Job Opportunity for Associate Manager/Manager, Finance Analyst at The Nudge Institute in Bengaluru

About The/Nudge:

The/Nudge is an action institute working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime. We partner with governments, markets, and civil society to build resilient livelihoods for all.  We are a collective of some of India’s best leaders and entrepreneurs from across the industry, academia, government, and development sectors, and our work is organized across three impact streams:

• Centre for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (CSDE): enables underprivileged youth to lead flourishing lives
• Centre for Rural Development (CRD): enables rural families to come out of extreme poverty
• Centre for Social Innovation (CSI): nudges top talent to solve India’s biggest challenges

At The/Nudge, you will be a part of the Finance team helping to build and manage an effective and efficient organization with a core functional focus on the financial performance of the organization. We’re looking for someone who can help build robust financial processes from a strategic perspective as the organization steps into the next level of growth.

At The/Nudge you will:

• drive strategic and operational budgeting, forecasting, and monitoring processes across the organization 
• manage expense allocations across the programs and donor projects. Ensure error-free and timely expense reporting to the partner management team.
• own end to end financials of the donor grant cycle – from budgeting to forecasts to utilization reporting
• prepare project level expense projections in tandem with the respective internal stakeholders
• lead development and provision of routine and ad-hoc analytic reports to the senior management team and to the respective program leads
• run variance analysis and provide insights to the respective program/function leads. Ensure reports contribute to business insights and decision-making.

Apply if you have:

• a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Commerce, or related fields. MBA or CA qualification would be preferred but not mandatory
• an overall work experience of 5 to 8 years with 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in Business Finance, Accounting, Analytics, or Strategy & Operations
• the willingness to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment 
• strong analytical skills and are detail-oriented
• high proficiency in MS Excel/Google Sheets
• comfort in working with diverse stakeholder groups 
• have strong written and verbal communication skills
• the comfort of working with some degree of ambiguity in the absence of perfect information

Would be great if you have:

• working knowledge of Tally ERP & Power BI