Manager – Finance Controls & Governance
Role Purpose
To strengthen the Finance control setting by ensuring adherence to
approved SOPs, monitoring financial and system controls, overseeing
reconciliations, and driving timely resolution of exceptions. The role acts as the
first line of defense within Finance to ensure financial processes are accurate,
compliant, well-governed, and audit-ready.
Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Controls & Governance
Ensure adherence to approved Finance SOPs, policies, and internal control
frameworks.
Monitor key financial processes and identify control gaps and improvement
opportunities.
Conduct periodic control reviews and ensure timely implementation of
corrective actions.
Drive process standardization, automation, and continuous improvement
initiatives.
2. Reconciliations & Exception Management
Oversee critical reconciliations, including bank, GL, settlement, and
suspense accounts.
Monitor ageing of unreconciled items and ensure timely closure of
exceptions.
Investigate recurring reconciliation breaks and recommend preventive
controls.
Publish periodic dashboards on reconciliation status and control exceptions.
3. SAP & Financial Systems Controls
Monitor SAP financial controls, master data governance, and accounting
configurations.
Review user access, Segregation of Duties (SoD), and maker-checker
controls in coordination with IT.
Monitor system interfaces, exception reports, manual journal entries,
reversals, and suspense accounts.
Participate in UAT for ERP enhancements and ensure financial controls
remain effective.
4. Audit, Compliance & Risk
Perform periodic control testing and compliance reviews.
Track closure of Internal Audit, Statutory Audit, and Regulatory
observations.
Support audits by providing control documentation, system evidence, and
audit trails.
Escalate significant control breaches and operational risks to management.
5. MIS & Stakeholder Management
Prepare Finance Control MIS and management dashboards.
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📌 Finance Control (Mumbai)
🏢 Paytm
📍 Mumbai