Senior Manager - FP&A

Licious; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Licious in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Chartered Accountant/MBA for FP&A leadership across budgeting, forecasting, and performance analytics. You will lead annual budgets, build financial models, develop dashboards, and partner with tech to optimize ERP and AI-powered tools.

The role requires 7-9 years of post-qualification experience and strong Excel, PowerPoint, and communication skills. You will drive cost optimization, variance analysis, and management reporting, presenting insights to

Qualifications

• CA or MBA with 7-9 years post-qualification.
• Strong interest in financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA, Tableau, and Power BI.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in financial data.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with financial systems and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting process with department heads.
• Drive FP&A and cross-functional alignment.
• Develop financial models and dashboards.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and profitability improvements.
• Collaborate with technology teams to optimize ERP and financial tools.
• Perform variance analysis and root-cause investigations.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Excel & PowerPoint

Communication skills

Tableau

Power BI

Education

CA / MBA

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

We are Licious and we are a Bengaluru based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, our founders, foodies and friends. We pride ourselves on being India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand operating in 20 cities across the country delighting over 32 lac customers with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood!

Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on…

What makes the role meaty?

• Leading the annual budgeting process, working with department heads to develop and consolidate budgets.
• To Leverage past experience in FP&A and business partnering to drive cross-functional alignment between diverse functions and business units
• Breaking down complex business dynamics with structured analysis, identify opportunities for growth and deliver recommendations.
• Collaborating with the technology team to implement and optimize financial systems (e.g., ERP software, AI-powered financial tools).
• Identifying opportunities for process automation and work to enhance financial system capabilities.
• Working with business leaders to review key cost items and arrive at strategy and metrics to improve profitability
• Working closely with controllership team to review the cost data and work collaboratively to arrive at the business analytics
• Conducting variance analysis between actual and budgeted financial performance, identifying key trends and discrepancies and work with stakeholders to fix these at the root cause
• Developing financial models to analyze business performance and make data-driven recommendations.
• Leading the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and presentations
• Collecting and analyze financial data to identify cost-saving opportunities and business performance improvements.
• Leading the creation and publishing of management dashboards and financial KPIs to track business performance.
• Leading the preparation of financial presentations for internal stakeholders.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate financial data reporting and analysis.
• Providing support in ad-hoc financial analysis and projects as required.
• Participating in the evaluation of investment opportunities and business cases.

We hope that you…

• Are a Chartered Accountant /MBA with 7-9 years of post qualification.
• Have Strong interest in financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Have Proficiency in Microsoft Excel / MS power point.
• Have basic understanding of accounting principles and financial statements.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in handling financial data.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Hands on experience with financial analysis / reporting tools like SAP S/4 HANA, Tableau and Power BI