Senior Associate, Business Finance

Overview

Senior Associate – Business Finance supporting the Business Finance team with revenue operations, planning cycles, and commercial decision-making for the unit, in a fast-paced ad-tech environment.

What you'll do

• Act as a trusted finance partner for the business, working closely with product, revenue, and operations teams.
• Support planning cycles: prepare monthly accruals, maintain revenue files, and build/update revenue and cost forecasts.
• Analyze financial trends, identify variances, and recommend actionable interventions.
• Review cost and revenue contracts to identify key commercial terms, flag risks, and suggest improvements.
• Evaluate deal structures: prepare deal-level P&L templates, run scenario analyses, and check adherence to pricing/margin guidelines.
• Own periodic reconciliations between records, contracts, and actuals.
• Use AI assistants (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) to automate reporting, validate data, and build BI dashboards (Power BI/Tableau) for real-time KPI visibility.
• Identify manual finance workflows and automate them using no-code/low-code tools (e.g., Power Automate).
• Support annual planning with data packs, models, and market research; document workflows for scale.

What you'll need

• CA qualified, or MBA (Finance) from a reputed Tier 1 institute.
• 2–3 years of experience in Business Finance, FP&A, or commercial finance.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills; comfort with large datasets.
• Familiarity with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and AI assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot, Notion AI).
• Sharp analytical thinking with strong attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication; able to summarize findings crisply.
• Proactive, curious, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Exposure to SAP/Oracle/Anaplan or SQL.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.