Head - Finance - Educational Games Startup

Come and join our growing edtech startup to build your career in an entrepreneurial environment using analytical skills to provide financial insights and drive operational strategy !!

Our client offers a subscription based service for kids that offers an inquiry and play-based program for early childhood learning at home for children. It is a startup founded by alumni from IIT, IIM and Georgia Tech that is backed by industry veterans and funded by top-tier venture capital firms. We design, develop and deliver activity kits to the homes of the subscribers every month on a subscription basis. The boxes contain all material and instructions for hands-on fun activities that children in the age group of 2-12 years can do with their parents.

As Head - Finance, you will be responsible for all areas related to financial reporting and effective finance management.

Detailed responsibilities include:

- Leading the End-to-End Finance, MIS and reporting function

- Developing reports for top management summarizing the business financial position in areas of income, expenses, capital usage and cash flows

- Providing financial insights and summaries to enable the management team to make better decisions about formulating and executing business strategy

- Reviewing monthly operating reports for accuracy, completeness and major variances between actual and budget results

- Reviewing Balance sheet & Profit & Loss Accounts along with complete schedule for audit

- Ensuring internal audit schedule/plans are executed on time without compromising on quality parameters

- Responsible for keeping a tab on the profit margin and also timely sales purchase reconciliation to ensure zero revenue leakage

- Analysing business channels profitability through revenue & expense gap statement

- Establishing and monitoring policies and procedures within generally accepted accounting principles and corporate guidelines to ensure sufficient cash flow, reduced operating costs, and increased revenues

Candidate Profile:

- Proven industry experience in managing finance and accounting, audit and compliance process

- Candidate from B2C business or any consumers product industry is a great add on

- Proven ability to leverage strong analytical, supervisory and management skills throughout the organization

- Possess strong ability for analytical review of financial statements and evaluation

- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills