Head of Finance - Pune, India - Amber

    Amber
    Amber Pune, India

    1 week ago

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    About Amber

    Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think for student housing). Amber helps 80M+ students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process. We are the largest and fastest-growing student housing platform globally, with 1M+ units listed in 6 countries and across 100+ cities. We are growing rapidly and targeting $2B in annual gross bookings value by 2024.

    If you are passionate about making international mobility and living seamless and accessible, then - Join us in building the future of student Housing (We are amongst the fastest growing companies in the Asia Pacific as per Financial Times )

    Role Overview:

    Reporting to the VP of, Finance, this role plays a significant role in ensuring the group achieves its financial objectives. This is a finance role with a high degree of visibility with senior stakeholders, including business and functional heads.

    Roles & responsibilities:

    • Perform efficient monthly, quarterly, and annual closes and deliver reporting within timelines agreed to by leadership
    • Oversees consistent accounting policies, practices, and procedures, adhering to national and local legal standards while remaining knowledgeable of proposed legislation
    • Ensure budgetary control through continuous reviews
    • Run the process of maintaining cost centers and P&Ls for different business verticals
    • Working Capital Management: Maintain control over working capital and manage debt to minimize interest charges, ensuring financial stability.
    • Ensure compliance with taxation, accounting policies, and regulatory regime
    • Preparation of standalone and consolidated financials
    • Lead the process of audits, diligence, etc.
    • Lead and manage collaterals for fundraising initiatives such as debt or equity raise
    • Hold all Management Reporting to key internal stakeholders and be the bedrock of Investor Reporting
    • Propose and drive revenue, margin or cost improvement initiatives along with functional and business heads
    • communicating the findings from the analysis to turn information into something actionable through reports, dashboards, and/or presentations.
    • Drive discussions with business heads to understand the process, and the problem, and then brainstorm solution scenarios for managing accounting.
    • Working closely with various tax, legal, and other advisors
    • Any other Adhoc work assigned to you especially.

    Team Management and Leadership:

    • Managing/mentoring a team of Analysts/Associates and reporting to the Management
    • Driving projects and process improvements
    • Monitoring procedures and controls within the team and reviewing and approving the team's work daily within the stated departmental guideline
    • Prerequisites:
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Strong grasp of various aspects of finance and an analytical ability
    • Commitment and ownership
    • Strong eye for detail and ability to multi-task
    • Ability to meet deadlines
    • High levels of honesty & integrity, the ability to lead a team and self-drive are essential

    Key skills & qualifications:

    • 5-7 years of work experience
    • Deep knowledge of finance, accounting, and taxation
    • Strong stakeholder management capabilities.
    • CA mandatory
    • Knowledge of US taxation and compliances would be having a higher preference