Founders' Office Associate – Operations and Compliance

Ananant Systems Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ananant Systems Private Limited in Bengaluru is seeking a Founders' Office Associate to own company operations, compliance, audits, costs and budgets, investor relations, and internal communication. You will work directly with the CEO and CTO, managing budgets, compliance calendars, and stakeholder updates.

You will drive cost controls, prepare investor materials, and oversee weekly founders' reviews while ensuring smooth onboarding and operations across offices and tools.

Qualifications

• 1 to 5 years of experience. Comfortable with statutory compliance, audits and financial models, and able to run processes with many moving parts to a deadline.
• Strong Excel modelling and a solid grasp of business financials: P&L, cash flow, budgets and unit economics.
• Working knowledge of Indian statutory compliance and audits: company law, GST, TDS and labour regulations.
• Attention to detail in records, numbers and filings.
• Clear writing for formal audiences: investor updates, board papers, policies.
• Daily, hands-on use of AI tools.
• Discretion with salaries, investor information and personal data.
• It helps if you have an MBA, ideally with a consulting background.

Responsibilities

• Own costs and budgets: build and maintain budget, track spend, flag variances, maintain runway view.
• Ensure compliance and audits: maintain statutory calendar, prepare for audits, implement controls.
• Oversee operations: hiring/onboarding, vendors, offices, internal tools and processes.
• Manage investor relations and communication: updates, board materials, data room, respond to requests.
• Maintain operating cadence: weekly founders' review, decisions log, track milestones and risks.
• Lead internal communication: company updates and policies for employees.

Skills

Excel modelling

Clear writing

Attention to detail

Discretion with sensitive data

Daily AI tools usage

Education

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft 365

AI tools

Job description

Founders' Office Associate – Operations and Compliance

Ananant Systems | Bengaluru | Full-time | Occasional travel within India | Reports to the CEO

Ananant is hiring a Founders' Office Associate to own company operations, compliance and audits, costs and budgets, investor relations, and internal communication, working directly with the CEO and CTO.

ABOUT ANANANT

Ananant Systems is an Indian deep-tech semiconductor company. We design chips for small-cell 4G/5G and camera applications, with teams in Bengaluru, Noida and San Diego. We are backed by venture capital and by national semiconductor programmes, and we are growing several-fold over the next 18 months.

THE ROLE

As Ananant grows across several offices and entities, the company has to stay compliant, audit-ready and disciplined on cost, and investors and the team have to stay informed. This role owns all of that, before the company has dedicated finance, HR or compliance heads.

You will work directly with the CEO and CTO. You run the internal operations of the company, and you give the founders, the board and investors a clear view of where the company stands on cost, compliance and execution.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

• Costs and budgets. Build and maintain the budget and cost model. Track spend against plan every month, flag variances, and keep the cash and runway view current.
• Compliance and audits. Maintain the statutory calendar for every entity, with the company secretary and accountants. Prepare the company for statutory and grant audits, and put the controls in place to pass them.
• Operations. Run hiring and onboarding logistics, vendors, offices, and the internal tools and processes the company runs on.
• Investor relations and communication. Prepare investor updates, board materials and the monthly management information pack with the CEO. Maintain the data room and respond to investor and board requests.
• Operating cadence. Run the weekly founders' review, the decisions log, and the tracking of company milestones and risks.
• Internal communication. Own company updates and policies, so that every employee knows what is happening and why.

WHAT YOU WILL DELIVER

Expected outcomes in the first year:

• Every statutory filing on time, across every entity, and clean audits.
• Monthly budget versus actuals, with a current runway view, delivered on schedule.
• Spend controls and approval limits in place and in use.
• Investor updates and board materials delivered on schedule, with every figure traceable to its source.
• Every new joiner onboarded and productive from the first week.
• A weekly founders' review that runs on accurate information, with every decision owned and dated.

WHY THIS ROLE

• Scope. Finance operations, compliance, investor relations, people operations and internal communication in one role, each being set up for the first time.
• Direct access. You work with the CEO and CTO directly, on decisions that matter to the company.
• Sector exposure. You will learn how a semiconductor company is funded, governed and run, across venture and government capital.
• A path to leadership. The role is expected to grow into leading a function as the company scales.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

1 to 5 years of experience. Comfortable with statutory compliance, audits and financial models, and able to run processes with many moving parts to a deadline. Clear writer, strong with numbers, and able to run work end to end with limited supervision.

You bring:

• Strong Excel modelling and a solid grasp of business financials: P&L, cash flow, budgets and unit economics.
• Working knowledge of Indian statutory compliance and audits: company law, GST, TDS and labour regulations.
• Attention to detail in records, numbers and filings.
• Clear writing for formal audiences: investor updates, board papers, policies.
• Daily, hands-on use of AI tools.
• Discretion with salaries, investor information and personal data.

It helps if you have:

• An MBA, ideally with a consulting background.
• Founder or early-stage startup experience.
• Experience in a finance, audit or operations role at a startup, or in preparing investor or board material.
• Fluency with Microsoft 365.