Playment - Senior Manager - Finance - CA

Exp: 3 - 5 Years

What do we do?

- We are on a mission to expedite the AI-age by providing critical tooling infrastructure for ML engineers to build high accuracy models. Our first product is providing high-quality annotations-as-a-service for Autonomous AI (self-driving cars, drones, industrial robots). We're backed by Y-Combinator, SAIF Partners & Google Launchpad. In the last 18 months, we've established ourselves as a market leader created 200M+ annotations, grown 12X in top line, acquired 50+ enterprise customers across 10+ countries including Didi, Daimler, Ford, Samsung etc.

We are one of the top 10 startups in India as declared by LinkedIn.

Why is it important?

- High-quality training data is quintessential to improve the precision of ML algorithms. Forbes estimates ML engineers spend 70% of their time in pre/post-processing & data management steps. Companies need to build sophisticated tooling (supporting all forms of sensor data), hire and manage hundreds of skilled people to ensure high quality labeled data. Our autonomous driving customers estimate that labelling 1 hour of video data needs 800 man-hours of manual human work. 

- Today, at the wake of the autonomous car industry only few million kms of data has been labeled and 100x more will be labeled before the world sees them on road. Like Dev-Ops is critical to tech implementation, ML-Ops will be a big challenge as ML applications commercialize in the next 10 years. We aim to become an ML data platform, a critical part of ML infrastructure stack.

Join us to witness & influence the unfolding of AI, which is the largest technology wave the world will ever see.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee the financial accounting and ensure robust controls across all processes

- Ensuring smooth monthly closing with proper compliances and accurate payouts in the set timelines

- Oversee all the statutory compliance, RBI/FEMA compliance and MCA/ROC compliance.

- Manage the process of internal audit as well as external audit and ensure timely completion

- Provide analysis of financials and insights to the management team, on a weekly/monthly basis.

- Receivable management and overdue collection follow-ups, cash flow management

- Execute and drive KPI metrics for business and operation performance

- Drive initiatives to enhance financial performance - identify, research and analyze critical financial drivers, risks, opportunities and highlight them to the management team.

- Partner with stakeholders to establish and maintain metrics for cost savings, process improvements.

- Prepare and maintain financial models, including evaluating key assumptions, building scenarios and performing sensitivity analysis. Provide variance analysis on actuals.

- Provide required financial support for key strategic initiatives and develop ad-hoc analysis.

Qualification & Experience Required :

- Chartered Accountant (CA) with min 3 years post-qualification relevant experience.

- Experience in business finance, accounting & tax, financial planning & analysis (FP&A) is mandatory.

- Preferred - Min 1 yr experience in leadership position in the finance dept. for a startup or high growth midsize company.

- Advanced Excel & analytical skills, attention to detail, high ownership, integrity is a must.

- Ability to handle the team and enable decision making, team player working across different teams.

- Multi-tasking oriented with the ability to stay organized, set priorities and meet deadlines.