Business Finance Manager - CA

Etrade Online; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Etrade Online in India seeks a Chartered Accountant with 7–10 years of experience in ecommerce/retail to lead financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reviews. The role partners with business teams to optimize margins, pricing, and working capital, delivering data-driven insights to drive profitability.

You will own cost management, policy standardization, and cross-functional collaboration to align financial strategies with marketplace goals and benchmarks.

Qualifications

• CA qualification with 7–10 years in ecommerce/retail (marketplace & brand)
• Experience in financial analysis with large data sets and deriving actionable insights
• Experience in quarterly and monthly financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting
• Prior experience in business performance reviews and cross-functional partnering

Responsibilities

• Partner with business teams to achieve top-line and bottom-line targets.
• Drive discussions with business teams on revenue management, pricing and discounts with a path to profitability
• Own sustainable cost reduction methods, policy formulation and standardization aligned to benchmarks
• Work with In-Stock/Supply chain teams to optimize inventory investment and related projects
• Drive strategies around user growth, customer share, and funnel growth for marketplace health
• Review historical trends, prepare forecast data, build financial models and evaluate outcomes
• Continuously monitor financial KPIs, analyze variances and causes
• Monitor competitor activity and pricing trends to benchmark performance and identify improvement areas
• Build and manage business finance for forecasting, variance analysis and problem solving
• Facilitate regular business review meetings and present key insights as the source of truth

Skills

Financial analysis

Data analysis

Forecasting

Budgeting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Chartered Accountant

Job description

Roles and responsibilities:

• - Partner with business teams to achieve both top-line and bottom-line targets.
• - Independently drive discussions with business teams related to revenue management, pricing & discounts and working capital with a clear view on path to profitability
• - Work closely with relevant teams and take complete ownership of sustainable cost reduction methods, policy formulation & standardization in line with industry benchmarks.
• - Work with In-Stock/Supply chain team to optimize the inventory investment and drive the project related to the return, unhealthy and unsold inventory optimization.
• - Drive strategies around user growth, customer share, organic customer growth to build a healthy Top of the Funnel
• - Review and analyze historical business trends, understand demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop financial models, and evaluate business outcomes.
• - Continuously monitor financial and business KPIs, highlight trends and analyze causes of variance.
• - Keenly follow the competitive landscape (other ecommerce platforms) and feed management with relevant intelligence with reference to the marketplace & pricing trends.
• - Monitor competitor activity and strategies to benchmark performance and identifying improvement areas.
• - Build and manage business finance for forecasting, variance analysis and problem solving.
• - Facilitate regular business review meetings: present key insights and provide recommendations for decision making and be the Source of Truth w.r.t. business metrics.

The Ideal Candidate:

• - CA qualified professional with 7-10 years of experience, preferably in the E-Commerce/Retail Industry (marketplace and brand side)
• - Experience in financial analysis, working with large amounts of data and an ability to drive actionable insights out of data.
• - Experience in Quarterly and Monthly Financial reporting, annual budgeting and forecasting process.
• - Prior experience in business performance reviewing
• - Problem Solving Ability while working with cross functional team.
• - Partnering with Channel heads to drive margins through portfolio optimization and controlling cost levers.