Freight Tiger - Assistant Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - CA

Assistant Manager FP&A - CA (1-6 yrs)

About Freight Tiger:

Freight Tiger, a subsidiary of the $16 billion listed company Tata Motors Limited (Commercial Vehicles Division).

We offer two core solutions:

- Cloud-based TMS (Transportation Management Software) to streamline the procure-to-cash cycle and provide real-time visibility across the supply chain.

- Carrier Matching Marketplace to help Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) source vehicles transparently and get paid faster.

We currently process 4% of India's total freight, serving 400+ shippers, 1500+ LSPs across 90,000+ locations with marquee clients including Saint Gobain, JSW Steel, ITC, DHL, MRF and Pernod Ricard.

Our mission is simple benefit every stakeholder across the ecosystem, from shippers and logistics providers to carriers, truckers and end customers without disintermediating anyone. Built on trust, transparency and collaboration.

About the Role:

The Assistant Manager/Manager Finance will primarily support business finance, financial planning & analysis, and investor reporting functions. The role focuses on budgeting, forecasting, MIS reporting, and delivering actionable financial insights to aid decision-making. The individual will work closely with cross-functional teams to track performance, support planning cycles, and ensure timely, accurate reporting for management and investors, while contributing to process improvements and strategic initiatives.

Key responsibilities:

- Support the preparation of annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and variance analysis.

- Track actual vs. budgeted expenses and revenue; provide timely insights to management.

- Support financial planning activities and help identify areas for cost optimization.

- Update financial models promptly to reflect the latest actuals and projections, supporting timely and informed decision making.

- Support management with ad hoc financial analysis, scenario modeling, and business cases as needed for decision-making.

- Compile, validate, and distribute monthly MIS reportsincluding P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow summarieswithin two business days of month-end close to align with management review cycles.

- Ensure accuracy and completeness of data inputs to avoid delays and ensure reliability of reports as this needs to be shared with the Board of Directors and Investors.

- Coordinate with the accounting team to ensure timely completion of accruals, reconciliations, and journal entries as per the monthly close calendar.

- Validate that all closing activities are completed and financials are review-ready within the prescribed closing window.

- Partner with internal, sales, and product teams to gather inputs and validate assumptions early in the planning cycle to prevent last-minute delays.

- Facilitate planning meetings and checkpoints to ensure all stakeholders meet agreed timelines.

- Identify opportunities for process improvement (e.g., centralized templates, automation of data pulls, streamlined workflows) to reduce turnaround time.

- Monitor close cycle KPIs to drive ongoing improvements in efficiency and reporting timelines.

- Support management with ad hoc analysis, ensuring a quick turnaround without compromising insight quality.

- Contribute to strategic initiatives (e.g., business cases, scenario planning) with well-defined deliverables, schedules, and milestone tracking.

- Ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks under tight timelines.

Preferred qualifications:

- Chartered Accountant with 0-2 years of experience with article-ship in either Statutory Audit/ Internal Audit/ Risk Advisory from Big 4 firms.

- Open to consider, CA Internship with Big Four in Taxation (GST), provided strong post qualification experience in FP&A of 2 years. Strong Class X, XII marks and not many attempts to clear CA.

- Excellent MS Excel skills and working knowledge of accounting tools (Zoho/QuickBooks/Tally).

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- High attention to detail as the individual is expected to work on critical investor/ board queries with a sense of ownership.

- Good verbal and written communication skills. High on energy.

- Ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks under tight timelines.