Business Finance

About udaan:

udaan is a B2B ecommerce platform that brings traders, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and manufacturers in India on to a single platform. Our goal is to make ‘doing business’ easy in India & make B2B commerce convenient and efficient.

udaan Capital is the NBFC arm of Udaan & offers credit services to buyers and sellers on and off udaan’s B2B ecommerce platform to grow their business further. This space is largely untapped with less than 10% of MSMEs having access to working capital loans from financial institutions. In this way, udaan is uniquely positioned to formalize &scale trade credit.

Learn more about us: https://udaan.com/

Role description

Function: Credit

Sub Function: FP&A

Location: Bangalore Reports to: FP&A Lead – Credit Business

Team Composition: Individual Contributor

Job Responsibilities

Work with the FP&A Lead to develop strategy for the Credit business and foster a deep understanding of the numerous variables driving business and leverage those to create multiple views for creating actionable plans for the business teams.

Analyses and identify red flags in the overall financial and operational performance, and propose ways to bridge them (Learning, Process & other Initiatives).

Own analytics initiatives required to solve problem areas and proactively leverage data and insights to inform decision making, while proactively exploring avenues for deployment of analytics solutions.

Leverage existing data from various aspects of the business as well as external and clickstream data to identify, translate and publish insights to a cross-functional group of stakeholders.

Own the execution of plans made from analytical exercises to ensure findings are actioned upon and continuous feedback is collected and utilized to fine-tune the approach.

Bring closure with accurate reconciliation between Management MIS, Org P&L and Operational Dashboards while working closely with the financial operations team.

Lead/ participate and actively drive new initiatives and pilot standardization, automation projects with the relevant Product/ Tech teams for process improvement and execution efficiency

Functional Competencies

Problem solving: The role needs the individual to be able to solve for a given business problem in sometimes an ambiguous state and with multiple data streams impacting decision making.

Data driven/ analytical: The role requires the individual to be comfortable in processing and analysing volume of multiple data streams to enable meeting business targets.

Collaborative skills: This role requires a lot of cross[1]functional working and engagement with senior leaders to create success. S/he should be able to seamlessly navigate these relationship dynamics in a high growth, young, agile business environment.

Results orientation: The role is required to deliver on daily numbers, short-term goals and long-term milestones set by business and efficacy.

Meeting these milestones would be critical to create success.

Candidate Profile

Must have 2 to 5 years of demonstrated experience of working in process oriented and high-quality work environments.

Experience in start-up/ E-Commerce preferred.

Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.

Strong business and commercial acumen.

Excellent Excel and SQL knowledge and, ability to navigate large volumes of data. Knowledge of R/Python will be an added advantage.

Strong Financial modelling and Data Visualization skills.

Strong communication, analytical and inter-personal skills.

Knowledge of financial statements will be an added advantage