Business Finance Partner

The Business Finance Partner will collaborate closely with various departments
to deliver financial analysis, strategic planning, and support for business
decisions. This role involves interpreting financial data, forecasting,
budgeting, and providing actionable recommendations to optimize financial
performance and achieve business objectives.

Your day-today tasks will include:

Financial Analysis and Planning-

• Conduct detailed financial analysis and interpret financial results.
• Prepare and present financial reports, including variance analysis, KPIs,
  and performance metrics.
• Monitor and analyse financial trends, identifying risks and opportunities.

Budgeting and forecasting-

• Lead the budgeting process, working with departmental heads to develop
  annual budgets.
• Create financial forecasts and models to predict future financial
  performance.
• Track and report on actual vs. budget performance, providing insights and
  recommendations.

Strategic Support-

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Act as a trusted advisor to department heads, providing financial expertise
  and guidance.
• Facilitate effective communication between finance and other business units.

Project Management-

• Support financial aspects of key projects and initiatives.
• Ensure financial considerations are integrated into project planning and
  execution.
• Track project costs, benefits, and financial outcomes.

Compliance and Risk Management-

• Ensure compliance with financial regulations, standards, and internal
  policies
• Identify and mitigate financial risks, developing strategies to address them
• Conduct financial audits and ensure accurate financial reporting

What will help you succeed in the role:

Knowledge you need:

• Launching new brands on platform.
• Risk assessment.
• Proactively manage and nurture vendor relationships.
• Measure vendor performance.
• Managing PL, terms of business and models, buying cost, price and quality
  benchmarking and portfolio management for the brands.

Required Skills:

• Efficient Negotiation Skills.
• Vendor/Brands onboarding and choosing the right vendors for your business.
• Building selection, Pricing and Terms negotiation.
• PL and OTB Management.

Education Work Experience:

• Full-Time MBA with 3+ years of experience.
• Experience as a Sales Manager / Vendor Manager / Category Manager / Account
  Manager role.
• Launched new brands on platforms.
• Ideal candidate worked in Ecommerce/Retail/FMCG background.

Abilities that will help you shine:

• To walk in our customers shoes and grow our vendor partners business by
  anticipating their unexpressed needs
• To anticipate roadblocks and seek out solutions before they occur
• To keep experimenting and running pilot programs to evaluate what works best
• To make decisions based on data combined with judgement and intuition
• To strive for continuous improvement
• To be action oriented
• To be vocally self-critical in order to arrive at better solutions.