Financial Analyst, CMIE (Prowess)

About CMIE

CMIE, or Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt Ltd, is India’s leading economics and business analysis institution, established in 1976. CMIE has a presence across the entire economic and business information food-chain, from primary data collection to analysis and forecasting. It provides services to governments, academia, financial markets, business enterprises, professionals, and media.

Role Overview

This role is designed for an analytically driven expert looking to apply accounting expertise into the development of a robust corporate financial database. You will transform disparate corporate reporting into a highly structured, standardized database, impacting the analytical capabilities of top-tier financial institutions, researchers, and corporates.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze relevant datasets and corporate disclosures to create an effective database supporting real-time use cases and analytical applications.
• Study and analyze financial and non-financial disclosures across multiple accounting frameworks (IGAAP, Ind AS).
• Build and maintain standardized schemas to unify and map divergent reporting practices across accounting formats for banking, financial, and non-financial corporate structures.
• Stay abreast of regulatory disclosure mandates and updated accounting frameworks to align the database schema with evolving corporate disclosure practices.
• Implement stringent mathematical and logical validation rules to ensure flawless database integrity.
• Establish precise data-capturing practices across reporting formats to maintain consistent semantic definitions and preserve line-item integrity.
• Document structured financial metadata, line-item histories, and accounting treatment frameworks to guide database operations and empower clients with analytical context.
• Design, monitor, and continuously refine operational workflows to drive processing efficiency and maintain flawless database standards.
• Leverage expertise in ratio analysis, peer benchmarking, and other evaluation techniques to contribute to the development of refined ratios and algorithms.
• Understand CMIE's financial and non-financial databases on companies and their delivery to various segments of the financial markets.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong understanding of corporate reporting frameworks and disclosure practices across IGAAP and Ind AS Accounting Standards.
• Familiarity with corporate governance guidelines issued by regulators such as the RBI, SEBI, or MCA.
• Ability to interpret financial and non-financial information in the context of varied analytical use-cases.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
• Numeracy, ability to deal with numbers, conduct time-series analysis and basic principles of statistics.
• Skills in R Programming, Advanced Excel, Python or similar systems will be beneficial.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have cleared at least CA Intermediate (both groups) or ACCA Applied Skills (with Financial Reporting).
• Advanced preference for CA Finalists (Group 1 cleared), Qualified CAs, or ACCA Affiliates/Members.