Smart-Home Product Finance Controllership — Interim Controller

The mandate

The controllership seat owns close, inventory judgement and management reporting for connected-product finance, preserving the different economics of hardware shipments, software obligations and channel activity. The assignment does not imply CFO or product leadership authority merely because these streams must be reconciled financially.

The bridge begins on 19 October 2026 and runs for twelve months alongside a permanent controller search. Bengaluru is the primary base, with onsite close and review attendance and planned channel or product-operation walkthroughs. The opening quarter establishes the control baseline; the final quarter requires the permanent appointee to operate reporting and inventory review independently.

At handover, ledger close, inventory estimates and product management reporting must reconcile to a source-backed control record. The successor must reproduce one financial pack and disposition a representative return or warranty-related finance exception without informal explanation. Open audit, tax and reporting judgements remain visible with appropriate CFO or specialist ownership, rather than disappearing in a cleaner final presentation.

The controller may direct existing finance staff, approve routine journals within policy and authorise budgeted operational finance requests up to ₹10 lakh under dual review. Material estimates, accounting-policy changes, financing and permanent hiring remain with the CFO or authorised experts. Product warranty conclusions and channel contract interpretations cannot be decided by finance without the relevant technical or legal evidence.

Out of scope are product roadmaps, fundraising negotiation and sales-channel ownership. The controller supplies evidence and keeps financial decisions controlled; operating specialists retain their accountabilities. Five working days weekly are priced by the day, with separately agreed exceptional travel. There is no annual salary comparison or promised conversion, and the fixed term cannot expand quietly into an enterprise transformation programme.

What you will own

• Establish the connected-product close issue register linking hardware, software and channel sources, identifying material estimates and unresolved evidence before the controller signs routine finance review completion.
• Approve routine journals and reconciliations within policy, rejecting unsupported offsets and preserving retained CFO approval for material estimates, accounting changes or significant reporting judgement.
• Challenge inventory and return assumptions against source evidence and authorised product input, distinguishing finance valuation from technical warranty conclusions or sales commitments outside the controller's delegation.
• Reconcile product management reporting to ledger and cash outcomes, explaining where commercial measures remain useful but cannot substitute directly for accounting or liquidity figures.
• Direct audit and routine tax-compliance preparation through accountable owners, ensuring specialist positions and material issues receive authorised review rather than implied controller-level sign-off.
• Prioritise finance control remediation within budget and operating deadlines, retaining reviewer independence and source integrity when urgent reporting requests would otherwise encourage undocumented manual fixes.
• Transfer controllership through successor-led close and inventory reviews, accepted working papers and a signed register of unresolved CFO, technical or specialist decisions at term expiry.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate experienced finance controllership with personal ownership of close, audit preparation and reporting judgement in technology, products or a comparable mixed operating environment. Provide a redacted exception you resolved and identify the approval retained by the CFO. The role requires controlled functional authority, not assumed capital-strategy or enterprise executive responsibility.
• Show practical accounting competence across relevant reporting frameworks, inventory, revenue and estimates, preferably with professional finance qualification or equivalent practice. Explain a product or channel fact that changed a financial conclusion. Candidates must preserve technical and legal specialist reliance rather than deriving warranty, contract or product conclusions from finance assumptions alone.
• Evidence useful management reporting and cash reconciliation that ordinary finance staff could maintain. Describe a source or definition issue corrected after review and its decision consequence. Analytical tools are relevant only when accompanied by traceable calculations, controlled access and consistency with the books; a polished dashboard without reconciliation does not establish controllership readiness.
• Establish twenty years of relevant experience and a tested transfer of control routines to a successor. Show open estimates, tax matters, review rights and product dependencies retained honestly. Provide a successor-led close and returns review that reconciled inventory estimates to authorised product evidence, retained dual approval and identified a material judgement requiring CFO review before the pack was released.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 10 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-INT-2026-IND-34.