Amber - Associate Director - Finance

Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing). Amber helps 80M+ students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process. We are the largest and fastest-growing student housing platform globally, with 1M+ units listed in 6 countries and across 100+ cities. We are growing rapidly and targeting $2B in annual gross bookings value by 2024

If you are passionate about making international mobility and living seamless and accessible, then Join us in building the future of student Housing! (We are amongst the fastest growing companies in the Asia Pacific as per Financial Times https://www.ft.com/high-growth-asia-pacific-ranking-2022). Role Overview:. Reporting to the Director, Finance, this role plays a significant role in ensuring the group achieves its financial objectives. This is a finance role with high degree of visibility with senior stakeholders, including business and functional heads

Roles & responsibilities:

- Perform efficient monthly, quarterly, and annual closes and deliver reporting within timelines agreed to by leadership. Oversees consistent accounting policies, practices, and procedures, adhering to national and local legal standards while remaining knowledgeable of proposed legislation. Ensure budgetary control through continuous reviews. Run the process of maintaining cost centres and P&Ls for different business verticals.

- Working Capital Management: Maintain control over working capital and manage debt to minimize interest charges, ensuring financial stability.. Ensure compliances with taxation, accounting policies and regulatory regime. Preparation of standalone and consolidated financials. Lead the process of audits, diligence, etc. Lead and manage collaterals for fund raising initiatives such as debt or equity raise. Hold all Management Reporting to key internal stakeholders and be the bedrock of Investor Reporting. Propose and drive revenue, margin or cost improvement initiatives along with functional and business heads.

- Clearly communicating the findings from the analysis to turn information into something actionable through reports, dashboards, and/or presentations.. Drive discussions with business heads to understand the process, the problem, and then brainstorm solution scenarios for managing accounting

- Working closely with various tax, legal and other advisors. Any other Adhoc work assigned to you especially

- Team Management and Leadership:. Managing/mentoring a team of Analysts/Associates and reporting to the Management. Driving projects and process improvements.

- Monitoring procedures and controls within the team and reviewing and approving the teams work daily within the stated departmental guideline.

- Prerequisites:. Excellent communication skills. Strong grasp of various aspects of finance and an analytical ability. Commitment and ownership. Strong eye for detail and ability to multi-task. Ability to meet deadlines.

- High levels of honesty & integrity, ability to lead a team and self-drive are essential.

Key skills & qualifications:

- 6-10 years of work experience. Deep knowledge of finance, accounting and taxation. Strong stakeholder management capabilities. CA mandatory. Knowledge of US taxation and compliances would be having higher preference