Open Secret - Manager - Finance

Hiring for Finance Manager with 3-5 Years of experience post CA

About Open Secret:

Open Secret is a brand with a vision to make every Indian family eat better. Powered by a strong operating team of strategists and marketers from Harvard Business School, IIM, and IIT with 40+ years of collective FMCG experience and backed by the strongest set of mentors - Matrix, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal, and Vivek Gambhir.

Open Secret is a brand with a vision to make every Indian family eat better. Powered by a strong operating team of strategists and marketers from Harvard Business School, IIM, and IIT with 40+ years of collective FMCG experience and backed by the strongest set of mentors - Matrix, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal, and Vivek Gambhir.

Open Secret began as a challenger F&B brand offering a range of unjunked snacks from no-maida cookies to unjunked chocolates and a better-for-you bhujia. In 2021, Open Secret expanded its focus to become a one-stop platform for all things unjunked to cater to the consumer desire for 'better-for-you' food and beverage options across the day. Working closely with nutritionists and food experts, Open Secret offers a thoughtfully curated range of local and Un-Junked brands and products which are available across various channels.

Ahana Gautam is an experienced operator with a passion to build and grow the biggest consumer brands in India. She has a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She started her career at P&G where she worked across multiple functions - supply chain, finance and marketing. Ahana grew her passion for food brands at General Mills in the US where she launched natural and organic products.Ahana Gautam is an experienced operator with a passion to build and grow the biggest consumer brands in India. She has a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She started her career at P&G where she worked across multiple functions - supply chain, finance and marketing. Ahana grew her passion for food brands at General Mills in the US where she launched natural and organic products.

About the CEO and Co-Founder:

Ahana Gautam is an experienced operator with a passion to build and grow the biggest consumer brands in India. She has a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She started her career at P&G where she worked across multiple functions - supply chain, finance and marketing. Ahana grew her passion for food brands at General Mills in the US where she launched natural and organic products.

Key Outcomes to drive:

- Ensure GAAP guidance are followed as part of monthly book keeping activities

- Pro- actively ensure Ind AS and other statutory compliances on time with limited supervision

- Drive corporate governance best practices from financial internal controls perspective bottoms- up

Key output to drive with the finance support team:

- Month end closing activities to be done timely by the 5th of the following month

- Prepare and execute Sops for procure to pay, billings to collections and record to report accounting cycles

- Liaise with external auditors and bankers for recurring reporting cycles

- Support in fundraising and due diligence activities

Skill sought from prospective candidate-

- Be humble to learn

- Have the humility to cooperate with other colleagues.

- Task automation and structured problem solving skills and clarity on basics of accounting and business finance principles

Growth Prospects:

- Steep career trajectory with direct visibility to the finance head and CEO and gets to build a network with India's marquee NBFCs and VC funds

- Become a go to person for leading end to end finance and compliance operations with my support

- It has the potential to step into my shoes as the organisation grows