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
Good 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
