Portfolio Manager

Intellectual Capital HR Consulting Pvt. Ltd.; Lucknow; In loco; INR 2.500.000 - 4.500.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Intellectual Capital HR Consulting Pvt. Ltd. seeks a experienced Portfolio Manager to lead MIS reporting, cash runway management, and due diligence for portfolio companies.

You will partner with founders and investors to ensure timely dashboards, variance analysis, and readiness for funding rounds. The role requires strong financial acumen, IFRS/GAAP knowledge and hands-on experience with consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, and capital allocation decisions.

Competenze

• Financial due diligence expertise for investments and transactions.
• Strong understanding of Indian GAAP/IFRS and statutory filings.
• Portfolio reporting, dashboards, and variance analysis expertise.
• Analytical problem-solving to synthesize financial data into actionable insights.

Mansioni

• Lead monthly/quarterly MIS reporting for portfolio companies.
• Monitor cash burn, runway, and working capital; advise on fundraising timing.
• Prepare investor-ready packs and dashboards for IC updates.
• Act as Finance Partner to founders; implement budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Support financial models and valuation analyses for investments and exits.

Conoscenze

Financial due diligence

Accounting & compliance

Portfolio reporting

Analytical problem solving

Formazione

Chartered Accountant

Descrizione del lavoro

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

(List the accountabilities/duties associated with the job and the major activities associated with each accountability. When accountabilities are complete, try if possible to estimate the relative % of time spent on these accountabilities.)

Sr No

Responsibilities

Expected Time %

1

Own monthly and quarterly financial reporting for all portfolio companies.

Establish standardized monthly and quarterly reporting templates across all portfolio companies; deliver consolidated dashboards and investor packs with zero slippage.

Actively engage with Portfolio Companies for the data requirements and prepare on a monthly basis:

1. Consolidated performance dashboards,
2. Variance analysis, and
3. Investor ready pack(s)

Ensure timely delivery of MIS and KPI tracking for monthly review and quarterly IC updates. Pro-actively escape red flags to the HOD/Investment Team.

40%

2

Monitor cash runway, burn rates, and working capital across portfolio companies; advise on cash prioritization, intercompany arrangements, and fundraising timing/size.

• Implement a system to track burn rates and runway for each company, updated monthly.
• Provide proactive alerts to founders and investors when runway falls below 12-months.
• Recommend corrective actions (expense controls, fundraising timelines) to extend runway.

15%

3

Lead preparations for Portfolio Annual Day including coordination with Investors, Internal Stakeholders, Portfolio Companies and Vendors.

Work with External Invitees, Leadership, Portfolio invitees, liaise with teams to ensure that the Event is conducted seamlessly.

15%

4

Review internal control for portfolio companies; up to date knowledge of findings from external audits, statutory filings and tax compliance primarily where client's interests are involved. Ensure portfolio companies are DD-ready for future rounds of funding.

10%

5

• Act as the Finance Partner to founders – implement budgeting and forecasting processes, mentor finance leads, and support diligence for strategic initiatives or fundraising.
• Work with CFOs/finance leads to elevate finance function maturity and reporting discipline.
• Introduce KPI tracking frameworks tailored to each company’s growth stage.

10%

6

Support the Investment team to build and maintain financial models and valuation frameworks (scenario analysis, cap table impact) to support mark to market, follow-on investment decisions, and exit planning; stress test assumptions and present clear downside/upside cases.

10%

Total

100%

MAJOR CHALLENGES

(Describe the major challenges you face on an on-going basis in carrying out your job).

Stakeholder alignment

— Acting as a bridge between investors and founders requires strong communication skills to manage expectations, resolve conflicts, and maintain trust.

Balancing oversight with support

— The role demands both enforcing discipline and enabling founders, which can be challenging when portfolio companies resist external financial oversight.

Data reliability and timeliness

— Ensuring accurate, timely financial data from founders and small finance teams can be difficult, especially when companies prioritize growth over compliance.

Fragmented financial maturity across portfolio companies

— Earlystage ventures often lack robust finance teams or systems, requiring the Portfolio Manager to standardize reporting and controls across diverse setups.

DECISIONS

(Mention the key decisions taken by job holder at his end and the decisions for which the job holder goes to superior with options and recommendations or seek approval).

Decisions made by job holder

Portfolio reporting and analysis — Prepare monthly/quarterly dashboards, variance analysis, and performance commentary for circulation to stakeholders.

Operational finance interventions — Recommend process improvements (budgeting, forecasting, internal controls) to portfolio company finance teams where sought.

Cash monitoring — Track burn rates, working capital, and runway; suggest corrective measures (e.g., expense controls) within agreed thresholds.

Recommendations to or approval by superior

Capital allocation — Present scenarios for follow-on investments, bridge funding with risk/return analysis.

Major governance interventions — Seek approval before recommending significant changes, new audit requirements, or key compliance actions.

Strategic portfolio shifts — Provide options on rebalancing exposure across sectors, geographies, or stages, and seek investment committee endorsement.

INTERACTIONS

(Describe the job roles that you interact with inside or outside the company to enable you to meet your accountabilities and the key expectations from these interactions. Also mention purpose).

Internal Interactions

Roles you need to interact with inside the organization to enable success in your day to day work

Investment Committee – Support the President, Deal Captains and Head of Portfolio Management to prepare and present the quarterly updates to the Investment Committee.

President – Private Equity, Deal Captains and Head of Portfolio Management - Provide portfolio performance updates, MIS insights, and risk assessments.

Analysts / Associates (if any) - Delegate data collection, model updates, and research tasks

External Interactions

Roles you need to interact with outside the organization to enable success in your day to day work

Founders & CFOs/Finance Leads of Portfolio Companies - Partner on MIS reporting, cash runway management, and diligence readiness.

DIMENSIONS

(List the significant numerical data which will reflect the scope and scale of activities concerning this job).

Financial Dimensions

(These should be quantifiable numerical amounts like annual budgets, project costs, annual revenue, purchase value, no of transactions etc.)

Cash runway monitoring: Track monthly burn rates of each company, ensuring visibility on 12–18 months runway.

Funding Support: Assist the portfolio companies with followon funding rounds per year, including due diligence and valuation updates.

Valuation updates: Work with the Investment team to conduct half yearly marktomarket assessments across all portfolio companies.

Other Dimensions

(Indication of some of the significant volumes associated with the job like number in team/ staff handled etc.). -

Founder/Team interaction: Directly collaborate with founders and finance leads of all portfolio companies; internally, report to Managing Partner/CIO and coordinate with fund finance team (2–3 staff). Demonstrate maturity and flexibility in dealing with different leadership styles that will be exhibited by different Founders and internal stakeholders.

External coordination: Liaise with auditors, tax advisors, and legal counsel across portfolio companies (typically 7–10 external engagements annually).

Reporting cadence: Deliver monthly portfolio dashboards and quarterly investor reports; present 4 formal portfolio reviews per year to the investment committee.

Process implementation: Standardize financial processes across portfolio companies, each with varying maturity levels, requiring ongoing interventions in budgeting, forecasting, and compliance.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

(State the minimum acceptable proficiency for this job which best indicates the education and/or experience requirements of this job and not the incumbent).

Educational Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant

Functional Skills & Behavioral Skills

• Financial due diligence expertise — Strong grounding in transaction DD, redflag identification, and remediation, gained from Big6 experience.
• Accounting and compliance knowledge — Strong understanding of Indian GAAP/IFRS, statutory filings, tax compliance, and audit processes.
• Portfolio reporting — Ability to design and deliver consolidated dashboards, variance analysis, and investorready packs.
• Analytical problemsolving — Capacity to synthesize complex financial data into actionable insights for founders and investors

Relevant and total years of Experience

• Total experience of 6+ years of which ~4 years of Big-6 financial due diligence experience.