Director - Business Finance - Startup - IIM/FMS/MDI/XLRI

This Position for once Start up in Gurgaon JD is given below

Location: Gurugram

Role: Will be part of the finance leadership team reporting into CFO.

The candidate will build a highly analytical and data driven business finance function and will perform following tasks:

- Set up a robust account wise forecasting model to help improve predictability and bring in a financial discipline

- Negotiate commercials in a way to help maximize Revenue and EBITDA.

- Setup monthly review cadence for Leadership Team members comprising deeper dives of specific P&L items

- Help build a framework for annual operating plan, and conduct periodic budget vs actual variance analysis

- Work closely with cross functional teams to resolve issues across P&L

- Scale vertically from strategic business building projects to detailed spreadsheet modelling and analysis.

- Develop clear understanding of key business drivers, analyses key financial metrics, provide value add analysis, support to sales / finance management

- Guide the team on rigorous data-based analysis for any decision-making scenario, bringing out business insights not visible in regular reviews

- Proactive in reviewing financial information, identifying exception / inconsistencies, initiate action and follow-up for logical closure.

- Support finance / business leaders in simulation of traffic projections and conversion, working out the right lever to invest on attaining the traffic target, including cost optimization plans

- Establish ROI on marketing investments, with right assessment of risks and opportunities

- Understand the levers impact Net promoter Score (NPS)

- Build operational plan for contact center resources optimizing on utilization and channel mix

- Participate in budget discussion and support scenario building / simulation modelling

Background & Experience:

- MBA from Tier 1 Business Schools preferred with 4+ years of experience.

- Candidates from Management Consulting or from Ecommerce Companies will be preferred

- You should have worked with business leaders directly, and functionally have experience in business partnering, planning and reporting.

- Hands on experience on reporting and visualization tolls e.g., Tableau, Power BI etc.

Skills and Mindset:

- Possess an entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to achieve results in a fast pace and rapid growth environment characterized by dynamism and ambiguity.

- Seen as strategic thought partner to business on where the business needs to go, why and how will we win

- Influence and drive business decision / action with appropriate analysis and comments.

- Have a customer first attitude looking at customer retention and repeat rate as the primary metric driving any investment for marketing and customer experience

- Understands the next level of details / top macro story for his function industry trends, customer, brands, competition and is able to leverage that understanding to drive insights / analysis and connect with bottom up business drivers / data

- Ability to deal with ambiguity and respond with right trade offs

- Takes a balanced view of business reality and process controls in every decision framework