Finance Controller

Leaf Round; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Leaf Round is seeking a Chartered Accountant with 8–10 years of post-qualification experience to own the finance function end-to-end. You will be responsible for books, regulatory filings, audits, client-funds discipline, and treasury, reporting directly to the CEO as we scale.

The role involves leading audits, MIS, and regulatory compliance for a SEBI-registered stockbroker, with a clear growth path toward Head of Finance as the business expands.

Qualifications

• CA qualified is mandatory.
• 8–10 years post-qualification experience in a regulated financial services entity such as stockbroker, NBFC, bank, asset manager, or fintech.
• Hands-on controllership: books, statutory audits, regulatory filings, and board-level reporting.
• Strong understanding of client funds handling, reconciliation, and settlement.
• Strong IndAS, GST, and direct tax fundamentals.
• Direct experience in SEBI-registered stockbroker or OBPP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own Controllership, books, and IndAS-compliant financial statements for Sustvest Broking.
• Lead statutory and tax audits, internal audits, and SEBI/exchange inspections.
• Manage statutory/regulatory filings: SEBI half-year net worth certificates, GST, TDS, advance tax, MCA filings.
• Provide monthly MIS and management reporting for founders and board.
• Oversee client funds & settlement discipline with timely reconciliations.
• Manage upstreaming of client funds to clearing corporation and weekly settlements.
• Conduct exchange/clearing reconciliations and OBPP reporting under SEBI Master Circular.
• Maintain liquidity, cash management, and treasury; ensure capital adequacy.
• Build finance dashboards and data room for fundraising and audits.
• Hire and mentor a small finance team; scale finance stack and tools.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Financial reporting

Audit coordination

Team leadership

IndAS knowledge

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA)

Job description

• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.