Role Objective

Drive data-backed decision-making by combining strong financial analysis with a solid understanding of accounting flows. The role requires identifying performance drivers, validating financial data integrity, and ensuring accurate cost tracking to support effective budget control and business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Analysis & Insights

 Perform monthly variance analysis (Actual vs Budget vs Prior Period) and clearly explain drivers

 Analyze revenue streams, cost structures and margins at a granular level

 Identify leakages, inefficiencies and anomalies in financial and operational data

 Translate data into actionable insights and flag and recommend corrective actions for business and finance teams

2. Budgeting & Forecasting

 Build and maintain financial models for budgeting and forecasting

 Track actuals against budgets and highlight risks or overspending

 Support departments in understanding and managing their budgets

3. Accounting Validation & Control

 Review financial transactions to ensure correct GL mapping, cost center allocation and expense classification

 Validate Opex vs Capex classification and identify mis-postings impacting financial reports

 Ensure invoices, accruals and journal entries are recorded accurately

 Work closely with accounting teams to resolve discrepancies and improve data accuracy

4. Reporting & Automation

 Prepare management reports and dashboards (Excel / Power Query)

 Automate recurring reports and improve reporting efficiency

 Standardize reporting formats for consistency and accuracy

5. Cross-Functional Collaboration





 Work with operations, admissions and finance teams to validate data and assumptions

 Ensure alignment between operational data and financial reporting

Mandatory Skills (Non-Negotiable)

Candidates must demonstrate ALL of the below:

Advanced Excel (Hands-on, not theoretical)

 Pivot Tables (multi-level)

 XLOOKUP / INDEX-MATCH

 SUMIFS / COUNTIFS

 Data cleaning, structuring, and reconciliation

 Ability to work with large datasets (10,000+ rows)

Financial & Analytical Understanding

 Strong understanding of P&L structure

 Clear grasp of revenue vs cost drivers

 Understanding of margins, growth and variance analysis

 Ability to interpret numbers and explain business impact (not just compute)

Budgeting & Forecasting

 Practical exposure to budgeting cycles and variance tracking Accounting & Control Awareness

 Understanding of Opex vs Capex classification

 Ability to independently review, question and validate journal entries, invoice postings and expense allocations

 Working knowledge of Tally or similar accounting systems

 Ability to identify incorrect postings and their impact on financials

Valuable to Have (But Not Mandatory)

Power BI / Tableau

Experience in education or service-based organizations

Exposure to automation tools (Power Query / basic data modeling)

Note: This role requires strong analytical capability along with practical accounting understanding.

Candidates limited to data entry, basic reporting, or purely accounting operations without analytical exposure will not be considered.

Pay: ₹30,000.00 - ₹40,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

📌 Accounts and Finance Analyst (India)
🏢 Ekya Schools
📍 India