# Legal Entity Controller

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** US GAAP, Ifrs, Local Gaap, Sox, Excel, Oracle, Workiva, Blackline, SQL, Hubble, Rpa, ERP, Financial Reporting, External Audits, Reconciliations
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Owns end-to-end controllership for assigned legal entities, including close, statutory reporting, audits, regulatory filings, technical accounting, and internal controls. Requires a professional accountancy qualification, 9+ years of progressive accounting experience, and expertise across US GAAP, IFRS, and local GAAP.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end controllership for assigned legal entities, including financial close, statutory reporting, audit readiness, regulatory filings, and adoption with boards or local management.
- Prepare and sign off statutory financial statements and coordinate statutory adoption processes with local boards, directors, and external advisors.
- Manage external auditors and local service providers, including scope, timelines, findings resolution, and audit documentation.
- Oversee monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, including complex journal entries, reconciliations, technical accounting assessments, variance analysis, and executive reporting packages.
- Design, implement, and maintain entity-level accounting policies and internal control frameworks; own SOX and internal control compliance and remediation where applicable.
- Partner with Tax, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and regional finance teams on transactions and policy changes affecting accounting, tax, and regulatory outcomes.
- Deliver process improvements and automation initiatives involving RPA, ERP configuration, reporting pipelines, templates, and tooling.
- Resolve technical accounting questions using US GAAP, IFRS, and local GAAP, escalating to central technical accounting teams when needed.
- Coach and mentor junior accounting teammates and lead cross-functional projects and working groups.
- Act as a subject-matter expert for entity-level reporting requests, audits, regulatory inquiries, and management escalations.

## Requirements

- Professional accountancy qualification such as CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
- 9+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant controllership exposure.
- Hands-on experience with monthly and year-end close, statutory financial statement preparation, external audits, regulatory filings, and variance analysis.
- Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS, with experience applying local GAAP and converging treatments across frameworks.
- Experience owning internal control programs, including SOX or similar programs, and executing control design and remediation.
- Track record of entity-level automation or process simplification involving ERP systems, reconciliation tooling, or reporting pipelines.
- Strong technical and problem-solving skills, advanced Excel ability, and experience with financial systems.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to work with Tax, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and regional teams.
- High integrity, sound professional judgment, attention to detail, and ability to work under tight deadlines.
- Experience leading or mentoring junior finance professionals and managing external advisors or service providers.

## Nice to Have

- Technology or payments industry experience.
- Oracle experience.
- Hubble and SQL experience.
- Familiarity with BI tools or scripting.

## Compensation and Benefits

- No compensation information provided.

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