Udaan - Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

About udaan:

udaan is a B2B ecommerce platform that brings traders, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and manufacturers in India on to a single platform. Our goal is to make 'doing business' easy in India & make B2B commerce convenient and efficient.

udaan Capital is the NBFC arm of udaan & offers credit services to buyers and sellers on and off udaan's B2B ecommerce platform to grow their business further. This space is largely untapped with less than 10% of MSMEs having access to working capital loans from financial institutions. In this way, udaan is uniquely positioned to formalize &scale trade credit.

Role description:

Function: Credit

Sub Function: FP&A

Location: Bangalore Reports to: FP&A Lead - Credit Business

Team Composition: Individual Contributor

Job Responsibilities:

- Work with the FP&A Lead to develop strategy for the Credit business and foster a deep understanding of the numerous variables driving business and leverage those to create multiple views for creating actionable plans for the business teams.

- Analyze and identify red flags in the overall financial and operational performance, and propose ways to bridge them (Learning, Process & other Initiatives).

- Own analytics initiatives required to solve problem areas and proactively leverage data and insights to inform decision making, while proactively exploring avenues for deployment of analytics solutions.

- Leverage existing data from various aspects of the business as well as external and clickstream data to identify, translate and publish insights to a cross-functional group of stakeholders.

- Own the execution of plans made from analytical exercises to ensure findings are actioned upon and continuous feedback is collected and utilized to fine-tune the approach.

- Bring closure with accurate reconciliation between Management MIS, Org P&L and Operational Dashboards while working closely with the financial operations team.

- Lead/ participate and actively drive new initiatives and pilot standardization, automation projects with the relevant Product/ Tech teams for process improvement and execution efficiency

Functional Competencies:

1. Problem solving: The role needs the individual to be able to solve for a given business problem in sometimes an ambiguous state and with multiple data streams impacting decision making.

2. Data driven/ analytical: The role requires the individual to be comfortable in processing and analyzing volume of multiple data streams to enable meeting business targets.

3. Collaborative skills: This role requires a lot of cross functional working and engagement with senior leaders to create success. S/he should be able to seamlessly navigate these relationship dynamics in a high growth, young, agile business environment.

4. Results orientation: The role is required to deliver on daily numbers, short-term goals and long-term milestones set by business and efficacy. Meeting these milestones would be critical to create success.

Candidate Profile:

- Must have 1 to 3 years of demonstrated experience of working in process oriented and high-quality work environments.

- Experience in start-up/ eCommerce preferred.

- Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.

- Strong business and commercial acumen.

- Excellent Excel and SQL knowledge and, ability to navigate large volumes of data. Knowledge of R/Python will be an added advantage.

- Strong Financial modelling and Data Visualization skills.

- Strong communication, analytical and inter-personal skills.

- Knowledge of financial statements will be an added advantage