Job Opportunity for Finance Manager 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 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. You will also ensure that the reports contribute to business insights and decision-making
• partner with accounting teams to ensure timely and accurate financials at quarter/ year end

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
• 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

We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply.