Legal Entity Controllership Role

Position Summary:

• The Financial Control team consists of approximately 70 employees, based primarily out of London and Pune, responsible for the preparation and review of all internal and external financial and regulatory information
• The Legal Entity control lead is a member of the Group Financial Control team, reporting to the Head of Finance Operations in London and COE lead in Pune.
• The Group Financial Control team are responsible for the internal and external financial and regulatory reporting prepared for the Board, Shareholders.
• This includes, but is not limited to, the quarterly financial statements, monthly management reports and regulatory returns.
• In addition, the team supports management and the wider business in assessing the impact of accounting and business developments.
• The role will actively support the Group Financial Controller in building and ensuring the Financial Control function operates to the highest level of quality, delivering timely and accurate financials and management information to its key internal and external stakeholders.
• The individual will also be expected to lead the implementation on several key projects, drive efficiencies within finance and build a solid scalable infrastructure on which to support a fast growing business.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the Company's development of a legal entity control presence in Pune, responsible for delivering timely and accurate internal and external financial, regulatory and management information for our Group subsidiaries.
• Manage all aspects of the yearly subsidiary audits and all related disclosures, delivering timely and accurate statutory reporting and be the key face off to the external auditors.
• Contribute to the monthly Group financial control close process as per IFRS, overseeing all relevant assigned aspects of data preparation for ingestion into the ERP, and following through to reviewing the relevant accounting output from the ERP, ensuring all facets align with expectations, and conducting other requisite analytical reviews and substantiation checks.
• Deliver timely and accurate monthly cost reporting, including generating key insights and explains to cost drivers with respect to variances of actuals to prior periods and the budget.
• Review and oversee regulatory reporting for regulated entities, typically encompassing accounting, capital, liquidity, and assets under management data.
• Ensure a robust control environment underpins the reporting deliverables.

Contribute to the teams development of enhanced control frameworks.

• Ensure the appropriate accounting treatment for all aspects within role responsibility.
• Evaluate existing processes and booking model changes.
• Work with our internal Tax team to manage the tax elements of our financials.
• Lead and manage team of 10-14 team members consisting of senior managers, managers, analysts
• Manage and support the growth of other team members (setting Goals and objectives) Hiring, retention, separation, performance management)
• Build and maintain a strong working relationship with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead and deliver on several key finance and wider Group projects
• Develop a knowledge through time of the various key Investments/Assets held on the PLC's balance sheet, across the various strategies of Corporate Investments, Capital Markets, Real Assets (Real Estate and Infrastructure Equity), and Private Equity Secondaries
• Hands on experience in leading transformation initiatives and good understanding of process improvement and change management
• Participate and lead weekly, monthly, quarterly governance meetings with Wipro and Client stakeholders and responsible for presenting KPIs SLA and other key dashboards/metrics
• Part of leadership group at Wipro AIMS and interact with other leaders to bring the best of Wipro to.

ideas about technology improvements, process improvements, expertise from best practices deployed at other Wipro AIMS clients

• Work closely with Wipro Transformation , quality, hiring and other support functions on day to day basis

Key Requirements/ Qualifications:

• 15+ years PQE in either/and: Financial Reporting, Financial Regulatory Reporting or Financial Control.
• Qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA) is a must
• Past Organisations: Publicly listed organisations, Asset Managers, PE & Venture Capital, Other Financial Services, Investment Banks (GCC) and / or Tier I Consulting/Professional Services firms
• IFRS GAAP experience and background in producing IFRS compliant Annual Financial Statements.
• Familiarity with risk and control self-assessment frameworks such as RCSA's and SOX compliance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Well versed with latest trends and technologies in finance and accounting area including AI
• Prior hands on experience on Workiva, Workday will be preferred (not mandatory)

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