Manager, Business Finance

About the Role

This is a finance role with high ownership and visibility, built around three major areas:

• Partnering with business and ops teams to close P&L plans and track actuals.
• Identifying cost-saving opportunities and working with business teams to deliver initiatives.
• Periodic reporting for management review to track progress against business guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the business deeply and measure supply chain cost and loss.
• Developing a deep understanding of the Instamart business, especially the FnV supply chain, and other functions.
• Having a clear understanding of the drivers of cost and how cost structure is impacted with growth.
• Build and maintain plans for logistics cost, manpower cost, packaging cost, and warehouse losses.
• Track actuals against plan, keep business/ops teams accountable for variances, and control cost numbers.
• Size and land cost savings.
• Size cost-saving opportunities with business teams in owned P&L line items (e.g., first- and middle-mile logistics, manpower) and take cross-functional alignments from stakeholders for collaborative delivery.
• Creating processes for new initiatives and improving existing ones with focus on governance & cost leakage.
• Validate savings after the fact against the P&L and keep business teams accountable for variances.
• Planning, reporting, MIS, and automation.
• Support the preparation of annual plan and monthly/quarterly forecast/plan for F&V supply chain cost and wastage on a bottom-up approach.
• Run weekly reviews with business stakeholders and assist with ad-hoc analysis on various projects.
• Help controllership at month-end with accruals, wastage provisions, and vendor claims.
• Support periodic physical verification and stock reconciliation with supply chain and ops, and follow variances through to an explanation.
• Prepare review packs with AI led automations for consumption across stakeholders.

Requirements & Tech Stack

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

Qualifications

• CA or an MBA in finance.
• Up to two years of experience.
• Also useful:
• Any 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 is desired.

Work Location: Bangalore