Application engineer

Finance & Operations Manager – IT Company

Role Overview

The Finance & Operations Manager drives financial health and operational efficiency, ensuring IT projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with strategic goals. This role blends financial expertise with operational oversight to optimize resources, control costs, and enable sustainable growth in a fast-paced technology environment.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Management

• Develop annual budgets, forecasts, and financial models.
• Monitor project profitability, billing cycles, and cash flow.
• software licensing, and vendor expenses.
• Prepare monthly/quarterly financial reports for leadership.
• Ensure compliance with tax, audit, and accounting standards.

Operations Management

• Allocate resources effectively across projects and teams.
• Streamline processes using ITIL/Agile best practices.
• Manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts.
• Track KPIs: utilization rates, SLA adherence, delivery timelines.

Skills & Tools

• Finance: Budgeting, cost analysis, CAPEX/OPEX management.
• Tech Awareness: IT project lifecycle
• Analytical: KPI tracking(Excel, Power BI).
• Tools: Jira, Confluence, MS Excel.
• Soft Skills: Leadership, problem-solving, vendor negotiation.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Project profit margin
• OPEX vs CAPEX ratio
• Resource utilization rate
• Vendor performance score
• Invoice-to-payment cycle time

Impact Statement:

A Finance & Operations Manager ensures that every dollar spent drives value, every resource is utilized optimally, and every project contributes to the company’s bottom line—keeping IT operations efficient, scalable, and profitable.

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Work individually and closely with other members of the team during code sprints to deliver a complete end-to-end solution.
• Articulate project status to other team members and management.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products.
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution.

• Sharp analytical abilities, proven design skills, excellent communication skills experience handling the independent execution with minimal guidance, prior hands on experience or understanding on working with Django and python.

• 1 years experience with Django.

• Must be from Tier 1 University.

Required Skills:

• ASP.NET, C# .NET, SQL, Web API
• jQuery, JavaScript

• Technically lead a team of 6-8 .NET developers
• Understands the requirement assigned for the development
• Performs the unit testing 
• Resolves bugs assigned, withing SLA time.
• Perform day to day activities of agile methodology
• Leads Daily Huddle & Scrum meeting.
• Takes responsility of CR developmet with all tasks included for it.
• Should perform code review whenever required

Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR)  by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

Cogoport Leadership

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Life at Cogoport: It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

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Why Cogoport?

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

Areas of Impact for you

• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Develop large multi-tenant applications in Rails.
• Understand Rails best practices and religiously introduce those to the codebase.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Loves coding.
• 2-4 years of experience building scalable & complex products from scratch.
• Demonstrated ability to build complex scalable technology products.
• Should have prior experience of working with ROR, React, PostgreSQL and cloud infra.
• Understanding scaling strategies for high-traffic Rails applications.
• Understanding O-Auth2 or JWT (Json Web Token) authentication mechanisms.
• Experience in using ActiveRecordSerialize, RSpec and active interaction.
• Knowledge about Asynchronous Networking in Ruby; Refactoring ActiveRecord Models; Background Job processing using Redis and Sidekiq; Writing automated Deployment Scripts using Capistrano, Ansible etc.
• Expertise in Data Science and Machine Learning is a pl
• Expertise in Jenkins, Kubernetes, dockers and cloud technology is a plus.

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

Responsibilities

• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of engineers
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
• Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product decisions

Apply If You have:

• Graduation/Post Graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
• 6-10 years of strong experience in JAVA(Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), JavaScript, NodeJS with good exposure to MySQL
• Experience with AWS, Microservices, Caching, Performance Optimization, Nginx, Solr, Redis, Redshift
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in dynamic and disruptive environment
• 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of backend, frontend and QA.
• Hands on writing and reviewing code
• Exceptional design and architectural skills
• Strong communication skills
• High motivation to work in a fast paced, dynamic, collaborative team environment

o Create content

o Media Pitching

o Set strategies for the team

o Check the drafts from associates and oversee the Associate's work

o Work on monthly dossiers and other documents

o Strong relationships with the team and the media

o Solving concerns of the team (if and when, any)

o Assist in cracking opportunities (where required)

o Ensure operational excellence (dossiers & reviews)

We are looking for a senior React.js developer who can guide the current team and also work on our project. The requirement could be for 3-4 months or at max 6 months. Hence a full-time remote consultant is preferred with about 4-5 years of experience in React.

This position is for a ReactJS developer. Since we are a start-up this position will have a lot of exposure to other verticals such as product management as well. There is no limit to learning for a person who is willing to take responsibility.