Finance Leader - Deep-Tech Climate Startup

About Client

The client is a fast-growing deep-tech climate startup helping industries solve water sustainability challenges using AI, IoT, and analytics. They've empowered clients to reduce water usage and cut costs. and recently raised a fund in Pre-Series A, they are scaling and looking for passionate changemakers to join the mission.

About the Role:

We are looking for a hands-on and analytical Finance Manager to take end-to-end ownership of project-level financial tracking, pricing estimation, material accounting, and working capital management. This role is critical in enabling sound commercial decision-making and building investor confidence as the client scales its operations.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Project management - The client will have multiple projects with multiple clients. Sometimes, multiple projects with the same client. Tracking the cost and revenue at the project level is very important. It has to start from the system design, data capturing, accumulating costs and recognising revenue. Projects may spill over from one year to another, or be multi-year projects.

2. Pricing estimation: The client is not selling a standard product or service. Mostly it will be a project based revenue. Price estimation, deal negotiation, matching the project budget vs actual etc are very important.

3. Investor relationship - MIS to the management and investor is very crucial for servicing the current investors as well as the future investors.

4. Material Accounting: Material will form a major cost item. Materials may move from supplier to customer directly, or to a third party for fabrication, and them move from one job worker to another. Tracking the material movement through the accounting system is crucial.

5. Working capital management - including cash, bank, inventory, receivables, and payables is crucial. The bulk of the money will be locked in working capital.

6. Grip on accounting system - this is fundamental and very important.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Experience & Skills

- 5+ years in accounting/finance (preferably in startups)

- Hands-on experience with ERP and Excel

- Strong grasp of accounting standards, GST, MIS, and data analysis

- Excellent attention to detail, problem-solving, and time management

- Effective communicator and team player

Must have: Independently handling the books of accounts of a small/medium size company; with material accounting and project accounting knowledge.

Good to have: Knowledge of bank funding, accounting controls, budgeting, variance analysis, financial analysis and reporting.

Excellent to have: Knowledge of Company Law relating to finance and accounts, Income tax law relating to TDS and tax computation for business, basic knowledge of forex risk management, project costing and pricing.

Compensation & Benefits:

- Competitive salary + performance incentives

- ESOPs as per company policy

- Medical insurance

- Generous vacation policy & flexible work hours