Finance Controller

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage FP&A, budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.
• Prepare and analyze P&L, MIS, Budget vs Actuals and variance reports.
• Drive monthly/quarterly financial reporting and business reviews.
• Perform revenue, cost and expense analysis and identify improvement opportunities.
• Support business teams and management with financial insights and decision-making.
• Manage rolling forecasts, financial models and KPI reporting.
• Analyze working capital, profitability and business performance.
• Drive process automation and standardization using advanced Excel/ERP tools.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams such as Sales, Operations, Supply Chain and Business teams.
• Support management presentations, strategic planning and ad-hoc financial analysis.

Preferred Profile

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA).
• 6.5–10 years of relevant experience in finance/accounting.
• Strong hands-on experience in MIS, AP/P2P, controllership, audit and compliance.
• Experience with India and US finance operations / US GAAP.
• Exposure to startup/product/SaaS environments preferred.
• Experience with fundraising, due diligence or investor reporting is a strong advantage.
• Prior experience working with Founders/CXOs/Leadership preferred.

Company Overview

 Industry: Personal Care / D2C (Direct-to-Consumer)

 Founded: 2023

 Headquarters: Mumbai, India

 Company Size: Approximately 11–50 employees

 Business Model: Primarily D2C through its own e-commerce platform, supported by content-led marketing and creator-driven community building

Finance is not just a support function here - it's central to strategy, decision-making, and scaling the business

sustainably. We are seeking a Finance & Strategy Lead who combines sharp financial expertise with strategic vision,

and who has the credibility to partner with senior leaders and the board. This role is designed for someone with

future CFO potential.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Finance & Business Partnering

●Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.

●Partner directly with business leaders on strategic initiatives, investment cases, and growth opportunities.

●Present business performance, insights, and recommendations to the CEO, board, and senior leadership team.

●Act as a thought partner to challenge assumptions, evaluate risks, and ensure robust decision-making.

Corporate Finance & Growth Strategy

●Drive capital allocation, fundraising, and investor relations strategy.

●Lead financial due diligence, scenario analysis, and long-term planning.

●Provide insights on market trends, competitive positioning, and strategic growth opportunities.

Financial Control & Governance

●Ensure strong compliance, risk management, and governance frameworks.

●Oversee accounting, audits, tax, and regulatory requirements with internal teams and external advisors.

●Continuously improve financial systems, reporting accuracy, and process scalability.

Leadership & Influence

●Mentor and build a high-performing finance team with scalable systems.

●Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO and executive team.

●Engage effectively with the board and external stakeholders, demonstrating credibility and the ability to hold ground in strategic discussions.

●Evolve into a broader leadership role with increasing ownership of finance and operations.

Reporting & Financial Insights

●Manage the end-to-end MIS process, providing precise reporting across P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.

●Monitor liquidity by tracking burn rates and runway to ensure the leadership team has absolute visibility into working capital.

●Develop board materials and investor communications, distilling complex financial results into a compelling narrative regarding performance and future outlook.

●Function as the lead liaison for investor diligence while overseeing that all statutory audits and reporting remain compliant and timely.

Qualifications & Skills

●Chartered Accountant (CA) qualification strongly preferred; CFA/MBA Finance a plus.

●Strong track record in financial modeling, capital raising, and strategic problem-solving.

●Demonstrated ability to work with boards, investors, and senior leadership teams.

●Exceptional communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.

●Entrepreneurial mindset with ambition to step into a CFO role in the near future.

• Financial Reporting
• Preparation of monthly standalone and consolidated financial statements.
• Coordination with group entities for timely submission of monthly compliance requirements.
• Preparation of monthly expense variance analysis and reporting to management.
• Compliance & Audit
• Addressing monthly requirements of Adani Group and other stakeholders.
• Coordinating with statutory auditors / Internal Auditors for quarterly closures and ensuring timely completion.
• Performing quarterly 26AS reconciliation with books of accounts.
• Fixed Assets & Banking
• Managing and reviewing the consolidated fixed assets register, including monthly computation and reconciliation.
• Handling monthly banking requirements related to company financiers and ensuring smooth liaison with banks.
• General Responsibilities
• Supporting management in ad-hoc requirements related to finance, accounting, and compliance.
• Assisting in process improvements, system enhancements, and strengthening internal controls.

Finance Controller

BondScanner | Sustvest Broking Pvt. Ltd.

Location: Bangalore (in-office)

Reports to: Co-Founder & CEO

Experience: 8–10 years; CA qualified (mandatory)

Scope: Controllership + asset-liability / treasury management for the BondScanner entity

Team: Builds and leads a small finance function

About BondScanner

BondScanner is India's retail-native bond platform — operated by Sustvest Broking Pvt. Ltd., a SEBI-

registered Online Bond Platform Provider (OBPP). We give retail Indian investors zero-brokerage

access to listed corporate bonds and government securities. Built on rails proven by our predecessor

platform Tap Invest, which served HNI investors at meaningful scale, BondScanner is the retail

expansion of that thesis — and one of the fastest-growing platforms in India's bond market. We're

backed by leading fintech founders and institutional investors, and we're scaling fast.

Why this role matters

As a SEBI-registered stockbroker, BondScanner runs on a foundation of trust — client funds

segregation, daily reconciliation, and clean books are not back-office hygiene, they are the licence to

operate. You will own the finance function end-to-end for the entity: the books, the regulatory filings, the

audits, the client-funds discipline, and the liquidity and capital management that keep us compliant and

investor-ready as we scale. This is a build-and-own role reporting directly to the CEO, with a clear path

to Head of Finance as the business grows.

What you'll own

1. Controllership

• Books of accounts and IndAS-compliant financial statements for Sustvest Broking — accurate,

timely, and audit-ready.

• Statutory and tax audits, internal audits, and SEBI / exchange inspections — owning

preparation, response, and remediation end-to-end.

• All statutory and regulatory filings: SEBI half-yearly net worth certificates, NSE/BSE stockbroker

compliance returns, GST, TDS, advance tax, and MCA filings.

• Monthly MIS and management reporting for the founders and board, with a clean, reconciled

view of revenue, costs, and profitability.

2. Client funds & settlement discipline

• Daily and weekly reconciliation of client funds across pool and settlement accounts, ensuring

complete segregation from the firm's own funds.

• Ownership of the upstreaming of client funds to the clearing corporation and the weekly

settlement / running-account settlement obligations under SEBI rules.

• Settlement reconciliations with exchanges and clearing corporations, and OBPP-specific

reporting under the SEBI Master Circular for Stock Brokers.

• Zero tolerance for client-funds shortfalls — you treat the weekly settlement report as a hard,

penalty-bearing deadline, not an accounting nicety.

3. Asset-liability & treasury management

• Manage the entity's liquidity — ensuring funds are available to meet settlement obligations on

time, every cycle.

• Maintain net worth and regulatory capital comfortably above SEBI minimums; model capital

requirements as transaction volumes scale.

• Own day-to-day cash management, bank relationships, and the firm's own treasury (distinct

from client funds).

• Build the liquidity and capital dashboards the founders need to monitor the entity's financial

health in real time.

4. Audit, fundraise & team

• Lead financial diligence support for fundraising rounds — data room, MIS packs, investor Q&A,

and audit coordination.

• Build and maintain a clean, audit-ready data room from day one, so every round and inspection

finds the books in order.

• Hire, lead, and develop a small finance team across accounts, treasury, and compliance

operations.

• Choose and scale the finance stack — ERP, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting tools —

that supports the next phase of growth.

Who you are

Must-have

• CA qualified (Chartered Accountant) — mandatory.

• 8–10 years of post-qualification experience, with meaningful time in a regulated financial

services entity — stockbroker, NBFC, bank, asset manager, or large fintech.

• Hands-on experience with controllership: books, statutory audits, regulatory filings, and board-

level financial reporting.

• Strong understanding of client funds handling, reconciliation, and settlement — or the ability to

ramp on it quickly from an adjacent regulated background.

• Strong IndAS, GST, and direct tax fundamentals.

• Proven ability to build process and lead a small team.

Strongly preferred

• Direct experience in a SEBI-registered stockbroker or OBPP, with familiarity with the Master

Circular for Stock Brokers.

• Experience handling SEBI / exchange inspections first-hand.

• Exposure to a fundraise on the finance side — diligence, data room, investor MIS.

• Familiarity with bond / fixed-income market mechanics — settlement, CCIL, NSDL/CDSL flows.

How you operate

• You're paranoid about reconciliations. A 1% mismatch keeps you up; a 0.01% mismatch makes

you find the bug.

• You're as comfortable in a regulator's office as in a founder offsite, and you can switch registers

without changing the truth.

• You take ownership without being asked. If something's broken in finance, it's yours to fix.

• You think in systems, not tickets — you'd rather fix the root cause once than patch the symptom

monthly.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation benchmarked to senior fintech roles in Bangalore, with meaningful

ESOPs.

• A direct line to the CEO and a seat at the table as we scale and raise.

• The chance to build a finance function from the ground up at one of India's fastest-growing bond

platforms.

• A clear path to Head of Finance as the business grows.