Position: Finance Associate

Location: Pune

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Experience Required: 1-3 years

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

This job is two things at once: getting the statutory and accounting work right, and turning our numbers into decisions. Most of the routine compliance is already automated through our in-house invoice processing and daily MIS, and our operating numbers flow into a live dashboard. So we're not hiring you to keep records. We're hiring you to work out what they mean.

The timing matters. We're scaling volume hard and we raise capital periodically, so the numbers have to be fast and defensible at the same time. You'll sit close to the founders on both.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

- Compliance: bookkeeping, GST filings and statutory work across a multi-state footprint
- The monthly close and the MIS pack
- Marketplace settlements, reconciled across every channel we sell on
- Supplier payments and coordination with our external CA firm
- Diligence-readiness: clean records, a maintained data room, and fast answers when investors ask
- The finance automation: working alongside it, and finding the gaps and errors in it

WHAT YOU WILL GROW INTO

Built up over time, in partnership with the founders.

- Unit economics by channel, category and SKU
- Contribution margin leakage, including the true cost of returns and RTO
- Inventory and the working capital cycle,



which is where a toy business locks up its cash
- 13-week rolling cash flow
- Departmental budgeting and monthly variance analysis
- Investor reporting and diligence during fundraising

REQUIREMENTS

- Fluency with AI tools. This one is non-negotiable. You reach for them to automate the routine as it appears, so your time goes into judgment and the work that actually adds value
- A background in finance and accounting: a degree such as B.Com or M.Com. A newly qualified CA is preferred
- Analytical initiative: you dig into an anomaly, come back with the cause, and can explain it to someone who works outside finance
- An advantage: working knowledge of marketplace settlements and reconciliation

WHAT THE ROLE GIVES YOU THE CHANCE TO

- Build the finance function from the ground up. You'll shape how it runs, what it reports, and what it gets asked to answer
- Work with the founders directly, on compliance and commercial both
- Grow into the CFO role. That's the path if you build the function well

WHAT THIS JOB IS NOT

Compliance is the floor, not the job. The routine has to be right every month, and much of it now runs itself. This is a first finance hire rather than a seat in an existing team, and the scope grows as fast as you make it safe to hand over.

📌 Finance Associate (Pune)
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