Manager, Business Finance

About the Role

This is a finance role with high ownership and visibility, focused on partnering with business and ops teams for P&L management, identifying and delivering cost savings, and periodic reporting for management review.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding the Business & Measuring Costs:
• Develop a deep understanding of the Instamart business, particularly the FnV supply chain and other organizational functions.
• Gain a clear understanding of cost drivers and how cost structure is impacted by growth.
• Build and maintain plans for logistics cost, manpower cost, packaging cost, and warehouse losses.
• Track actuals against plan, hold business/ops teams accountable for variances, and control cost numbers.
• Sizing and Landing Cost Savings:
• Identify and size cost-saving opportunities across various owned P&L line items (e.g., first- and middle-mile logistics, manpower).
• Secure cross-functional alignment for collaborative delivery of cost-saving initiatives.
• Create processes for new initiatives and improve existing ones with a focus on governance and cost leakage.
• Validate savings against the P&L and hold business teams accountable for variances.
• Planning, Reporting, MIS and Automation:
• Support the preparation of the annual plan and monthly/quarterly forecasts/plans for F&V supply chain cost and wastage using a bottom-up approach.
• Conduct weekly reviews with business stakeholders and assist with ad-hoc analysis on various projects.
• Assist controllership at month-end with accruals, wastage provisions, and vendor claims.
• Support periodic physical verification and stock reconciliation with supply chain and ops, and investigate variances.
• Prepare review packs with AI-led automations for stakeholder consumption.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong Excel/spreadsheet skills and clean data structuring.
• Comfort with large and messy data, with a habit of reconciling before concluding.
• Sufficient SQL knowledge.
• Comfort with AI (mainly Claude) for data pulling and understanding internal data structures.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams.
• Self-starter with the ability to take ownership of deliverables with minimal direction.
• Ability to develop new approaches to business problems.
• Continuous improvement attitude and fast learning ability.

Qualifications

• CA or an MBA in Finance.
• Up to two years of experience.

Also Useful

• Exposure to quick commerce, retail, FMCG, agri, or foodtech.
• Familiarity with mandi or APMC sourcing and supply chain operations.
• Previous experience as a business finance partner.