General Manager – Financial Planning & Analysis KPB Consultants

The Corporate Institute; Gurgaon; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

The Corporate Institute in India is seeking a General Manager – FP&A to build and strengthen the FP&A function from the ground up, guiding financial planning, business partnering, and strategic decision-making as the company prepares for its IPO journey.

You will transform fragmented FP&A into a structured, forward-looking finance organization, implement forecasting, AOP, dashboards, and performance reviews, and lead a small team to deliver real-time insights for leadership.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of FP&A / strategic finance experience.
• Strong financial planning and forecasting capabilities.
• Experience in business partnering and driving insights for decisions.
• Exposure to consumer tech/platform startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Set up and transform FP&A across the organization.
• Act as strategic finance partner to business units; provide actionable insights.
• Own forecasting, planning cycles, and performance tracking.
• Lead data storytelling with dashboards and automation; move from Excel to real-time reporting.
• Analyze unit economics and product/channel performance; translate into leadership insights.
• Oversee market benchmarking and competitive intelligence from a finance lens.
• Drive IPO readiness through reporting standards and investor-focused processes.
• Lead and develop FP&A team; define roles and scale the function.

Skills

FP&A experience

Financial planning

Business partnering

Strategic finance

Stakeholder management

Startup/consumer tech experience

Unit economics

IPO readiness

Education

CA

Job description

Role Overview:

We are looking for a General Manager – FP&A to build and strengthen the FP&A function from the ground up. This role will play a critical part in driving financial planning, business partnering, and strategic decision-making, especially as the organization prepares for its IPO journey.

The current FP&A setup exists in fragments, and this role will be responsible for creating a structured, forward-looking, and insight-driven finance function.

Key Responsibilities:

1. FP&A Setup & Transformation:

• Establish and structure the FP&A function across the organization
• Move the finance function from historical reporting – forward-looking planning & predictability

Build robust frameworks for:

• Forecasting
• Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
• Financial modeling

2. Business Finance Partnering:

• Act as a strategic finance partner to business teams
• Provide actionable insights to support business decision-making
• Drive alignment between finance and business teams through structured inputs and outputs
• Enable data-backed decision-making across functions

3. Forecasting, Planning & Performance Management

Own and drive:

• Forecasting accuracy
• Financial planning cycles
• Performance tracking against plans
• Develop a predictable financial outlook for the organization
• Introduce structured performance review mechanisms

4. Data, Dashboarding & Automation

• Transition from Excel-based reporting to automated dashboards

Work closely with the data resource to:

• Build dashboards
• Enable real-time reporting
• Improve visibility for leadership

5. Business Insights & Unit Economics

Drive deep analysis across:

• Unit economics
• Product/channel performance
• Retention & lifetime value
• Translate data into meaningful financial insights for leadership

6. Market & Competitive Intelligence (Finance Lens)

• Oversee financial benchmarking and competitive analysis

Leverage available data to derive insights on:

• Market movement
• Competitor performance (high-level due to limited public data)
• Work with internal data resources to build intelligence inputs

7. IPO Readiness

• Support finance transformation aligned with IPO requirements
• Build systems, reporting standards, and processes required from an investor perspective

8. Team Leadership & Capability Building

Work with and guide the existing FP&A team:

• 1 Senior Manager (India)
• 1 Data resource
• Coordination with FP&A resource in Australia (currently part-time)
• Build and scale the team over time
• Define roles, responsibilities, and structure as the function evolves

Ideal Candidate Profile:

Must-Haves:

• 8-12 years of experience in FP&A / Strategic Finance

Strong experience in:

• Financial planning & forecasting
• Business finance partnering
• Driving insights for business decisions
• Experience in consumer tech / platform / startup environments

Hands-on exposure to:

• Unit economics
• Business metrics
• Performance management frameworks
• Ability to build and scale functions from scratch
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Preferred:

• CA qualification (strong preference)
• Experience in high-growth or startup environments
• Exposure to IPO readiness / investor reporting
• Prior experience working with cross-functional teams