CynLr - Business Finance Team (3-12 yrs)

Business Finance Team

About Role:

"Money is Metrics"

- For an actively growing org, money is an investment.

- Building financial models and management systems that maximize the conversion of expenses into investments, especially whether an endeavour was an expense or a fruitful investment is known only in "hindsight".

- While modelling sales is tangible, the key is in the ability to model & metricize intangible value that's created within the org in monetary terms - be it in IP, Development, Branding or Operations, and weave it into the price of a unit sale.

- Essentially, mapping the chain-reaction/ butterfly effect of value across business functions within the Org so that we can "Automate building of an Org, not just operating it".

- This will be a team of 3 prominent functions augmented by accounting & operations.

There are 3 core functions and if your skills match any One category below, please apply.

Financial Modelling (This is a design role not just FP&A):

- Model the Operations of the organization into Product Pricing and derive Revenue goals.

- Derive and model investment projections translating back from the Revenue goals, by mapping the functioning of each department, its current capacity, nature & complexity of its operation & its efficiency, by working with the respective department heads.

- Mapping value movement across departments and designing financial indicators for cost centres

- Build Indicators of Performance into all business functions, provide Analysis of Performance & design a Credit System for budget requisitions.

- Participate and assist in deriving the KPI across business functions & Model the Budgets, Compensation & Incentivization schemes

- Provide Financial Performance assessments for Appraisal and Budget approvals.

- For variable pay - design schemes for commissions, including the Non-sales business functions by interlinking the cross-departmental performance metrics

- Train and onboard non-financial departmental heads into Cost & Budget oriented thinking.

Financial Management:

- Cross border banking, currency movement & Financial management - currency & reserve management, Treasury management, Holding currency management to tame value loss due to depreciation

- International Banking & Bank Relationships, Instruments & Products of Banks for expenses

- Investment Modelling & Management - Model & manage financing options including debt financing & equity financing and derive a valuation

- ESOP management & shareholder Management - Investor reporting, financial reports.

- Financial Audits & Risk Management

- Cash efficiency analysis & Financial Prudence.

- Payments and remittance processing workflow setup.

- Finance & Operations Workflow & toolchain automation - SAP to Salesforce to Internal project management to Corporate banking - all toolchain automation.

- From pipeline projection for supply chain stocking to Order reception, Invoicing, remittances and payments processing - one continuum of interconnected tools.

Corporate Structuring + Compliance (Impact of law on finance):

- International structuring & modelling hold-co control for legal, expense and taxation efficiency, along with shareholder convenience.

- Cross-border value distribution across branches, Asset distributions, Customs, material movement, purchases & assets between subsidiaries in different countries.

- Cross border taxation, international accounting.

- Cross-border Financial Regulations, methods of Money Movement between subsidiaries.

- Factoring in International Labor Law, Work Visa and resource movement

- Representing business to the legal - empathizing with the legal

Good to have experience and practice with:

All Roles:

- Business Insight, Excel proficiency, Accounting Principles, P&L sheet preparation, valuation report making, Financial report making, Financial Audit, Company Secretary coordination

Financial Modelling:

- Designed if not supported in Performance appraisals, budget allocation & approval, commission computation, and modelling revenue targets.

- Business Analysis & Financial Analysis - Strong with Financial research.

- Experienced heavy International Hardware RnD setups and its Product Lifecycles

Financial management:

- Banking products & Handling International transactions, Investment Vehicles

- International Taxation and material/assets movements across subsidiaries

- Engaged with RBI, handled appeals & intimations and other country Fiduciary bodies is a great plus

- Handling investments & investor relationships is a plus

Compensation Structure:

- Base: will be based on the number of skillset requirements met & indicative capability to take ownership of responsibilities, initiatives taken & size of budget managed into earnings for the company.

- Variables: Tied to individual performance delivery, team and toolchain setup and derisking the role through process & documentation setups

- Bonuses: Tied to Initiative taken within CynLr, delivering outcomes leading to sustainable positive impact to the org (cost-saving, opportunity creation, value increase etc.)

About CynLr:

- CynLr is a VC-funded fundamental technology startup, building both HW & SW Platform that enables industrial robots specifically to perceive, learn and manipulate even unfamiliar objects in the factory floor to your household (to start with) - we narrow this and call it Visual Object Intelligence.

- Essentially, we hope to build the missing block that is currently limiting robots from replacing the use of human hands in every task performed -Eventually targeting to create a digital marketplace for recipes of Tasks and Objects.

- A 60-member team distributed across Switzerland, India & US - requiring to manage 400+ supply chain partners spread across 16 countries, with value addition & manufacturing across multiple countries - for a company of such small size, we need to deal with "every variety of business complexity" that a large MNC goes through - just not the scale and volumes yet.