Open Secret - Business Finance Manager

Hiring for Business Finance Manager with 3-5 Years of experience post CA

About Open Secret:

- Open Secret is a brand with a vision to make every Indian family eat better. Powered by a strong operating team of strategists and marketers from Harvard Business School, IIM, and IIT with 40+ years of collective FMCG experience and backed by the strongest set of mentors - Matrix, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal, and Vivek Gambhir.

- Open Secret is a brand with a vision to make every Indian family eat better. Powered by a strong operating team of strategists and marketers from Harvard Business School, IIM, and IIT with 40+ years of collective FMCG experience and backed by the strongest set of mentors - Matrix, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal, and Vivek Gambhir.

- Open Secret began as a challenger F&B brand offering a range of unjunked snacks from no-maida cookies to unjunked chocolates and a better-for-you bhujia. In 2021, Open Secret expanded its focus to become a one-stop platform for all things unjunked to cater to the consumer desire for 'better-for-you' food and beverage options across the day. Working closely with nutritionists and food experts, Open Secret offers a thoughtfully curated range of local and Un-Junked brands and products which are available across various channels.

About the CEO and Co-Founder:

Ahana Gautam is an experienced operator with a passion to build and grow the biggest consumer brands in India. She has a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She started her career at P&G where she worked across multiple functions - supply chain, finance and marketing. Ahana grew her passion for food brands at General Mills in the US where she launched natural and organic products.

Key Outcomes to drive:

- Ensure GAAP guidance are followed as part of monthly book keeping activities

- Pro- actively ensure Ind AS and other statutory compliances on time with limited supervision

- Drive corporate governance best practices from financial internal controls perspective bottoms- up

Key output to drive with the finance support team:

- Month end closing activities to be done timely by the 5th of the following month

- Prepare and execute Sops for procure to pay, billings to collections and record to report accounting cycles

- Liaise with external auditors and bankers for recurring reporting cycles

- Support in fundraising and due diligence activities

Skill sought from prospective candidate:

- Be humble to learn

- Have the humility to cooperate with other colleagues.

- Task automation and structured problem solving skills and clarity on basics of accounting and business finance principles

Growth Prospects:

- Steep career trajectory with direct visibility to the finance head and CEO and gets to build a network with India's marquee NBFCs and VC funds

- Become a go to person for leading end to end finance and compliance operations with my support

- It has the potential to step into my shoes as the organisation grows