Stanza Living - Senior Role - Business Finance

Who we are:

Stanza Living is India's largest and fastest growing tech-enabled managed accommodation company that delivers a hospitality-led living experience to migrant students and young working professionals across India. We have a full-stack business model that focuses on design, development and delivery of daily living solutions tailored to the young consumers- lifestyle. From smartly-planned residences, host of amenities and services for hassle-free living to exclusive community engagement programs - everything is seamlessly integrated through technology to ensure the highest consumer delight.

Today, we are:

- India's largest managed accommodation company with over 50,000 beds under management across 16 cities

- Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors - Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners

- Recognized as the Best Real Estate Tech company across the Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn

- LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2019

The market:

The managed accommodation market size across India's top 30 cities in India is expected to grow more than 4x in the next decade - from USD 20 billion today to USD 80 billion by 2030. Today, Stanza Living is the market leader in the space by a fair margin with more than 65% market share in the student housing space and 32%+ market share in the overall organized managed accommodation industry. The industry in India is evolving at a rapid pace, with investments from national and international institutional investors bringing in a large amount of capital. As the business evolves, the organized managed accommodation industry is expected to transform the face of the rental housing market across urban centers.

The opportunity:

Finance business partners are accountants who work alongside different business departments, providing financial information, tools, analysis and insight to executives, challenging their thinking, helping them make more informed decisions and driving business strategy. Their role is to provide 'real time' support and analysis, to be a trusted adviser and to add value that will assist in decision making.

- Providing analysis and delivering insight that links financial reports to business strategies

- Improving the impact, and understanding, of financial reporting on business performance

- Providing effective commercial procedures, or initiating change, to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered

- Building partnerships and strong relationships with all stakeholders and their teams and providing financial support to commercial decision making

- Delivering analysis and insight on business opportunities; providing options and scenarios for business decisions

- Conducting market research studies and analysis to assess current market trends

- Presenting financial performance, full year forecasts and budget variances including understanding financial opportunities and risk

- Challenging current ways of working, driving efficiencies and cost savings wherever possible

- Assisting with year-end audit

- Dealing with and working through issues of conflict and operational challenges with project teams and other stakeholders

- Understanding the cost drivers of the business and providing insight to the non-finance members

Who we are looking for:

- This is very much a strategic role. Information and reporting are just the tip of the iceberg. What really matters is your ability to see the value in the information you provide and to inspire others to make use of it.

- Extremely high ownership, self-starter ability to get hands dirty, and work in a constantly-changing and fast-growing environment

- Establish collaborative and trusting relationships with the business's key internal leaders and stakeholders in order to ensure that there is a free flow of ideas and information across the business

- First principle thinking and strong problem solving

- You must be able to apply your analytical skills beyond the traditional functions of finance and to bring them to bear on a broad range of commercial issues.