Senior Manager - Business Finance

Urban Company; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Urban Company in Gurugram seeks a seasoned finance professional to own overall business understanding and planning. You will develop financial plans with rigorous bottom-up analysis, review variances, and communicate insights to stakeholders for timely decision making.

Responsibilities include partnering for growth, driving supply chain finance, pricing reviews, inventory oversight, and driving efficiency through standardization and automation while maintaining a data-driven mindset.

Qualifications

• Qualified CA with 5–7 years of Industry/large FMCGs in similar roles.
• Strong analytical skills and a data driven decision making mentality.
• Strong business acumen to understand the business requirements
• Hustle and get things done attitude

Responsibilities

• Overall business understanding and analysis: Develop financial plans with Bottom-up rigor across teams and review plan vs actual regularly.
• Partnering for growth: Build actionable plans with business and cross-functional teams for new initiatives.
• Supply chain finance: Review pricing across channels and oversee inventory, GRN, receivables reconciliation.
• Drive efficiency and day-to-day activities: Standardization, automation projects, ad hoc analysis for decisions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data-driven mindset

Business acumen

Proactive attitude

Education

CA - Chartered Accountant

Job description

Urban Company is a technology platform offering customers a variety of services at home. Customers use our platform to book services such as beauty treatments, haircuts, massage therapy, cleaning, plumbing, carpentry, appliance repair, painting, etc., all delivered in the comfort of their home and at a time of their choosing. We promise our customers a high-quality, standardized, and reliable service experience. To fulfill this promise, we work closely with our hand-picked service partners, enabling them with technology, training, products, tools, financing, insurance, and brand, helping them succeed and deliver on this promise.

Urban Company started as UrbanClap in November 2014, when its founders, Abhiraj, Raghav, and Varun, realized that the home services industry was predominantly unorganized, fragmented, and offline. Customers found it challenging to avail quality services conveniently, and service professionals were struggling to make ends meet, having to rely upon several

middlemen, contractors, and local aggregators. The founders felt that the industry was ripe for disruption, and launched Urban Company, with three key principles in mind -

1. Customer love: Build a platform that offers truly delightful and differentiated services

2. Partner empowerment: Build a deep, full-stack partnership with service partners,

helping improve their earnings and overall livelihood

3. Technology first: Bring innovation and technology to an age-old industry

About the Role

Overall business understanding and analysis:

• Develop financial plans along with various Business and technology teams, with rigor on Bottom’s up approach.
• Review the plan vs actual on a regular basis; in depth analysis of variance and communicating the same proactively creating right visibility and enabling actionable planning.
• Continuous tracking of key financials and business metrics, accurate reporting and circulating the same to relevant stakeholders at requisite time intervals

Partnering for growth :

• Develop deep understanding of business drivers and leverage that to create views for creating actionable plans
• Partnering with respective business and cross functional teams for new business initiatives.
• Do scenario analysis and develop business plans on product enhancement or business initiatives.

Supply chain finance :

• Review product pricing across channels along with COGS to drive the right margin structure for the business.
• Oversight over inventory and supply chain functions like timely GRN, receivables reconciliation, TOTs with channel partners.

Drive efficiency and other day to day activities :

• Participate & Drive standardization & automation projects for process efficiency.
• Handle ad hoc requests and problem solving with a short turnaround time and supplement such requests with appropriate analysis and comments to support decision making.
• Acts as a running source of truth for numbers – key metrics and performance drivers.

Who are we looking for :

1. A CA with 5-7 years of work experience in Industry/large FMCGs in similar roles.

2. Strong analytical skills and a data driven decision making mentality.

3. Strong business acumen to understand the business requirements

4. Hustle and get things done attitude

Folks you will work with:

We understand that the people you work with and learn from is the single most important determinant of how much you enjoy working at a place. In fact, this defines the culture in many ways. Here is a list of UC folks you can expect to work with and collaborate with:

1. Abhay Mathur (Chief Finance Officer)

2. Ashish Bhansal (SVP, Finance)

3. Rohan Jindal (Director, Business Finance)

At Urban Company we are committed to providing equal and fair opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We endeavor to maintain a work environment free from harassment based on age, colour, physical ability, marital status, parental status, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.