About the role

Job Overview

The Financial Controller is a senior leadership role in the CFO's Office, responsible for the integrity, timeliness and quality of financial reporting across Neo Group entities — Wealth Management, AMC, NBFC, Stock Broking, Insurance Broking, Merchant Banking, Custody and Treasury / Proprietary Trading. The FC will lead the entity controllership function and own the Group's month-end close and consolidation discipline. This is a high-ownership, build-oriented role suited to a Chartered Accountant who has led finance/controllership teams in a bank or a diversified, multi-entity financial services group, is comfortable operating with the rigor expected of a listed-company environment and is hands-on in designing and automating processes rather than merely overseeing them.

Job Responsibilities

1. Group Books, Consolidation & Month-End Close

Own the Group's month-end and quarter-end close calendar — driving all entity owners to close books within defined timelines, with a zero-surprise posture on material balances.
Set up and continuously strengthen the process for regular, timely monthly books closure across entities — standardising checklists, cut-off procedures, and close trackers.
Own Group consolidation — intercompany eliminations, minority interest, related-party schedules — and ensure entity numbers roll up accurately and on time into Group MIS.
Present consolidated Group financial dashboards and close-status updates.

2. Financial Statements, IND AS & Statutory Audit

Own the technical accuracy of standalone and consolidated Ind AS financial statements (Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash Flow, Notes to Accounts) across all Group entities.
Maintain strong domain knowledge of Ind AS — including Ind AS 109 / 113 / 107 / 32 (financial instruments), Ind AS 115 (revenue), Ind AS 116 (leases), Ind AS 12 (taxes) and Ind AS 110 / 28 (consolidation) and ensure correct, consistent application across entities.
Independently manage the Big 4 statutory audit relationship for the Group — drive the audit calendar, resolve complex technical and judgemental issues with Big 4 partners, and own audit closure.
Act as the escalation point for entity owners on audit and technical accounting matters that cannot be resolved at the entity level.

3. Internal Financial Controls and Process Rigour

Bring hands-on experience of a listed-company-grade control environment — board and audit committee reporting cadence, disclosure discipline, and the rigour of a public-company close — and apply that rigour to strengthen the Group's own control environment.
Design, document and operate the Group-wide Internal Financial Controls (IFC) framework — risk- and-control matrices, transaction-level controls and IT-dependent controls within Oracle Fusion — across entities.
Own resolution of statutory and internal audit observations across entities within committed timelines; escalate systemic control gaps.
Support the Group's Internal Auditor and any future Audit Committee requirements with schedules, responses and remediation tracking.

4. Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Management

Independently engage with cross-functional heads — Business, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Treasury, Technology — to resolve accounting, control and process issues.
Drive entity-level governance and management forums; act as a trusted counterpart to business heads on financial matters.
Liaise with the Tax Head, FP&A Head and AP Head to ensure closing, tax and payment processes are well-integrated across the close cycle.

5. Process Improvement & Automation

Bring a strong bent towards automation — hands-on in identifying manual, repetitive tasks in the close and reporting cycle and redesigning them with Excel automation, Power Automate, or AI-based tools.
Document and version-control SOPs for all key controllership processes across entities, ensuring processes are audit-ready and succession-proof.

Preferred Skills

Chartered Accountant with 15 years of post-qualification experience.
Experience in the Banking industry or a diversified financial services group, with direct exposure to Wealth Management, Asset Management, Proprietary Trading / Treasury and NBFC businesses.
Prior exposure to a listed-company environment / set-up, and a demonstrated hands-on track record of setting up finance processes with a clear bent towards automation — not just operating existing ones.
Strong domain knowledge of Ind AS, with the ability to independently resolve complex technical accounting issues.
Demonstrated experience dealing with Big 4 auditors — driving audit closure and independently handling complex issues directly with Big 4 partners.
Track record of independently engaging and managing cross-functional heads (Business, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Technology) without needing escalation.
Hands-on experience setting up and running a disciplined, timely monthly books closure process across multiple entities.
Exposure to Oracle Fusion or a comparable ERP (SAP) in a multi-entity environment.
Working knowledge of Group consolidation, related-party accounting and minority interest treatment.
Familiarity with RBI (NBFC), SEBI (AIF / MF / Broking) and IRDAI regulations, as applicable to a diversified financial services group.

Behavioral Attributes

Owns outcomes end-to-end — treats the Group's books and controls as their own and does not wait to be directed.
Builds for scale — process-first mindset, documents before doing, and designs with automation in mind.
Leads from the front — comfortable being hands-on with detail while managing and developing a team.
Straight communicator — surfaces issues early, escalates the right things to the Group CFO, and is comfortable saying no when something is non-compliant.

Finance Controller