Plant Finance Controller

Exponent Energy; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Exponent Energy in Bengaluru, India invites a Plant Finance Controller with 3+ years of experience to oversee production finance, inventory control and plant cost management. You will ensure compliance, drive ERP-related controls, and report factory PnL to leadership while coordinating with auditors.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration with operations and analytics to optimize inventories and cost performance across the plant.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of plant finance or manufacturing accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of inventory control and ERP processes.
• Experience with SAP and production cost accounting.
• Auditing coordination experience and interaction with internal/external auditors.

Responsibilities

• Overall inventory management & Systems control.
• Strict compliance of all internal finance control, systems & processes.
• Factory ERP implementation & Control.
• Ownership of reporting factory PnL to management.
• Verification of COGS production order wise & reconciliation of all production orders on daily/weekly/monthly.
• Controlling all inventory movements across plant and monitoring the processes.
• Standard cost vs Actual cost analysis on monthly/yearly basis.
• Coordinate with auditors for inventory verification and implement audit recommendations.
• Cycle counting of inventory and reconciling differences with approvals.
• Coordinate with Quality/Production/Logistics for SAP documentation.
• Control budgets across plant spends and prepare annual operating plan.
• Plan with sourcing team to meet SNOP.
• Handle audits and due diligence for inventory and production areas.

Skills

Inventory management

COGS analysis

ERP systems

Internal controls

Audit coordination

Tools

SAP

ERP systems

Job description

Role: Plant Finance Controller

Department: Finance Location: Bengaluru, India Experience: 3+ Years

Your Team:

The Plant Controller role is responsible for finance activities across production, inventory and plant. The role works closely with business, operations, and leadership teams to ensure accuracy, compliance, and scalability of financial processes.

Our philosophy:

Break. Believe. Build.

Break stuff, break assumptions, break the thumb rule.

Believe in the team, the process, and through failures.

Build fast, build passionately, build to simplify.

Own it like you mean it.

What you’ll do:

• Overall inventory management & Systems control.
• Strict compliance of all internal finance control, systems & processes.
• Factory ERP implementation & Control.
• Ownership of reporting factory PnL to management
• Verification of COGS production order wise & reconciliation of all production orders on daily/weekly/monthly.
• Controlling all the inventory movement across plant and monitoring the processes.
• Standard cost v/s Actual cost analysis on monthly/ yearly basis.
• Co-ordinating with the auditors for physical verification of inventory and analyzing the physical verification report and taking appropriate measures as suggested by auditors & Management.
• Cycle counting of inventory and correcting any differences after appropriate approvals.
• Coordinating with inter dept (Quality/Production/Logistics) for any pending documentation in SAP and getting this done on time.
• Control budgets across plant spends and prepare annual operating plan and track conversion cost closely.
• Manage planning with the sourcing team to meet the SNOP.
• Handle audits, due diligence for inventory and production areas.

What matters to us:

• Quality of work
• Structured problem-solving
• Dissatisfaction with mediocre work
• Ability to multi-task and handle a dynamic working environment
• Resilient attitude to bounce back after failing

About Us:

Exponent is building the energy stack powering commercial EVs in India. Our proprietary battery and charging technology enables safe, reliable 15-minute rapid charging while delivering a 3,000-cycle battery life warranty using standard lithium-ion cells. Today, our platform powers high-utilisation commercial vehicles - from three-wheelers to intercity buses, making electric mobility rapid, more reliable and more affordable than petroleum.

Founded by Arun Vinayak (Founding Partner & Former Chief Product Officer, Ather Energy), Exponent is a 250+ member team of passionate builders solving some of the toughest engineering challenges in energy.

If solving hard engineering problems across mechanics, thermal systems, power electronics, manufacturing, and the charging network, while staying obsessed with customer experience excites you, we'd love to build with you