The company operates in the luxury interior design and turnkey home execution industry, delivering bespoke residential and hospitality spaces.
Job Description
Role Overview
The Business Finance Manager will play a critical role in strengthening the business finance function at organization. This is a hands-on role involving financial planning and analysis, collections, cash flow management, project profitability, MIS, budgeting, forecasting, controllership, and process improvement. You will work closely with leadership and cross-functional teams including Sales, Design, Execution, Purchase, and Operations to improve financial visibility, strengthen cash discipline, track business performance, and drive better financial decision-making across Bengaluru and Gurugram operations.
Key Responsibilities
Business Finance & Planning:
- Own collection planning and tracking, ensuring adherence to collection SOPs and achievement of monthly and annual targets
- Monitor customer collections against project milestones and drive closure of overdue receivables
- Manage day-to-day cash flow and liquidity planning across business locations
- Prepare and review location-wise MIS for Bengaluru and Gurugram covering both cash and accounting performance
- Track project-level revenue, costs, margins, and profitability and highlight deviations requiring business action
- Drive budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and company-wide expense planning
- Lead the Annual Operating Plan and support target-setting across business functions
- Track targets versus actual performance and provide actionable insights to leadership
- Own incentive workings including calculation logic, SOPs, validations, and payout processing
- Review business dashboards and reports maintained by internal and external teams for accuracy and relevance
- Own the monthly books closure process and ensure closure within defined timelines
- Maintain and review financial statement schedules and supporting workings
- Manage deferred revenue workings, including monthly movement and reconciliation
- Review accounting entries and financial data across Bengaluru and Gurugram operations
- Maintain and continuously improve finance trackers, including accurate nature-wise mapping of transactions
- Support advance tax workings and other management-level financial analysis
- Coordinate with statutory auditors and internal stakeholders for timely audit closure
- Ensure operational and accounting data remain reconciled and aligned
ERP, MIS & Process Improvement:
- Drive the ongoing migration from Tally to Zoho, including data validation, process mapping, reconciliation, and implementation
- Build and improve MIS, dashboards, trackers, and management reports using Excel and Google Sheets
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring finance processes and improve reporting efficiency
- Build and continuously refine finance SOPs, controls, and review mechanisms
- Strengthen data integrity and ensure consistency across operational and financial systems
Commercial & Cross-Functional Finance:
- Review customer and vendor agreements from a commercial and financial risk perspective
- Partner with Sales, Design, Execution, Purchase, and Operations teams to ensure financial alignment with on-ground business activity
- Review estimate trackers, payment trackers, sales MIS, project margins, collection trackers, and other operational data from a finance perspective
- Identify financial and commercial risks early and work with respective teams to drive closure
- Provide leadership with actionable insights on collections, cash flow, margins, costs, and overall business performance
Education & Experience
Qualification:
- Chartered Accountant (CA) – Mandatory
Experience:
- 3–5 years of relevant experience in Business Finance, FP&A, Commercial Finance, Controllership, or a similar role
- Strong hands-on experience in MIS, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, working capital, and financial analysis
- Experience in project-level profitability and cost analysis will be strongly preferred
- Hands-on expertise in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Tally, and Zoho Books
- Experience in project-based industries such as interior design, construction, real estate, contracting, or similar businesses will be preferred
- Exposure to multi-location business operations will be an advantage
Skills Required
- Strong financial and analytical understanding with the ability to connect operational data with financial outcomes
- Good understanding of cash flow, working capital, project profitability, and management reporting
- Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills with strong comfort working with large datasets
- Ability to independently analyse numbers and identify business issues rather than only prepare reports
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work closely with multiple cross-functional teams
- High attention to detail and strong ownership mindset
- Process-driven approach with the ability to build systems and improve existing ways of working