Associate Manager - Business Development

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.

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Project Head – Marketing to lead the marketing and

launch activities of real estate projects in Pune. This role demands a strong network of media

vendors, sharp media planning capabilities, excellent vendor management skills, and an innovative

approach to promotions, budget optimization, and brand visibility. The role will involve collaborating

with cross-functional teams to ensure marketing efforts align with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

 Project Launches:

Drive end-to-end marketing strategies for new real estate project launches, ensuring

maximum visibility and lead generation.

 Media Planning & Vendor Management:

Plan, negotiate, and execute 360° media campaigns (offline & online) through a strong

network of media vendors in Pune. Drive 360-degree marketing campaigns including digital,

ATL, BTL, and influencer marketing.

 Network Development:

Build and maintain strong relationships with media houses, influencers, celebrity management

agencies, and promotional partners.

 Budget Planning & Cost Management:

Prepare, allocate, and manage marketing budgets efficiently, ensuring optimum returns on

investment.

 Creative Oversight:

Provide creative direction in advertising, branding, and campaign design; ensure design

aesthetics align with brand guidelines and market expectations.

 Negotiation & Procurement:

Lead negotiations with vendors, media partners, and promotional agencies to secure

competitive pricing and service excellence.

 Cross-functional Coordination:

Collaborate with sales, design, digital, and external agencies to ensure seamless execution of

marketing initiatives.

 Performance Tracking:

Monitor and report on campaign performance, visibility metrics, and lead generation

outcomes.

Key Skills & Competencies:

 Proven experience in real estate project launches.

 Strong network of media vendors in Pune (essential requirement).

 Knowledge of media houses, influencer marketing, and celebrity engagement strategies.

 Expertise in budget planning, media buying, and cost optimization.

 Strong creative sensibility for ad layouts, creatives, and media placements.

 Excellent negotiation, communication, and project management skills.

 Ability to multitask and handle multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.

Candidate Profile:

 Experience: 4+ years in real estate marketing or large-scale event/media management

(Pune market experience preferred).

 Education: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Mass Communication, Business Administration,

or related field. MBA preferred.

 Location Flexibility: Based in Pune with local market expertise.

 Personal Traits: Dynamic, detail-oriented, proactive, strong leadership and interpersonal

skills.

Job Description

About:

Market network for digital creators. The platform provides a marketplace for YouTubers, twitch streamers, Instagrammers. It provides tools to creators to build their brand, business, and unlock new revenue streams while growing existing revenue streams.

Creators today find themselves at the mercy of social media platforms to get their content out in front of their fans. Its is a seed funded startup building a platform to encourage more creators to take full control of their growth, become self-sufficient, and not get exploited.Softwares have streamlined other industries to great benefit in the last 25 years. We think it’s inevitable that it will also happen in our ecosystem. In the last decade, we saw Shopify do that for e-commerce entrepreneurs and AngelList empower tech entrepreneurs. We want to do the same for media entrepreneurs. How do we plan on doing this? By helping creators globally to engage deeply with their fans and communities; monetize much earlier into their journeys of being successful independent businesses and empower them to effectively manage their business. The founding team of CreatorStack is a diverse mixture of seasoned technology entrepreneurs, musicians, content creators, and artists. We love solving problems. And we love solving them as a team. If you believe that chasing your creativity should be financially rewarding, then come join us.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work on a disruptive product that’s still in its early stages
• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of the CreatorStack mobile app aimed at iOS and Android
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the CreatorStack app
• Mentor other engineers, define our technical culture and help to build a fast-growing team.

Must Have:

• Have experience in product development, architecture, and design for a 2 to 5 years
• Are proficient in Flutter language
• Have the ability to learn and look for ways to improve yourself and the processes around you
• Have strong knowledge of iOS and Android frameworks and the ability to deal with different screen sizes
• Are proficient with RESTful api's to connect mobile applications to back-end services
• Experience with storage, threading, and performance tuning
• The ability to mentor and support other team members by doing code reviews and applying your experience in process and technical leadership
• Experience working with agile team environments and if you are a self-starter, conscientious member of the team
• Good knowledge in pixel-perfect implementation of designs

Nice to have:

• If you have worked in a fast product-driven culture and have the ability to build an experience that solves users' problems - we like to work with team members who have a solid hold on product and design thinking
• If you have led teams in your past experiences
• If you also have experience in working with languages like React and Swift

Benefits :

• It is a market network platform for internet native digital content creators turns their passion into a profitable venture. Our products help them accelerate growth and increase direct monetization for creators around the globe

We are looking for a motivated professional who is responsible for performing software verification of Web Application as per the defined standards & procedures.

Skill Set

Primary

• Development and testing of Hardware interfaces & Embedded Software applications.

• Development and testing of network interfaces like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, USB etc.

• Understand software requirements and architecture specifications to perform testing

activities like authoring of scripts and writing manual test case, execution & creating test reports etc.

• Automation testing experience in Linux embedded application, Linux device drivers, API testing and testing networking tools and utilities.

• Candidate should have good experience in testing of Web Application and Websites

• Hands-on experience in providing innovative solutions to Automate Web/Windows/iOS applications.

• Extensive experience with Test Automation tools such as Selenium, VSTS Coded UI.

• Working knowledge of software IDEs and debugging tools (i.e., Visual Studio/.NET etc.)

• Hands on experience in developing Test Automation Harnesses/Tools

• Proficient in different scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PowerShell.

• Good knowledge in testing windows .NET embedded applications and API testing.

• Conduct code reviews, with constant quality code review feedback for the code written by software developers.

• Well versed with Cloud architecture and deployment with Microsoft Azure (preferred) / Amazon Web Services.

• Well versed with Testing/QA concepts with good knowledge of Manual Testing is must.

• Strong analytical skills to be able to translate from system requirements and use cases to detailed test cases.

• Familiar with setting up of test environment for V&V activities.

• Good knowledge in Databases and constructing SQL commands.

• Collaborate with developers and QA leads to improve testability, automation, and tools.

• Participate in Test Planning, system test strategy, methodology, and creation of system integration test cases and make them traceable back to the system requirements, feature lists and design documents.

Additional

• Good knowledge in Data Analytics Testing

• Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.

• Prior experience of Performance or Security testing will be a plus.

• Prior experience of designing fixtures to test hardware integration will be a big plus.

• Prior Experience with managing big documentation to meet FDA or regulatory requirement will be a plus

Soft Skills

• Excellent documentation and Written/Verbal communication skills.

• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated
  
  
  

• Identify bad code practices in Ruby and write new analyzers to detect them.
• Improve the coverage of automatically fixable issues.
• Ensure fewer false-positives are reported by the analyzer.
• Work on the internal tools that support analysis runtimes.
• Contribute to open-source static analysis tools.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Strong foundational knowledge in Computer Science.
• At least 3 years of professional software development experience in Ruby.
• Understanding of the nuances of execution of the source code (AST, data flow graphs, etc).
• Familiarity with Ruby best practices followed in the industry.
• Native experience with Linux/Unix environment.
• A focus on delivering high-quality code through strong testing practices.

• Writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code
• Understanding, analyzing, and implementing – Business needs, feature modification requests, conversion into software components
• Integration of user-oriented elements into different applications, data storage solutions
• Developing – Backend components to enhance performance and receptiveness, server-side logic, and platform, statistical learning models, highly responsive web applications
• Designing and implementing – High availability and low latency applications, data protection and security features
• Performance tuning and automation of application
• Working with Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, etc.
• Creating predictive models for AI and ML-based features
• Keeping abreast with the latest technology and trends
• Fine-tune and develop AI/ML-based algorithms based on results

Good proficiency in,

• Python frameworks like Django, etc.
• Web frameworks and RESTful APIs
• Core Python fundamentals and programming
• Code packaging, release, and deployment
• Database knowledge
• Circles, conditional and control statements
• Object-relational mapping
• Code versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket

Fundamental understanding of,

• Front-end technologies like JS, CSS3 and HTML5
• AI, ML, Deep Learning, Version Control, Neural networking
• Data visualization, statistics, data analytics
• Design principles that are executable for a scalable app
• Creating predictive models
• Libraries like Tensorflow, Scikit-learn, etc
• Multi-process architecture
• Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
• Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system
• Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
• Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!