Lead School - Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

LEAD school is an integrated school system that delivers excellent learning via a simple technology-based delivery model. We partner with Affordable Private Schools across the country and empower them with an innovative integrated system developed after years of research and analysis of successful school systems around the world. Our mission is to empower India by making excellent education, affordable and accessible and affordable to every child.

The Analyst will play a critical role in helping us achieve this mission by overseeing company financial planning and analysis with deep business understanding, strong work ethics & rigor in financial modeling. We are looking a person who is passionate about working in a growth-oriented organization and find the idea of taking excellent education to these communities inspiring and worth spending time on.

Responsibilities:

- Working with cross functional teams and helping the CXOs arrive at decision making based on financial analysis

- Building management dashboards and updating it on periodic basis to influence decision making

- Creating strong control points to highlight key variances along with multi-dimensional reporting such as Project wise /Profit center wise metrics

- Help in preparing quarterly and annual budgets along with rolling forecast

- Continuously developing newer areas of analysis, automation and process improvements in the department

- Helping management in strategic planning and any adhoc reporting as per required by the management

Requirements:

- High degree of proficiency with Excel, MS Access and PowerPoint

- CA/MBA in Finance with 4-6 years of relevant experience

- Knowledge of Company financial and accounting reporting systems

- Extensive database and statistical analysis experience

- Ability to prepare error free reports with minimal supervision

- Ability to think laterally and apply various check and balance on any given data sets

- Ability to convert complex financial analysis into easily understandable slides/summary

- Contributions to the Education industry desirable

Skills and attributes:

- Analytical having an Eye for detail

- Good communication skills: Ability to co-ordinate work with people across departments and designations

- Possesses honesty, integrity, strong work ethic, and team skills

- Remains curious and is excited and open to new ideas and new ways of doing things

- Proven ability to meet deadlines in high-paced work environment

Location : Mumbai