Senior Manager, Controllership

This role provides end-to-end leadership for Record-to-Report accounting and controllership activities within the Accounting Centre of Excellence. It leads a large controllership team and is accountable for accurate, timely and compliant financial reporting, strong balance sheet governance, effective internal controls, and delivery of close, reporting, audit support and compliance requirements. As a critical leadership position within the Accounting COE, it focuses on building, transitioning, stabilising and scaling controllership activities, including the transition of accounting work from other regions.

• Lead and oversee Record-to-Report accounting and controllership activities, serving as a subject matter expert and leading special projects as required.
• Own the monthly, quarterly and annual close processes, ensuring accuracy, completeness, timeliness and compliance with applicable accounting and reporting requirements.
• Ensure strong balance sheet governance, account reconciliation quality, variance analysis, management reporting and timely issue resolution, and supervise intercompany reconciliations to resolve out-of-balance items with counterparts.
• Review and sign off monthly and quarterly balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements, including footnote disclosures and supplemental schedules, and analyse financial results against expectations to provide meaningful insights to controllership and business stakeholders.
• Assess the accounting implications of business transactions in a timely manner, coordinating with Technical Accounting teams where required, and perform system and manual reconciliations between business unit boundary systems and SAP to ensure data consistency and accuracy.
• Maintain a strong internal control environment and ensure compliance with SOX requirements, driving discipline around documentation, evidence retention, review controls, issue tracking and remediation.
• Partner with internal and external auditors to support audit planning, walkthroughs, testing, information requests and timely closure of audit matters.
• Proactively identify financial reporting, compliance and control risks and ensure appropriate escalation and resolution.
• Lead the transition, stabilisation and scaling of accounting activities insourced from other regions into the Hyderabad Accounting COE, establishing clear ownership, process documentation, KPIs, service levels, governance routines and escalation mechanisms.
• Act as the key connection point between the Hyderabad Accounting COE and Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, GBS and other business stakeholders, building relationships with global and regional finance leaders and communicating accounting decisions, process impacts, deadlines and risks.
• Collaborate with leadership to set department priorities and resolve problems, and understand the business model and operating drivers to provide informed controllership advice and support decision-making.
• Drive process standardisation, simplification, automation and continuous improvement across RTR activities, and support system implementations, ERP-related changes, integrations, reorganisations and other finance transformation initiatives.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team, setting clear goals, performance expectations, priorities and accountability standards, and building succession depth and controllership capability within the Hyderabad COE.
• Assess workload, resource requirements and capacity needs and recommend changes as required.

• Chartered Accountant, CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• 15+ years of progressive accounting, controllership and financial reporting experience, including at least 5 years in a supervisory role.
• Strong experience in RTR, close, balance sheet governance, financial reporting, audit support and internal controls.
• Deep understanding of US GAAP and SOX control requirements, including intercompany and foreign currency accounting.
• Proven experience leading large accounting teams, including leaders and managers.
• Prior controllership experience in a multinational, matrixed, global organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to influence senior finance and business leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, deliver against tight deadlines and maintain composure under deadline pressure.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, solution-presentation and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with high levels of transparency.
• High attention to detail, a strong ownership mindset and commitment to quality and compliance.
• Able to work effectively across various time zones.
• Strong controllership leader with sound judgement, high integrity and the ability to balance technical accounting depth with practical business partnership.
• Comfortable building structure in a changing environment, with a transformation mindset to simplify, standardise and scale processes.
• Able to build capability, coach teams and create accountability, and confident working with senior stakeholders across regions and functions.

• Experience in media, entertainment, production, distribution or related industries.
• Experience with remote transition.
• Experience with SAP or other large ERP platforms.
• Experience leading finance transformation, automation, process standardisation or system implementation initiatives.
• MBA or master's degree in accounting, finance or business.

• Normal working hours are 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. IST, Monday to Friday.
• Work outside these hours and on holidays may be required for the proper performance of the role, without additional pay.
• The Company reserves the right to change working hours where essential to business needs, upon reasonable notice.