Business Finance Leader

Function: Finance | Location: Noida | Reporting to: CFO and President - Business Head

Job Overview

We are looking for a commercially minded Business Finance Leader to partner with business leadership and cross-functional teams to improve financial and operating performance. The role will provide financial insight on business decisions, track performance against the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), identify gaps in revenue, costs and profitability, and work with stakeholders on practical corrective actions. The role will also evaluate new products and growth initiatives, assess commercial viability, and help ensure that business growth translates into sustainable profitability. This is a hands-on business partnering role that combines strong financial judgement with a clear understanding of how the business operates.

Key Responsibilities

1. Business partnering and decision support:

- Work closely with business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to assess business performance, keep track of market developments, evaluate options and support sound commercial decisions.

- Translate financial and operating outcomes into clear decision worthy insights, challenge assumptions constructively, and recommend practical actions to improve results.

2. P&L ownership and performance improvement:

- Track performance against the AOP and business targets, identify gaps in revenue, costs, margins and profitability, and work with stakeholders to close them.

- Understand the underlying drivers of performance and flag risks or opportunities early, with clear recommendations and accountability for follow-through.

- Monitor costs, unit economics and contribution margins; identify cost leakages, inefficiencies and opportunities to improve profitability.

3. New products, pricing and growth initiatives:

- Evaluate and partner with business team on new product launches, business cases and growth initiatives, including commercial viability, revenue assumptions, cost implications, investment requirements and expected returns.

- Provide financial inputs insights on pricing, discounts, product economics, resource allocation and go-to-market decisions to support profitable growth.

- Use market, customer and sector insights to test assumptions and help business teams understand the financial implications of their choices.

4. Financial stewardship and end-to-end finance:

- Bring a broad finance perspective across revenue, costs, cash flow, working capital, taxation and financial controls, ensuring business decisions are financially sound and compliant.

- Partner with accounting, tax and controllership teams to maintain appropriate financial discipline, governance and reliability of business information.

- Support budgeting, forecasting and scenario analysis where required, keeping the focus on actionable business insight rather than reporting alone.

5. Leadership and continuous improvement:

- Build strong working relationships with senior stakeholders, including the CFO, and President Business Head, Business functional heads and communicate financial matters clearly to both finance and non-finance teams.

- Take an ownership-led, hands-on approach to solving business problems, improving financial visibility and strengthening commercial decision-making.

Required Experience and Skills

- Strong experience in Business Finance, Commercial Finance or a Finance Business Partner role, with evidence of direct partnership with business teams and influence on decisions.

- Excellent numerical ability, analytical judgement and commercial acumen; able to connect business outcomes to root causes and practical solutions.

- Demonstrated understanding of P&L performance, revenue drivers, pricing, costs, unit economics, margins and profitability.

- Experience evaluating business cases, new products, growth initiatives or investment decisions is highly desirable.

- Broad end-to-end finance knowledge, including taxation, cash flow, working capital and financial controls.

- Ability to challenge assumptions constructively, work through ambiguity and drive actions with multiple stakeholders.

- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to engage with senior business leaders.

- A proactive, hands-on and resourceful approach, with curiosity about business models, market developments and competitor activity.

Preferred Background

- Experience in education, services, D2C, e-commerce or other high-growth consumer businesses is an advantage; industry is open for candidates with strong commercial finance capability.

- CA, CFA or an MBA in Finance from premier institute would be relevant; demonstrated commercial finance capability and business judgement are essential.