Senior Manager - Assurance & Controls

Job Title: Senior Manager: Lead - Internal Controls & Assurance

Reporting Relationship: Head Transformation, Assurance and Compliance

Purpose: This role reports to the Head Transformation, Assurance and Compliance and is responsible for leading enterprise-wide financial assurance governance. The position drives the design, implementation, and continuous strengthening of internal financial and process controls to ensure accuracy, transparency, and risk mitigation. It also ensures full adherence with applicable financial commitments and compliance, while embedding robust monitoring mechanisms.

Education: Chartered Accountant | Location: Mumbai

Business/ Channel/ Function: Finance and Accounts

Experience: 10 to 12 years

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify control gaps and recommend and implement remediation plans, including policy updates, system enhancements, automation controls, and strengthened approval mechanisms.
• Conduct periodic and structured review of accounting policies to ensure alignment with applicable accounting standards regulatory requirements, and evolving business models. Govern depreciation and amortization policies, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with applicable accounting frameworks. Evaluate the adequacy and relevance of existing SOPs, process notes, and control checklists across finance and cross-functional processes (Procurement, Capex, Tech, Revenue, etc.). Drive documentation standardization and version control of policies and SOPs to ensure consistency across the organization.
• Ensure strong internal financial controls and process controls are embedded across functions.
• Establish and maintain a robust financial assurance framework by implementing structured quarterly certifications and formal confirmations from relevant stakeholders to validate compliance with financial controls, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Internal Audit, Statutory Auditors, and Compliance teams to address control gaps and remediation actions.
• Drive continuous improvement in governance, risk mitigation, and process standardization.
• Conduct periodic asset reviews and reconciliations to maintain integrity of asset registers.
• Ensure adherence to the Code of Conduct for all finance-related decisions and compliance.

Key Competencies

• Expertise in financial controls, internal audit, and governance frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of accounting standards related to capitalization, depreciation, and amortization.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally (Finance, Tech, Procurement, Business Teams).
• High level of integrity, decision-making capability, and risk awareness.

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Other responsibilities:

• Ensuring efficient operation of the team, adoption of best practices and driving automation.
• Establish and improve SOPs, policy documentation and checklists.
• Team management -assessing current and expected skill requirements, building capability through training programs, monitoring deliverables and achievement against targets, regular interaction with team members and stakeholders.

Critical Competencies:

• Behavioural
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Analytical mindset and structured problem-solving
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Stakeholder coordination and service orientation
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams

• Technical
• Solid understanding of Financial controls
• Strong Excel and MIS capabilities
• Hands-on SAP experience (FI/CO & MM preferred)
• Understanding of accounting processes

Why join us?

CulverMax Entertainment Pvt Ltd (Formerly known as Sony Pictures Networks India) is home to some of Indias leading entertainment channels such as SET, SAB, MAX, PAL, PIX, Sony BBC Earth, Yay!, Sony Marathi, Sony SIX, Sony TEN, SONY TEN1, SONY Ten2, SONY TEN3, SONY TEN4, to name a few!

Our foray into the OTT space with one of the most promising streaming platforms, Sony LIV brings us one step closer to being a progressive digitally led content powerhouse.

Our independent production venture- Studio Next has already made its mark with original content and IPs for TV and Digital Media.

But our quest to Go Beyond does not end there. Neither does our search to find people who can take us there.

We focus on creating an inclusive and equitable workplace where we celebrate diversity with our Bring Your Own Self Philosophy. We strive to remain an Employer of Choice and have been recognized as:

- Indias Best Companies to Work For 2021 by the Great Place to Work Institute.

- 100 Best Companies for Women in India by AVTAR & Seramount for 6 years in a row - UN Women Empowerment Principles Award 2022 for Gender Responsive Marketplace and Community Engagement & Partnership

- ET Human Capital Awards 2023 for Excellence in HR Business Partnership & Team Building Engagement

- ET Future Skills Awards 2022 for Best Learning Culture in an Organization and Best D&I Learning Initiative.

The biggest award of course is the thrill our employees feel when they can Tell Stories Beyond the Ordinary!