Senior Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

About Licious:

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.

- 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 or MBA with 7 - 9 years of post qualification experience.

- Have strong interest in financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.

- Have proficiency in Microsoft Excel and MS PowerPoint.

- 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 and reporting tools like SAP S/4 HANA, Tableau and Power BI.