Zepto - Director - Business Finance (8-12 yrs)

Our Story

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers groceries in 10 minutes flat through an optimized network of dark stores that we're building across the country! We're currently delivering in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai. We're incredibly well-funded, and our investors include Y-Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and more! We've also built out one of the best startup teams in India, with senior executives from Flipkart, Amazon and institutions like Stanford, ISB, IIM, and IIT.

Your Role

This role is responsible for providing strategic financial insights and leading financial planning and analysis activities. This role will work closely with senior management to drive financial performance, support business decision-making, and ensure the financial health of the organization. Additionally, the role will involve collaborating with various stakeholders including senior business leaders to optimize financial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial Planning & Analysis (MOP, QOP & AOP):

- Lead the annual budgeting, forecasting, and long term financial planning processes.

- Provide financial insights and recommendations to support strategic decision making.

- Develop financial models and analyses to support growth initiatives, cost optimization, and profitability improvements.

- Work with Cross functional teams to tie end to end financial planning.

2. Business Partnering:

- Act as a strategic partner to business units, providing financial guidance, support & Co-own Business targets.

- Building depth business operations and driving growth & Profitability.

- Collaborate with cross functional teams, including sellside, pricing and category team, to ensure alignment of financial goals with business objectives.

- Present financial results and business insights to senior leadership and stakeholders.

3. Category Management:

- Develop financial strategies to support inventory management, procurement, and supplier negotiations.

- Work closely with supply chain and category teams to analyze and optimize costs across the supply chain.

- Monitor and report on key metrics related to category profitability through pricing, margins and supply chain efficiency

- Actively working with Business on optimizing and solving for Working Capital.

4. Team Leadership:

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of finance professionals.

- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and collaboration within the finance team.

What We're Looking For:

- CA or MBA with relevant experience of 8 years +

- Strong experience in the business finance domain including budgeting, ROI, variance analysis, stakeholder & team management.

- Demonstrated experience in revenue planning, pricing, supply chain finance and category management.

- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, with a keen eye for detail.

- Strong business acumen and the ability to translate financial data into actionable business insights.

- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

- Leadership and team management

- Strategic thinking and business partnering