Finance Control & Governance Manager
Paytm · Posted Oct 8
Mobile payments, digital wallets, banking solutions, and financial services
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About the role
The Finance Controls & Governance function at Paytm strengthens the finance control environment by ensuring adherence to approved SOPs, monitoring financial and system controls, and overseeing reconciliations and exceptions. The role acts as the first line of defense within Finance, covering SAP FI/CO controls, audit and regulatory compliance, and MIS reporting for a fintech/payments business. This manager drives control reviews, segregation-of-duties governance, exception resolution, and audit readiness across finance processes.
What you will do
- Ensure adherence to approved Finance SOPs, policies, and internal control frameworks.
- Monitor key financial processes and identify control gaps and improvement opportunities.
- Conduct periodic control reviews and ensure timely implementation of corrective actions.
- Drive process standardization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Oversee critical reconciliations, including bank, GL, settlement, and suspense accounts.
- Monitor ageing of unreconciled items and ensure timely closure of exceptions.
- Investigate recurring reconciliation breaks and recommend preventive controls.
- Publish periodic dashboards on reconciliation status and control exceptions.
- Monitor SAP financial controls, master data governance, and accounting configurations.
- Review user access, Segregation of Duties (SoD), and maker-checker controls in coordination with IT.
- Monitor system interfaces, exception reports, manual journal entries, reversals, and suspense accounts.
- Participate in UAT for ERP enhancements and ensure financial controls remain effective.
- Perform periodic control testing and compliance reviews.
- Track closure of Internal Audit, Statutory Audit, and Regulatory observations.
- Support audits by providing control documentation, system evidence, and audit trails.
- Escalate significant control breaches and operational risks to management.
- Prepare Finance Control MIS and management dashboards.
- Coordinate with Treasury, Operations, Compliance, Technology, and Product teams to resolve control issues.
- Promote automation and technology-driven controls to reduce manual interventions.
Skills used in this role
Preferred qualifications
- Chartered Accountant (CA), CMA, or MBA (Finance).
- 5–10 years of experience in Finance Controls, Internal Controls, Audit, Finance Operations, or ERP Governance.
- Experience in Financial Services, FinTech, Broking, or Banking preferred.
- Working knowledge of SAP FI/CO (ECC or S/4HANA), financial systems, and ERP controls.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Paytm
Paytm is India's leading financial services company offering full-stack payment solutions, digital wallets, QR codes, and financial services to consumers and merchants. The platform provides comprehensive digital inclusion via UPI payments, banking services distribution, merchant devices, and lending solutions. Operating under its parent firm One97 Communications, Paytm has scaled its operations into a robust profitability-driven ecosystem.
- Industry
- FinTech
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $4.91B raised
- 2023-08-28Late Stage$246.34M
- 2020-11-20Angel$1.26M
- 2019-12-06Series H$673M
- 2018-08-27Series G$300M
Leadership
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
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