Pepper - Assistant Manager/Manager - Business Finance

Assistant Manager/Manager-Business Finance

- Pepper is building India's largest content marketplace that brings companies and content creators together to scale up content creation processes across 10 content verticals and 150+ content categories, 40+ content verticals, and 40+ global languages. Over the past 3 years, we've worked with brands like Adobe, upGrad, Swiggy, Dunzo, BusinessWorld, Digit, Shiksha.com, Rapido, BookMyShow, UrbanClap, Yatra, Bewakoof, YourStory, Bharat Matrimony, and 300+ other brands. With a growing network of 50,000+ freelance creative minds, we thrive to become a one-stop solution for the content needs of the world's biggest brands-and we have fun doing it. Now, we're calling all you rule-breakers and risk-takers who see the world differently and are bold enough to reinvent it.

- We are on the path to building a global on-demand content marketplace platform that allows for collaboration, discovery and upskilling for all our creators. Now we are in a rapid expansion phase to enter into more content service offerings, engage a wide spectrum of content creators and at the same time, scale up our existing services.

- Our focus is to make sure we have the right set of people delivering what we promise. People who obsess over operations, focus on the details and lead change by being curious, incisive, and courageous in everything they do-on a foundation of unyielding integrity.

What are we looking for :

We are currently looking at candidates for our Business Finance Team :

Job Responsibilities :

(A) Overall Metrics Responsibility:

- Gross Margin Profile ; Need to analyse margins for every customer month on month across categories, geographies, content type, customer type, and industry

- NRR and GRR ; Create detailed customer segmentation and drive cohorts' expansion with focus on both Revenue expansion and Churn Mapping

- Recurring Revenue ; Benchmarking each customer acquisition based on Recurring revenue and driving quality and predictability in revenue growth

- Contribution Margins and EBITDA margins ; Identify what are the key drivers and cost- centers / what does our contribution margin profile look like and how do we drive bottom line improvement

(B) Budgeting & Forecasting (AOP):

- Cost Forecasting on a monthly level and doing a detailed analysis across cost optimization, subscriptions

- Revenue Predictability and projections and determine the predictability of revenue monthly, quarterly and annually

- Giving directional sense on how the P&L is shaping up vis- vis our initial goals

(C) P&L Management, FP&A & Business reviews:

- Identifying leading and lagging metrics and accordingly working with the business leaders to drive performance and accountability

- Setting up a Reporting framework on metrics that impact P&L and indicate the health of the business across multiple splices

- Analysis to be presented to the board across board meetings / investor requests

- Establish ROI on marketing investments, with the right assessment of risks and opportunities

- Conducting business case analysis of new programs and services

- Burn Optimization

- Guide the team on rigorous data-based analysis for any decision-making scenario, bringing out business insights not visible in regular reviews

- Participate in monthly closing calls with the controller's organization for P&L Review

(D) Special Projects:

- Collaborate and work with cross-functional teams to drive strategic projects

- Help analyse the impact (Before and After) and drive adoption, course-correct as required