Samara Capital - Business Analyst - Paradise Food Court

Samara Capital is a mid market Private Equity Fund, with assets under management of $600mn. The fund has a strong interest in consumer, healthcare and business services sectors, and has investments across 20 portfolio companies.

Paradise Food Court Pvt Ltd is one of Samara's portfolio companies, based in Hyderabad. Promoted by the Himathi family, The company is in the food services space, and is well known for its legendary biryani. Samara invested in the company in 2014. Currently present in South India across 4 cities, Paradise is in a rapid expansion phase to other parts of the country/internationally.

Paradise Food Court is looking for a business analyst who will have the following key responsibilities:

1. Work with the CFO and CEO to cull out compelling business insights from the data available in the system

2. Prepare and track key management reports to enable data driven decision making

3. Act as control centre to regularly track key operational and financial metrics, and raise a red flag when deviations are noticed

4. Collect market intelligence and do internal as well as external benchmarking for Paradise to ensure the performance on key metrics is in line with benchmarks

The candidate must have 2+ years of experience in a similar role, should be analytically very strong and have a working knowledge of powerpoint and microsoft excel. Understanding of basic financial statements and interpreting the business implication of the same is a key pre-requisite.

Undergrad/Post grad from a renowned school.