Plant Controller - Finance

You'll be working with the Finance team as the bridge between Corporate Finance and the Factory. This team runs on coffee, reports, audits, excel sheets, business plans, and an infectious passion for building financial partnerships with a large set of direct and indirect stakeholders. Our philosophy: Break. Believe. Build Break stuff. Break assumptions. Break the thumb rule. Believe in the team. Believe in the process. Believe through failures. Build fast. Build passionately. Build to simplify. Build to Scale. What you will do: As the Plant Controller and Finance Head, at Exponent Energy, you will own all Finance related matters, processes, and outcomes at the Plant and Supply Chain. Responsibilities: Establish Baselines: Work with accounting, control, and supply chain teams to build Optimize Working Capital: Work with suppliers, internal supply chain teams, and external financiers to optimize the working capital needs and expenses of Exponent Own Financial Metrics: Drive decisions across the org by owning, tracking, and driving improvements in key Plant, Inventory and supply chain-driven metrics Drive Value Chain Improvements: Work with business and supply chain teams to optimize the final landed price of Exponent's products Build Strategic Relationships: Enable Exponent's scale by engaging with key/strategic Partners to build and execute manufacturing/supply capacity business plans the right processes for Exponent's supply chain The ideal candidate requires: CA Qualification 5-7 years of experience in Plant, Factory, Supply Chain Finance, specifically manufacturing plants Experience in planning, financing, Inventory management, Costing, and executing Capital Expenditures for Manufacturing About Us Exponent simplifies energy for EVs. Co-founded by Arun Vinayak (Ather Energy's Founding Partner and former Chief Product Officer) and Sanjay Byalal (Former hardware strategic sourcing and cell strategy lead, Ather and Former Supply Chain Lead, HUL) We focus on solving two sides of the energy problem by building our e^pump (charging station) and e^pack (battery pack) which together unlock 15-min rapid charging. The 150+ strong team of passionate builders have a ton of EV experience and are currently looking for more builders to join one of the best EV teams in India to build & scale Exponent. Requirements