Manager Finance Controller

Manager — Finance & Controllership

About the Role

Terrum Group is a real estate and technology holding company operating four businesses — Terrum (development management and JV/JD partnerships), Vantage (AI-driven feasibility, design and visualisation), Bind (construction finance facilitation) and EasyKey (residential sales and mortgage origination) — across multiple legal entities, project SPVs and partner structures.

This role owns the finance function end to end, day to day. Accounting, controls, taxation, compliance, treasury operations, project finance administration, MIS and business partnering all sit here. Capital raising does not — that stays with the founder and the deal team, and you will support it with numbers, not carry it.

This is the seat where the group's financial discipline is actually built. You will find a growing business with real transaction complexity and a finance stack that still needs to be systematised — which is precisely the opportunity.

What You Will Own

Accounting and controllership

• Own the books across all group entities, project SPVs and JV structures — accurate, current and closed to a calendar
• Monthly, quarterly and annual close: schedules, provisions, accruals, reconciliations, inter-company elimination and consolidation
• Revenue recognition and project accounting in line with Ind AS, including percentage-of-completion and cost-to-complete discipline where applicable
• Fixed assets, capital work-in-progress, inventory and land cost capitalisation policy and registers

Taxation and statutory compliance

• Direct tax: advance tax, TDS/TCS computation, deposit and return filing, income tax returns, tax audit coordination and assessment support
• Indirect tax: GST computation, filings, input credit reconciliation (GSTR-2B versus books), annual return and audit, and RCM discipline
• Corporate secretarial and ROC compliance in coordination with the company secretary — board and shareholder resolutions, annual filings, statutory registers
• Real estate specific compliance: RERA designated account operation and withdrawal certification, project-level reporting, and stamp duty and registration cost tracking
• Track regulatory change and flag exposure before it becomes a notice

Treasury and cash management

• Own the group cash position: daily bank operations, rolling 13-week cash flow forecast and liquidity planning across entities
• Banking relationships and operations — account management, mandates, escrow and designated account discipline, FD and surplus deployment
• Loan and facility administration: drawdown documentation, end-use certification, interest and repayment servicing, covenant tracking and lender reporting for existing facilities
• Working capital management — receivables follow-up, payables scheduling and vendor payment cycles

Budgeting, MIS and business partnering

• Build and run the annual budget and rolling forecast; own variance analysis at entity, business unit and project level
• Produce the monthly MIS pack: P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, unit economics and the two or three numbers each business head actually needs
• Project cost control — budget versus actual on construction and development spend, cost-to-complete tracking and change order impact
• Partner with business heads on pricing, margin and spend decisions; be the person who says the number is wrong before the decision is made

Payables, receivables and payouts

• Vendor and contractor payments: bill verification against work certification, PO and contract terms, retention and mobilisation advance tracking
• Customer collections and demand generation on sold inventory; ageing control and follow-up discipline
• Brokerage and channel partner payout processing and reconciliation, including the mortgage and referral incentive structures
• Payroll processing, reimbursements and related statutory deductions in coordination with HR

Audit, controls and systems

• Run statutory, tax and internal audits to a clean close — schedules ready, queries answered, observations remediated
• Design and enforce internal controls: delegation of authority, approval matrices, segregation of duties, vendor onboarding and payment controls
• Own the finance stack — ERP or accounting system, banking integrations and reporting tooling; drive automation of reconciliations, MIS and payouts rather than adding headcount to them
• Maintain audit-ready documentation across entities and transactions

What You Must Have

• Chartered Accountant (or MBA Finance / CMA with strong controllership grounding) with 6-8 years of post-qualification experience
• Real estate, infrastructure or construction sector experience — project accounting, developer or contractor finance, or audit of the same
• Full-cycle ownership of accounts and close across multiple entities, including consolidation
• Strong command of Indian GAAP / Ind AS, GST, TDS and corporate tax in practice, not in theory
• Hands-on treasury and banking operations experience, including facility servicing and lender reporting
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling; working proficiency with Tally, Zoho Books, SAP or a comparable ERP
• Judgement and spine — the willingness to hold a control when a business head is in a hurry
• Comfort in a founder-led environment where the process is often something you are expected to build, not follow

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience with RERA compliance and designated account mechanics
• Exposure to SPV, JV and JD structures and their accounting and tax treatment
• Prior ERP implementation or finance automation experience
• Big Four or reputed audit firm training followed by industry controllership

How Success Will Be Measured

• Close calendar met — books current, MIS delivered on date, every month
• Zero missed statutory deadlines and no avoidable interest, penalty or notice
• Clean audits with no material observations repeated year on year
• Cash forecast accuracy and no surprise liquidity events
• Reconciliations current — bank, GST, vendor, customer and channel partner payouts
• Measurable reduction in manual effort through systems and automation

Why This Seat

Most mid-level finance roles are a slice of a large function. This one is the whole function of a group with genuine transaction and structural complexity, reporting directly to the top. Build it well and the controllership seat is yours to grow into.

To apply:

Share your CV with a short note on the entity structure you currently handle, your monthly close timeline, and one control or process you introduced that stuck.