31 Jul
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urbangabru
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Pune
Company Description UrbanGabru is a men's lifestyle brand created to challenge stereotypes around men's fashion and grooming in India. The company aims to build a community of individuals interested in style, grooming, and up-to-date lifestyle choices, while providing products and guidance tailored to their needs. UrbanGabru focuses on helping urban men express confidence, individuality, and a polished appearance. The brand offers a range of grooming and lifestyle solutions designed to make personal care accessible, practical, and aspirational. Team members join a growing organization committed to redefining men's fashion and grooming culture.
Role Description:
The Finance Specialist will be responsible for driving financial planning, profitability analysis, budgeting, cash flow management, and SKU-level financial performance across UrbanGabru's personal care and beauty portfolio. The role will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Product teams to ensure financial discipline and support strategic business decisions.
Role & Responsibilties:
- Prepare and maintain detailed P&L; reports at SKU, platform, brand, and channel level.
- Track gross revenue, discounts, marketplace commissions, logistics cost, payment fees, advertising cost, COGS, packaging cost, returns, damages, and contribution margin.
- Identify profitable and loss-making SKUs across Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Nykaa, Quick Commerce, D2C, offline, and other channels.
- Track margin movement and explain reasons for profit drop or improvement.
- Work with e-commerce, performance marketing, supply chain, and accounts teams to understand cost movement and margin leakage.
- Monitor inventory value, receivables, vendor payments, marketplace settlements, advances, and blocked capital.
- Prepare working capital requirement reports for monthly and quarterly planning.
- Track slow-moving stock, high inventory days, dead stock, near-expiry stock, and inventory ageing from a finance point of view.
- Support purchase and inventory decisions based on sales velocity, stock cover, cash flow, and margin priority.
- Highlight where cash is stuck and recommend corrective action.
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly cash flow statements and projections.
- Track inflows from marketplaces, D2C, offline, quick commerce, and other channels.
- Track outflows including vendor payments, salaries, marketing spends, logistics, marketplace charges, rent, software, and other business expenses.
- Highlight upcoming cash gaps, cash surplus, payment pressure, and working capital needs.
- Coordinate with finance and business teams to align planned expenses with available cash flow.
- Prepare sales, margin, cash flow, inventory, and profitability projections.
- Build financial models for new product launches, channel expansion, marketing spends, pricing changes, and inventory planning.
- Support annual operating plans, monthly forecasts, quarterly reviews, and leadership presentations.
- Prepare what-if scenarios for revenue growth, ad spend increase, price change, margin drop, return increase, or inventory build-up.
- Help leadership understand the financial impact of business decisions before execution.
- Analyze sales, margin, inventory, receivables, ad spends, marketplace settlements, and platform performance data.
- Identify trends, anomalies, risks, and opportunities from large data sets.
- Spot margin leakage due to wrong pricing, high discounts, high returns, logistics cost, platform deductions, or incorrect COGS.
- Create dashboards and reports that are simple for business teams to understand.
- Convert complex financial data into practical action points for leadership and business teams.
Qualifications:
- MBA (Finance) / M.Com or equivalent.
- 5–10 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Commercial Finance, or Business Finance.
- Prior experience in FMCG, Personal Care, Beauty, Cosmetics, Consumer Goods, or D2C brands is highly preferred.
- Strong understanding of P&L; Management, Cash Flow, Budgeting, and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A;).
- Experience in SKU-level profitability analysis and pricing.
- Knowledge of inventory costing, manufacturing costs, and gross margin analysis.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, Power Query, Financial Models).
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, or Zoho Books is preferred.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and business partnering skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
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