Finance & Accounts - Chartered Accountant, Sign 3

• About Company: Sign3 Labs builds an AI-native fraud and
• customer intelligence platform for Indian Financial Services. We are a
• venture-backed company working with major banks, NBFCs, small finance banks,
• enterprises and FinTechs across India.
• We are past product-market fit on our core
• offering and are scaling commercially. Headcount is small but expanding across
• engineering, data science, GTM and operations.
• Role: Finance & Accounts - Chartered Accountant

Roles & Responsibilities

• Controllership and close
• Monthly close in ≤ 7 working days.Revenue
• recognition (SaaS + usage-based), deferred revenue, accrued revenue, vendor
• accruals, payroll, reimbursements, capitalisation policy.
• Books and books of record. Own the chart
• of accounts, ledgers and the accounting tool (currently Zoho/Tally — your call
• on whether we migrate). Keep a clean, audit-ready trail.
• Statutory compliance.GST, TDS, PF/ESIC,
• PT, advance tax, ROC filings, transfer pricing if/when applicable. No
• surprises, no late fees.
• Audits. Statutory, tax and internal
• audits end-to-end. Client-led financial due-diligence and vendor assessments
• from banks are a normal part of the job and should be handled calmly.
• FP&A and founder-facing work
• Monthly MIS and board pack.Revenue
• bridge, cohort-level ARR, gross margin, burn, runway, cash conversion, KPI
• dashboard. Turns around in ≤ 5 working days after close.
• Rolling 18-month plan. Own the model. Own
• the sensitivities. Founders should be able to ask “what if we hire six more
• engineers and delay the next round by a quarter?” and get an answer the same
• afternoon.
• Unit economics. CAC, payback, LTV/CAC,
• contribution margin by client segment. The number everyone quotes should be the
• one you computed.
• Pricing and deal desk.Sit with the sales
• team on large bank and FinTech deals. Model the commercial, pressure-test MSA
• terms (payment cycles, LD clauses, pass-through costs), flag anything that
• quietly damages gross margin.
• Fundraising, investor and board
• Data room. Keep it live and pristine —
• cap table, financials, KPIs, contracts, compliance, policies. Diligence should
• take days, not weeks.
• Monthly investor update. Draft the
• numbers section; partner with founders on commentary.
• Cap table and ESOP. Cap-table hygiene,
• pool management, grant letters, exercise/vesting tracking, 409A-equivalent
• valuation exercises and related-party disclosures.
• Controls, treasury and vendors
• Expense and procurement controls.Approval
• matrix, corporate-card policy, vendor onboarding and KYC. Controls that a bank
• auditor would nod at without slowing the business down.
• Treasury. Cash and liquidity across
• operating and FD accounts, FX for overseas spend, basic hedging where it
• matters.
• Payroll and vendor payments.On time,
• every cycle.

Required Skills

Qualified Chartered Accountantwith 4–6

• years of post-qualification experience, ideally a mix of Big-4 / tier-1 audit
• and an in-house role at a venture-backed startup.
• Strong SaaS or FinTech accounting background.Revenue recognition under Ind AS 115 for SaaS and usage-based contracts is
• second nature.
• Real fundraising exposure. You have
• worked through at least one equity round on the company side — data room, DD,
• SHA/SSA schedules, closing mechanics.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling.You
• can build a clean three-statement model and a cohort/ARR waterfall from
• scratch.
• Accounting stack fluency.Tally, Zoho
• Books or QuickBooks at the very least; bonus if you have run a migration or an
• ERP evaluation.
• Clear writing and composure. You can say
• “no” to a founder with a number, and walk an investor through a miss without
• flinching.
• Strong plus
• Experience working with a B2B company whose
• customers are banks or NBFCs — you understand their procurement, vendor risk
• and payment cycles.
• Exposure to vendor/data-privacy compliance
• frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPDP Act readiness) from the finance side.

Experience with Carta / equity-management tools

• and ESOP administration.
• A view on what a finance function should look like at 50 people vs 200
• people, and how to hire towards it.

What We Offer

• Competitive cash compensation and a meaningful
• ESOP grant with a clear vesting schedule.
• Health insurance for you and your family.
• The chance to build a finance function from the
• ground up at a company that is already revenue-generating — not from zero, but
• from something worth shaping.