Vice President - Business Finance - EdTech

A leading,extremely well funded B2B2C edtech organisation is looking for a VP - Business Finance

The VP, Business Finance will play a critical role in helping the company achieve their mission by providing strong partnership to the business team.

Responsibilities :

- Key stakeholder in delivering business growth by partnering with CCO and CFO. Top business performance targets to be achieved :

a. Number of schools signed up

b. Annual Contract Value & Revenue

c. Revenue per Student and Pricing

d. Collections

e. Contribution Margin on the B2B business

- Drive LTV:CAC targets of the business

- Enable decision making on sales channels to invest in by looking at by channel productivity

- Marketing payout analysis for decision making on investment

- COGS & Supply Chain target delivery

- Lead thinking on pricing for different product lines and ensure business compliance with agreed pricing.

- Oversee and manage spending in line with agreed budgets for the business team

- Design and implement strong collections and recovery plan

- Monitor business performance and highlight deviations with recommendations to course correction

- Create dashboards and reporting to enable quick review and decision making

- Use technology to set up strong and reliable processes to automate

- Drive high accuracy and reliability of data to ensure appropriate decision making

- Support in Business Due Diligence during fund raise

- Partner with other Finance leaders to set up a strong finance function within the Company

Requirements :

- MBA Finance with 12-15 years of experience or/and CA with strong business finance experience

- Knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems, CRM systems

- Strong verbal and written communication skills with a strong ability to efficiently communicate financial results to multi-functional team.

- Strong business partnering and collaboration skills.

- High degree of proficiency with technology and ERP systems

- Experience of partnering with business and delivering business results

- Experience of working with Sales & Marketing teams

Skills and attributes :

- Possesses honesty, integrity, strong work ethic, and multi-functional collaboration skills

- Strong problem solving and communication abilities; is organized and efficient

- Strong analytical skills and ability to connect the dots with business realities

- Proven ability to meet deadlines in high-paced work environment

- Proficient with multiple technologies

- Leadership skills to independently build and lead a strong team

- Excited by and open to new ideas and new ways of doing things