GE Vernova India | Lead Finance Specialist

Roles and responsibilities

• This role is responsible for leading statutory financial reporting, audit coordination, and legal entity compliance for entities within scope.
• The position plays a critical role in ensuring timely and accurate statutory filings, maintaining compliance with local regulatory requirements, and supporting a strong internal control environment.
• The role also supports technical accounting compliance, statutory-to-GAAP alignment, financial controllership, and continuous process improvement.
• In addition to executing core statutory reporting responsibilities, the position is expected to work closely with internal and external stakeholders to improve reporting quality, simplify processes, strengthen controls, and ensure operational discipline across the reporting cycle.
• The role requires a strong understanding of statutory reporting requirements, audit management, legal entity financial oversight, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead the preparation, review, and timely submission of statutory financial statements for entities in scope.
• Ensure statutory financial statements are accurate, complete, and compliant with applicable local regulations, accounting standards, and internal corporate requirements.
• Coordinate end-to-end statutory filing activities and maintain adherence to filing deadlines and compliance calendars.
• Own and manage the full statutory audit lifecycle, including planning, coordination, issue resolution, and closure.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors and manage audit relationships to ensure timely and efficient completion of audits.
• Coordinate internal stakeholders to ensure audit readiness, quality support, and timely closure of audit observations.
• Act as the controllership focal point at country/entity level, with a sound understanding of underlying business activities and financial drivers.
• Support robust legal entity governance through disciplined reporting, analysis, and issue management.
• Oversee statutory-to-GAAP adjustments in Statutory HFM and ensure accurate accounting treatment and postings in SAP dual ledger (L1).
• Lead analysis of legal entity-level Stat-to-GAAP reconciling items and drive remediation, reduction, and simplification in alignment with corporate policy.
• Support consistency and transparency between local statutory books and management reporting requirements.
• Compliance, Controls, and Operational Excellence.
• Ensure compliance with key statutory, tax, and controllership-related KPIs.
• Contribute to the design, execution, and continuous enhancement of financial and operational internal controls.
• Support and lead Lean and process improvement initiatives to simplify statutory reporting processes, improve quality, and enhance efficiency.
• Partner closely with regional business line teams and key functions including Tax, Legal, Treasury, Operations, and other finance teams to gather, validate, and reconcile financial information.
• Ensure completeness and consistency of financial data, disclosures, and compliance submissions through effective stakeholder coordination.
• Provide timely and accurate financial information required to support broader controllership, tax, and compliance processes.
• Coordinate and provide timely, accurate data to tax teams to support tax calculations, compliance activities, and statutory filings.
• Oversee regional transactional tax filings, including VAT compliance, and help ensure adherence to local regulatory requirements.

Required qualifications

• Chartered Accountant / Certified Public Accountant / Postgraduate qualification in Commerce, Accounting, or Finance from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in financial reporting, statutory audits, and legal entity compliance.
• Strong experience working with India statutory reporting requirements, preferably including listed entities.
• Hands-on experience with SAP, FDL, HFM, or comparable financial reporting and consolidation systems preferred.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, US GAAP, local accounting standards, and statutory/legal reporting requirements.
• Solid understanding of legal entity controllership, statutory audit management, and statutory-to-GAAP reconciliation processes.
• Familiarity with financial systems and reporting tools, including SAP and HFM.
• Advanced Excel and data handling skills, with the ability to manage and analyze large datasets effectively.
• Strong analytical capability and problem-solving orientation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under tight timelines.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions and with external partners.
• Continuous improvement mindset with demonstrated ability to drive process simplification and operational excellence.

GE Vernova Inc.

GE Vernova became an independent company on 2 April 2024, when General Electric completed its split into three companies, and its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GEV. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is organised into three businesses: Power (gas, nuclear, hydro and steam technologies), Wind (onshore and offshore turbines and blades) and Electrification (grid solutions, power conversion, solar and storage, and digital tools for transmission and distribution). General Electric has been involved in Indian power projects since 1902. In India, GE Vernova has technology and engineering centres in Noida, Vadodara, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, and manufacturing in places such as Vadodara and Pune. Its Indian listed companies include GE Vernova T&D India Limited and GE Power India Limited.

Finance openings in India have included a Lead Finance Specialist role in project control in Vadodara, Gujarat. It asks for a Chartered Accountant or another professional finance qualification, with at least six to seven years of post-qualification industry experience.

• Industry: Energy equipment and services: gas, nuclear, hydro and steam power, onshore and offshore wind, and grid electrification and software
• Headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (listed on the NYSE as GEV)
• In India: GE Vernova India across Noida, Vadodara, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune, with listed Indian companies GE Vernova T&D India Limited and GE Power India Limited