OlaCabs - Manager - Business Finance

About Us:

Ola is India's largest mobility platform and one of the world's largest ride-hailing companies, serving 150+ cities across India, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. The Ola app offers mobility solutions by connecting customers to drivers and a wide range of vehicles across bikes, auto-rickshaws, metered taxis, and cabs, enabling convenience and transparency for hundreds of millions of consumers and over 1.5 million driver-partners.

Ola's core mobility offering in India is supplemented by its electric-vehicle arm, Ola Electric and India's largest fleet management business. With its acquisition of Ridlr, India's leading public transportation app and investment in Vogo, a dockless scooter sharing solution, Ola is looking to build mobility for the next billion Indians. Ola also extends its consumer offerings like micro-insurance and credit led payments through Ola Financial Services and a range of owned food brands through India's largest network of kitchens under its Food business.

Ola was founded in 2011 by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati with a mission to build mobility for a billion people.

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Role and responsibilities:

1. Business Planning/Forecasting/Reporting/Business Partnering

a. Drive Annual Business Plan preparation

b. Assess and evaluate financial performance and provide insights and recommendations

c. Provide periodic updates / flash to management on the actual and rolling forecast for the month.

d. Identify new methodologies to evaluate company's performance

e. Acts as a one source of truth for numbers - Key financial metrics and performance drivers

f. Handle complex & adhoc requests with a short turnaround time, and supplement such requests with appropriate analysis and comments to support quick decision making

g. Identify opportunities to automate processes, increase efficiency and drive data-based decision making

Skills, Qualifications & Personality:

1. CA/CFA/MBA with 3-5 years of work experience in Business Finance/FP&A roles (preferably in an E-commerce start-up)

2. Strong communication, analytical, collaboration/ team-player and inter-personal skills

3. Highly analytical, detail oriented with business sense

4. Ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve results in a fast-paced, dynamic, ever-growing and often ambiguous environment

5. Must be Proactive and self-motivated. Should own and drives initiatives to closure

6. Advanced knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Reporting Tools etc.