Meesho - Business Finance Manager - CA

ABOUT MEESHO :

Meesho is building a disruptive distribution channel via social selling on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social channels. Meesho has so far enabled 30,000 suppliers and more than 2,000,000 resellers to start and grow their online business minus any investment, providing tools around sourcing, logistics and payments. These social sellers are small retailers, housewives, students, retired citizens and many other aspiring entrepreneurs across India.

If you want to know how Meesho is impacting the lives of resellers across the country, then hear it from our entrepreneurs here and about Meesho's four year journey here. Meesho is Series D funded with an investment round led by South African company Naspers Ventures along with participation from Facebook and existing investors such as SAIF, Sequoia, Shunwei Capital, RPS and Venture Highway. We have raised $ 190 million till date.

Meesho is headquartered in Bengaluru, India and was one of the three Indian companies to be selected for Y Combinator in 2016. It was also a part of the first batch of Google Launchpad - Solve for India programme. In 2018 and 2019 (for two consecutive years), Meesho was named by LinkedIn as LinkedIn India's Top 25 Startups - 2019 to work for based on top talent pull, jobseeker interest and levels of professional engagement with its employees. Recently, Meesho was also featured on Y Combinator's Top Companies List 2019.

Role Brief :

As a Manager Business Finance, you will be an acting CEO or CFO of a Business unit. Your role is very critical to the organization as you will be driving and identifying the gaps in the P&L of a Business unit basically directly impacting the organization revenue and growth. ROI mapping and developing a mechanism to understand the cash inflow and outflow will be a crucial delivery in this role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- To work closely with the business unit and actively participate in its operations and management

- To develop financial plans along with various business and technology teams with rigor on bottom's up approach

- To review the plans vs actuals on regular basis; in depth analysis of variance and communicating the same proactively creating right visibility and enabling planning of actionable

- To track and measure key financials and business metrics

- To jointly own the OKRs of the respective business unit and build an AOP to achieve the same

- Completes account level month-end closing reviews, procedures, and corrections as needed

- Directs and oversees the overall policies, objectives, and initiatives of the revenue cycle activities to optimize operations

- Conduct periodic meetings with direct reports to assure staff understand assigned tasks and can manage time constraints

- Do scenario analysis and develop business plans on product enhancement or business initiatives, present top management with analysis

- Review the plans vs actuals on a regular basis; in-depth analysis of variance and communicating the same proactively creating right visibility and enabling planning of actionable

- Handle Adhoc requests and problem-solving with a short turnaround time and supplement such requests with appropriate analysis and comments to support decision making

- Participate & Drive standardization automation projects for process efficiency

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE :

- 3 to 6 years Exp, Chartered Accountant or Post-Graduate in Finance

- Should hold 3+ years of experience as Business Finance

- Strong analytical rigor and problem-solving skills

- Strong communication & Interpersonal skills

- Proficient in MS Office

- Proactive takes initiative, self-motivated, team player

- Strong collaboration, stake holder management and interpersonal skills

- Willingness to hustle