor, and develop a high-performing finance team; drive collaboration with commercial, operations, and global finance teams; manage cross-team communication.

**Qualifications & Requirements**
- Chartered Accountant (CA) or equivalent (mandatory)
- 8-10 years’ post-qualification finance experience, ideally with 3-5 years in supervisory/leadership roles
- Proven track record in financial controllership, accounting principles, compliance, statutory and regulatory frameworks
- Experience in renewable energy, infrastructure, technology sector, or multi-location organizations preferred
- Strong expertise in Indian GAAP, tax regulations, financial systems, budgeting, and financial analysis
- Prior exposure to fundraising, investor reporting, or project finance is a plus
- Proficiency in Tally/ERP, SAP/Oracle, advanced Excel, MS Office and presentation tools
- Excellent analytical, organizational, leadership, and communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver to deadlines
- Willingness to travel to Candi Solar project sites and regional offices as needed

**Working Culture**:

- You agree to live out the Candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put _empathy before ego_, being _authentic no matter what_, that we _get it done as one_ and follow the Candi principle that _less is more_
- A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
- Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
- You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
- Candi is an equal opportunities employer.

**Candi is unique because...**
- We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean solar energy.
- We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
- We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.