Financial Controller [T500-29684]

Guidant Global · India

About Guidant Global:

Guidant Global delivers dynamic, tailored workforce solutions that empower businesses to thrive in ever-evolving markets. Through our MSP, RPO, Direct Sourcing, Services Procurement and Consulting services, we help organizations find, engage, and manage the best permanent and contingent talent across the globe.

Part of Impellam Group, we champion A Better Way, a people-first approach that integrates deep industry expertise with advanced technology. Our technology turns workforce complexity into clarity, with real-time insights that support smarter talent decisions at scale.

With over 1.5 million STEM and professional experts in our network across 80+ countries, we don't just solve today's challenges. We're helping to shape the workforce of tomorrow.

About Guidant Global India:

At Guidant Global India, we play our part in shaping the future of work by powering recruitment and support services for Guidant teams across APAC and wider global markets. As a strategic delivery hub and global capability centre, we partner with stakeholders worldwide to raise quality, strengthen compliance, and deliver consistently at scale.

We're not standing still. We're building deeper capability in-house, taking ownership of the work that matters most, and designing an agile, future-ready delivery model built for where the business is heading next.

Join us, and you'll be part of a people-first team that's expert, ambitious, and collaborative, delivering A Better Way, every day.

Commitment to our culture, values, and behaviours:

Achievement of the position objectives and key responsibilities is attained through the Virtuoso Way:

• By being the ambassador for Virtuosity and contributing to a culture of trust, entrepreneurship, innovation, authenticity, inclusivity, and agility to improve business effectiveness and the commitment to the results of the team, ahead of personal interests
• Making and keeping promises through Promise Based Management
• Treating people with respect and by the company’s equal opportunity and unacceptable behaviour policy
• Behaving in a manner that does not put the safety and integrity of you, others, the environment, or the company at risk

Key responsibilities:

• Financial accounting and close
• Own the monthly close timetable and standards across all APAC entities and brands, holding the Finance Manager and team accountable for completeness, accuracy and timely delivery.
• Hold final ownership of general ledger integrity, ensuring journals, accruals, prepayments, intercompany balances, fixed assets and balance sheet reconciliations are reviewed and signed off.
• Review and sign off monthly profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow results, ensuring unusual movements are investigated and issues resolved or escalated to the CFO.
• Set and maintain accounting policies across the function, ensuring supporting schedules and evidence for key balances and estimates meet group standards.

Management reporting, planning and commercial support:

• Own weekly and monthly management reporting, dashboards and Board reporting inputs, providing clear commentary on performance against budget, forecast and prior periods to senior stakeholders.
• Lead the budgeting, reforecasting and cash flow forecasting process, challenging assumptions and consolidating inputs from business stakeholders.
• Drive analysis and performance measures that improve accountability and business visibility, partnering with the CFO on commercial decision-making.

Financial control, compliance and audit:

• Own the financial control environment end-to-end, with documented reconciliations, review evidence, delegated authority compliance and clear accountability for all key controls.
• Act as the primary relationship owner for external audit and statutory accounts, taking ultimate accountability for evidence gathering, audit outcomes and stakeholder sign-off.
• Own accurate and timely BAS, GST, FBT, income tax, payroll tax and other statutory filings, working directly with external advisers and briefing the CFO on material positions.
• Lead tax governance and ATO assurance activity, ensuring control or documentation gaps are remediated and tracking actions through to completion.
• Ensure finance records are retained appropriately and sensitive information is handled in line with company requirements.

Cash, working capital and banking:

• Own short-term and medium-term cash forecasting, bank reconciliations, payment controls and working-capital reporting, escalating risks to the CFO.
• Oversee receivables, payables and overdue items, ensuring the Finance Manager and operational teams resolve invoice, supplier and customer issues promptly.
• Own banking administration, funding and cross-entity cash requirements within delegated authority.

Team leadership and stakeholder management:

• Lead, coach and develop the Finance Manager and wider finance team, setting clear priorities and holding the team accountable for the quality and timeliness of outputs.
• Build organizational capability, succession planning and process resilience across the finance function.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to Payroll, Operations, Group Finance, the CFO and external advisers, maintaining clear accountability and constructive communication.
• Champion a service-focused, respectful and improvement-oriented finance culture across the team.

Systems, process improvement and change:

• Own core finance processes, standard operating procedures, close checklists and reporting controls, setting the standard for the wider function.
• Sponsor automation, standardization and data-quality improvements that reduce risk and manual effort.
• Lead finance-system implementations, integrations, testing, data migration and adoption, ensuring control requirements are embedded in redesigned processes.
• Monitor emerging accounting, tax and regulatory developments, translating them into practical actions and briefing the CFO and senior stakeholders as needed.

Indicative success measures:

• Accurate and timely close, reconciliations, management reporting and forecast submissions across the APAC finance function.
• Clean audit and statutory outcomes, with complete, well-organized and reviewable evidence.
• Control issues, reconciling items and compliance actions identified early and resolved within agreed timeframes.
• Reliable cash visibility and proactive management of working-capital risks.
• Senior stakeholders and the Board receive clear, practical insight and responsive support.
• Team capability, process documentation and system efficiency improve over time, with a strong pipeline of finance talent.

Workplace Health, Safety, and Environmental Compliance:

At Impellam, it is our moral obligation to safeguard each other, our customers, our temporary workforce, and the environment by operating an injury-free, healthy workplace that minimizes our environmental impact.

Impellam is committed to providing a safe and secure working environment to all employees and promote best practices.

You will meet our WHSE obligations by committing to:

• Seek to prevent injury to any employee, customer, worker, or contractor
• Actively participating and completing compliance training as required
• Consider the safety implications of decisions

Work experience and attributes:

Essential:

• Bachelor degree in accounting, finance or a related discipline.
• CA, CPA or equivalent professional qualification, fully qualified.
• Significant post-qualification experience in a senior finance leadership role, including month-end close, statutory reporting, audit and Australian tax compliance.
• Proven experience leading and developing finance managers and teams, ideally across a multi-entity or multi-brand environment.
• Advanced Excel capability and sound experience with accounting, reporting and consolidation systems.
• Strong judgement, attention to detail and ability to deliver to tight deadlines in a high-volume environment.
• Confident, clear communicator, comfortable presenting to and influencing senior stakeholders and the Board.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a cash-constrained environment, proactively managing liquidity, working capital and competing financial priorities.
• Strong ownership mindset with a track record of driving continuous improvement

Desired:

• Experience in labour hire, recruitment, managed services, payroll or another transaction-intensive service environment.
• Experience across multiple entities, brands or APAC jurisdictions.
• Knowledge of Xero, Workday or comparable finance and operational systems.
• Experience with finance transformation, system implementation, data migration or process automation.
• Exposure to tax governance, GST assurance reviews, transfer pricing or cross-border finance matters.