Exly - Business Finance Manager - FP&A

About Exly:

Headquartered in California and Y Combinator backed, Exly is a Shopify-like platform for creators & knowledge professionals (coaches, instructors, experts, artists etc.) to launch, manage and grow their business online. Founded by IIT/ IIM/ BITS/ Yale/ BCG Alumni and 3X Entrepreneurs, we are well funded and backed by top Indian VC firms along with start-up veterans like Kunal Shah (CRED). The company is founded by alumni from top IITs, IIMs, BITS, Yale including ex-entrepreneurs and from firms such as BCG, Hike, Dunzo and P&G.

Since the launch of Exly's first version in December 2020 we have grown 35X. Creators have earned more than $2 Million since launch through Exly.

We have just closed our series A (yet to announce) and are looking to build out our leadership team across functions.

Listed at 30 startups to watch - Inc42

Exly: Empowering creators to build businesses - Financial Express

About the role:

The Business Finance Manager will develop a clear understanding of key business drivers for each line of business, analyze key financial metrics, and provide decision-making support to Business & Finance teams. Reviewing and streamlining all Business verticals from a Business Finance perspective which includes business-level margin analysis and budget modeling.

What you'll do:

- Review and analyze historical business trends, understand demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop financial models, and evaluate business outcomes

- Continuously monitor financial and business KPI's, highlight trends and analyse causes of variance

- Keenly follow the competitive landscape and feed management with relevant intelligence

- Monitor competitor activity and strategies to benchmark performance and identifying improvement areas

- Partner with business teams to improve results

- Handling ad-hoc research requests as per management requests

- Build and manage financial models for forecasting, variance analysis and problem solving

- Facilitate regular business review meetings: present key insights and provide recommendations for decision making

- Suggest predictions for future based on current data trends

The successful applicant will have:

- 3+ years of experience in financial analysis for a tech/online business.

- Expertise in working with large amounts of data: facts, figures, and number crunching

- Ability to see through the data and analyse it to derive conclusions

- Proven track record of delivering projects in a timely manner

- Experience in presenting findings and insights to business leaders

- Experience in Quarterly and Monthly Financial reporting, annual budgeting and forecasting process

- Experience in evaluating expenditure proposals

- Experience in Accounting will be an added advantage.

What we offer:



- Opportunity to work with highly talented, motivated and committed people

- Great learning opportunity in a fast paced ecosystem

- Flexible yet result oriented work culture

- Ample growth opportunities