Senior Finance Consultant Squareroot

The Corporate Institute; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Corporate Institute in Bengaluru (Hybrid) seeks a Senior Finance Consultant to partner with the CEO and leadership team. You will lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for a fast-growing global business, blending strong analytics with commercial insight.

You will own P&L, profitability analysis, and cost optimization while building executive dashboards, supporting fundraising, and driving multi-country financial consolidation with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Must have 6–10 years of experience as a finance partner to leadership teams.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
• Exposure to multi-country financial consolidation and governance.

Responsibilities

• Own budgeting, forecasting, annual operating plans, long-range planning, and scenario modelling.
• Prepare monthly P&L and variance analysis with insights and projections.
• Partner with leaders to improve profitability, pricing, and unit economics.

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Strategic partnering

Financial analysis

KPIs

Cash flow

Consolidation

Cost optimization

M&A support

Finance automation

Job description

SENIOR FINANCE CONSULTANT

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid) direct reports to: CEO

About the Role

We are looking for a highly driven Senior Finance Consultant with 6 to 10 years of experience to serve as a strategic finance partner to the leadership team. This is a high-impact, hands-on role requiring someone who can independently drive financial planning, business partnering, commercial finance, controllership, and operational finance across a fast-growing global business. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical capability with commercial acumen and is comfortable operating with minimal supervision while partnering directly with the CEO.

Key Responsibilities

• – Own budgeting, forecasting, annual operating plans, long-range planning, and scenario modelling.
• – Prepare monthly business and consolidated P&Ls with variance analysis, business insights, and forward-looking projections.
• – Partner with business leaders to improve profitability, pricing, unit economics, and commercial decision-making.
• – Provide analytical insights into business performance by identifying trends, risks, and opportunities, enabling proactive decision-making and improved financial outcomes.
• – Support executive decision-making through business case evaluations, profitability analysis, and strategic recommendations across key commercial and operational initiatives.
• – Develop executive dashboards and KPI reporting to drive business performance.
• – Partner with business leaders to identify and execute cost optimization initiatives across all functions, improving profitability and operational efficiency.
• – Support fundraising, investor reporting, financial due diligence, and board presentations.
• – Drive working capital management, cash flow forecasting, and multi-country financial consolidation.
• – Review commercial contracts and strategic partnerships from a financial and risk perspective
• – Strengthen financial controls, governance, compliance, and audit readiness.
• – Drive finance automation and continuous process improvement initiative.
• – Support strategic investments, acquisitions, and corporate development initiatives.

Nice to Have

• – Experience across multiple industries
• – Exposure to multi-country / multi-entity financial consolidation.
• – 6-8 years of experience and can Independently serve as a strategic finance partner to the leadership team.

What We Offer

• – Direct exposure and access to founders/leadership.
• – Flexible engagement structure
• – Competitive compensation, commensurate with experience.