Udaan - Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

FP&A 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.

About the Role:

The role is critical for business performance and would require the incumbent to create a competitive advantage for the team and the organization. The role requires the incumbent to work closely and coordinate internal and external teams to create success.

Job Responsibilities:

- Work with the FP&A Lead to develop strategy for the Credit business and foster a deep understanding of the numerous variables

- Analyse and identify red flags in the overall financial and operational performance, and propose ways to bridge them

- 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 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

- 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

- Problem solving: Solve business problem with multiple data streams impacting decision making.

- Data driven/ analytical: Process and analyse volume of multiple data streams to enable meeting business targets.

- Collaborative skills: Cross-functional working and engagement with senior leaders to create success. Seamlessly navigate relationship dynamics in a high growth, young, agile business environment.

- Results orientation: Deliver on daily numbers, short-term goals and long-term milestones set by business and efficacy.

Candidate Profile : 

- Must have 2-5 years of demonstrated experience of working in process oriented and high quality work environments.

- Experience in start-up/ E-Commerce 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.

More About us:

Founded in 2016, we operate across categories including lifestyle, electronics, home and kitchen, staples, fruits and vegetables, FMCG, toys, and general merchandise. Our platform enables small manufacturers, farmers, mills, and brands to market and sell their products across the country with 100% payment security and complete transparency. While doing so, it enables small businesses such as shopkeepers, kirana, restaurants, street vendors, chemists, offices, small factories, contractors, etc. to source from a large selection of products at the best prices from all over the country through the udaan App. Our e-commerce platform has enabled logistics and provides fast, low-cost, low-wastage, highly-reliable shipping and delivery of products across India. udaan Capital, the Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) arm focuses on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) financing services, provides financial products for sellers and buyers to grow their business. udaan is headquartered in Bangalore and has a network of over a million retailers across 900+ cities connected to over 20,000+ sellers.

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