AVP of Finance

We are looking for an experienced AVP of Finance to take ownership of the company's finance function and work closely with the founder and senior leadership team on financial planning, business performance, profitability, cash flows, and strategic decision-making. This is a broad finance leadership role requiring a strong understanding across financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, financial analysis, P& L, cash-flow management, working capital, and financial controls.

A key priority of the role will be to strengthen the company's planning, forecasting, and business performance management capabilities while ensuring strong financial discipline and reporting across the organization. The individual will play a hands-on role in building scalable finance processes, improving financial visibility, and partnering with business leaders as the company grows, with the opportunity to progressively take on broader finance leadership and grow toward a future VP Finance/CFO role.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Financial Planning and Business Performance:

• Lead the company's overall financial planning and performance management activities.
• Own the AOP, annual budgeting, and periodic forecasting process.
• Develop financial models to support business planning and decision-making.
• Prepare revenue, cost, margin, profitability, and cash-flow forecasts.
• Conduct budget vs. actual and forecast vs. actual analysis.
• Identify key financial and operational drivers impacting business performance.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses for important business decisions.
• Establish a structured financial review and performance-management cadence.
• Partner with business teams to improve financial performance and accountability.

Finance Business Partnering:

• Work closely with the founder, CXOs, and business heads on financial and strategic matters.
• Translate business plans and operational metrics into financial outcomes.
• Provide insights on growth, profitability, costs, margins, and resource allocation.
• Evaluate the financial impact of new initiatives, expansion plans, and investments.
• Challenge business assumptions through data and financial analysis.
• Support leadership with commercially sound, data-backed recommendations.

Management Reporting and MIS:

• Own monthly MIS and management reporting for the founder and senior leadership.
• Develop dashboards covering revenue, margins, costs, profitability, cash flow, and key business KPIs.
• Drive monthly performance reviews and explain key variances.
• Identify financial risks, trends, and opportunities.
• Improve the quality, timeliness, and usefulness of management information.
• Convert financial information into clear and actionable business insights.

Financial Analysis and Modelling:

• Build and maintain financial models for business planning, forecasting, profitability analysis, and investment decisions.
• Analyze P& L, unit economics, cost structures, margins, and profitability drivers.
• Develop sensitivity and what-if analyses around key business assumptions.
• Support leadership with financial evaluation of strategic initiatives.
• Provide data-backed analysis for resource allocation and business decisions.

Cash Flow and Working Capital:

• Lead cash-flow forecasting and working-capital planning.
• Monitor receivables, payables, inventory, and overall cash conversion.
• Identify potential liquidity and cash-flow risks.
• Work with business and operations teams to improve working-capital efficiency.
• Support management in planning funding and liquidity requirements.

Financial Reporting and Controls:

• Maintain strong financial discipline across the organization.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting and management information.
• Work closely with the accounting and finance team on financial reporting, reconciliations, and closing processes.
• Maintain a strong understanding of P& L, balance sheet, and cash flows.
• Strengthen financial controls, processes, and governance as the company scales.
• Ensure management has reliable and timely financial information for decision-making.

Capex and Investment Planning:

• Evaluate the financial implications of major investments and capex proposals.
• Prepare investment cases and return analysis.
• Track capex budgets against actual spending.
• Support leadership in prioritizing investments based on financial and strategic returns.

Finance Function Building and Process Improvement:

• Strengthen and build scalable finance processes and operating mechanisms as the company grows.
• Standardize budgeting, forecasting, MIS, and financial reporting processes.
• Improve financial data quality, reporting efficiency, and automation.
• Establish clear KPIs, ownership, and review mechanisms across finance and business teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve finance systems, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure.
• Build processes capable of supporting the company's next stage of growth.

Team Leadership:

• Lead and mentor the existing finance team.
• Progressively build the finance team as the organization scales.
• Hire, develop, and retain strong finance talent.
• Create clear ownership and accountability across planning, reporting, accounting, and analysis.
• Build a finance team that acts as a strategic business partner to the organization.

Requirements:

• 12-15 years of relevant finance experience.
• Strong overall finance background with experience across financial planning, business finance, reporting, and financial analysis.
• Strong experience in AOP, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Hands-on financial modelling and analytical capabilities.
• Strong understanding of P& L, profitability, cost structures, and business drivers.
• Experience in MIS, management reporting, and variance analysis.
• Good understanding of accounting, financial reporting, and controls.
• Exposure to working capital and cash-flow management.
• Experience working with business leaders / CXOs / founders.
• Exposure to CAPEX, investment evaluation, and financial decision-making.
• Experience strengthening finance processes in a growing organization.
• Ability to operate across both strategic and operational aspects of finance.
• Strong communication, commercial thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable working in a lean, fast-growing, and founder-led environment.
• Comfortable working with financial data, dashboards, and reporting tools.
• Ideal Candidate Profile
• The ideal candidate is a well-rounded finance leader who can operate across different aspects of the finance function while taking strong ownership of business performance and financial planning.

They should:

• Have broad exposure across finance, financial planning, reporting, and business partnering.
• Be strong in AOP, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Have a sound understanding of accounting, financial reporting, and controls.
• Be capable of independently building financial models, forecasts, and business cases.
• Have experience partnering with founders, CXOs, and business heads.
• Understand how operational metrics translate into financial performance.
• Have strong MIS and management-reporting capabilities.
• Understand profitability, cash flows, working capital, and resource allocation.
• Be commercially oriented and comfortable challenging business assumptions.
• Have experience improving finance processes and building teams during growth.
• Be hands-on enough to operate in a lean environment while also building scalable systems.
• Have the maturity and ambition to gradually take ownership of the broader finance function.