Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Key Responsibilities:
- Key Metrics & Unit Economics: Own the definition, integrity and reporting of the core business KPIs contribution margin per litre / per delivery / per order, cost-to-serve, gross margin, route and rider utilisation, throughput and realisation. Be the single source of truth for how the business is actually doing.
- FP&A Planning & Forecasting: Own the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), budgets and rolling forecasts. Build driver-based models that tie operating drivers (volumes, sites, riders, pricing) to financial outcomes, and keep the forecast honest as reality changes.
- Business Partnering (challenge, dont just report): Act as a first-principles, sceptical partner to Ops, Sales and Growth. Pressure-test business cases, question spend and pricing, and say no or prove it when the numbers dont hold constructively and with evidence.
- P&L Ownership & Profitability: Own segment-, client- and city-level P&Ls. Explain what is genuinely driving margin (and margin leakage), flag risks early, and drive actions that improve contribution and unit economics.
- MIS, Dashboards & Insight: Build management dashboards and actuals-vs-plan-vs-forecast variance analysis with clear, decision-ready narratives insight and recommendations, not just tables of numbers.

- Decision Support & Business Cases: Evaluate pricing decisions, new client contracts, city/route expansion and capex-vs-opex trade-offs; quantify ROI, payback and downside so leadership can decide with eyes open.
- Fundraising & Investor Reporting: Support board and investor MIS, metric packs and data-room requests; ensure every number stands up to investor and diligence scrutiny.
- Working Capital & Cash Insight: Partner on working-capital-heavy fuel procurement, receivables and cash-conversion cycles; track burn, runway and cash efficiency and surface levers to improve them.
Qualifications & Experience:
- CA / MBA (Finance) / CFA with 1- 3 years in FP&A, business finance, investment banking, consulting or startup finance.
- Prior high-growth startup experience preferred marketplace, logistics, quick-commerce, mobility or energy a strong plus.
- Comfort working hands-on with large operational datasets to build metrics from the ground up.
Key Skills:
- Strong FP&A and financial-modelling skills driver-based P&Ls, unit economics and scenario analysis.
- A sceptical, first-principles mindset willing to dig, challenge the business and be the truth-teller on numbers.
- Fluency in translating operating metrics into financial outcomes (and back again).
- Advanced Excel; SQL and BI tools (Power BI / Tableau / Metabase) a strong advantage.
- Storytelling with data and strong stakeholder management with commercial and operations leaders.
- High ownership and comfort operating amid ambiguity and speed.