Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Source potential candidates through LinkedIn, job portals, social media platforms, and other recruitment channels.
• Screen resumes and conduct initial telephonic or virtual interviews to assess suitability.
• Coordinate and manage the complete interview process with hiring managers.
• Negotiate salary offers and support candidates throughout the onboarding process.
• Maintain accurate and updated records in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience in recruitment or talent acquisition.
• Strong working knowledge of multiple job portals and sourcing techniques.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple positions and meet hiring deadlines effectively.

1. Corporate Finance & Controls:

• Financial Oversight:

 Provide excellent leadership and management of Group Finance, measured by the effectiveness,

engagement and business units’ respect of the team.

 Build productive working relationships with stakeholders to understand their business operations

and the financial information needs of end users.

 Manage relationships with others across the Group to achieve alignment in key business strategies

and decisions.

 Collaborate, design, implement and review finance systems, policies and procedures to ensure

continuous improvement and contemporary, relevant practices.

 Oversee all month-end closing activities, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial

reporting.

 Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis processes, integrating insights into overall

division planning.

 Provide strategic advice on accounting policies, ensuring alignment with group standards and

regulatory requirements.

 Act as the primary point of contact for Group Accounts and Internal Audit, coordinating all

communication and reporting.

• Capital Allocation & Investment Strategy:

 Offer financial insights to optimize capital allocation across Company’s projects and initiatives.

 Collaborate with the executive team to evaluate ROI for potential investments, expansions, and

capital projects.

• Strategic Financial Modelling:

 Develop and maintain comprehensive financial models to support long-term strategic planning,

including scenario analysis for critical business decisions.

 Assess the financial impacts of new initiatives and recommend adjustments to align with

Company’s financial goals.

• Performance Metrics & Benchmarking:

 Design and implement performance metrics and benchmarking standards, driving continuous

improvement in both financial and operational performance.

2. Management Accounting:

• Accounting Oversight:

 Oversee finance systems managing transaction flows from source through interfaces to the general

ledger.

 Ensure finance ledgers are maintained on a timely basis, are accurate and complete, and are

structured for the dual purpose of providing relevant information to internal users and meeting

statutory obligations.

 Ensure reporting functions and responses to ad hoc requests for financial-related information are

appropriately delivered.

• Cost and Revenue Analysis:

 Manage the COMPANY Group’s financial reporting obligations, with responsibility for the

preparation and lodgement of compliant full-year and half-year consolidated accounts.

 Perform in-depth analysis of revenues and costs across customers, vendors, projects, business

units, and service lines, identifying areas for financial optimization.

 Oversee cost management initiatives, including policy formulation, variance analysis, and

implementation of zero-based budgeting principles.

 Prepare annual budgets for holding company entities.

 Perform the accounting function for Company business units.

• Enhanced Financial Intelligence:

 Develop real-time financial dashboards and reporting tools, enabling proactive management and

strategic decision-making by internal stakeholders.

• Systems and Process Improvement:

 Lead process automation and technology integration initiatives within finance and commercial

functions, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.

3. Commercial Activities:

• Bid & Proposal Development:

 Provide financial analysis and strategic input on bids, proposals, and pricing structures to secure

profitable COMPANY projects.

 Work closely with the sales team to ensure that commercial terms align with Company’s financial

targets and risk thresholds.

• Strategic Supplier Relationship Management:

 Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers, ensuring contract terms support

Company’s financial and operational objectives.

 Conduct quarterly business reviews with suppliers to monitor and ensure alignment with

contractual commitments.

• Lead Commercial Negotiations:

 Approve deal calculations in line with authority tables and negotiate favorable commercial terms

with suppliers and customers.

 Oversee vendor financing arrangements and collaborate with credit control on establishing

acceptable payment terms.

4. Collaboration with Corporate Support Functions:

• Manage Receivables: In collaboration with Company Group’s Credit Management team, oversee aged

receivables, ensuring alignment with cash flow targets and minimizing outstanding amounts. Address

persistent payment delays in partnership with business units, credit management, and customers.

Establish customer creditworthiness policies to mitigate risk and support sustainable collections.

• Policy Development: Formulate and enforce policies that ensure compliance with corporate governance,

regulatory standards, and vendor requirements.

• Ensure Legal & Compliance Alignment: Act as the main liaison for in-house legal and corporate secretary,

overseeing contract terms, renewals, and legal matters. Manage disputes through litigation or alternative

resolution, coordinating with legal advisors. Maintain vendor compliance, ensuring regulatory adherence.

• Support Human Capital Management: In collaboration with Company Group’s HR team, act as the main

liaison for in-house legal and corporate secretary, overseeing contract terms, renewals, and legal matters.

Manage disputes through litigation or alternative resolution, coordinating with legal advisors. Maintain

vendor compliance, ensuring regulatory adherence.

• Talent Development: Implement training programs for finance and commercial teams to support

divisional goals and ensure succession planning for critical roles.

5. Risk Management:

• Enterprise Risk Assessment: Conduct regular assessments to identify financial, operational, and market

risks, developing appropriate mitigation strategies. Regularly review the risk landscape with senior

management.

• Crisis & Contingency Planning: Develop contingency plans to manage potential disruptions, including

currency volatility, supply chain risks, and project delays.

• Risk Registry Maintenance: Maintain and regularly update the division’s risk registry, ensuring that all

risks are effectively tracked, monitored, and mitigated.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 15-20 years of experience in senior finance and commercial roles, with a strong focus on

COMPANY, technology, or related industries, preferably in the Middle East.

• Proven ability to manage large-scale financial operations, including P&L responsibility, commercial

negotiations, and risk management.

• Demonstrated experience in implementing and maintaining strong financial controls within a large

organization.

• Experience in managing strategic business partnerships with global IT brands, negotiating high-value

contracts, and driving financial performance for complex, high-growth businesses.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to engage effectively with senior executives

and external stakeholders.

EDUCATION & SKILLS

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field is required. A

Master’s degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification is preferred.

• Professional certifications such as CPA, ACCA, or CIMA are highly desirable.

Skills:

• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to mentor and develop high-performing

teams.

• Excellent financial acumen, with expertise in financial planning, analysis, reporting, and the

implementation of financial controls.

• Strong commercial negotiation skills, particularly in contract and deal structuring.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with senior executives and

external stakeholders.

• In-depth knowledge of financial regulations, corporate governance, and risk management frameworks.

• Proficiency in financial software, ERP systems, and advanced Excel skills.

ABOUT UNRAVEL CARBON

Unravel Carbon enables companies to assess their carbon footprint by tracking their digital financial footprint with its proprietary carbon emission factor model; making it easy, fast and convenient to become climate positive.

We aim to accelerate the participation of all companies, big and small, in the global fight against climate change. And we want to do it the 21st century way—autonomous, painless, and beautiful.

Unravel Carbon consists of a team of software engineers, data scientists, founders and climate experts with a passion to solve the world’s most pressing issue—climate change. Collectively, our leadership team has launched and invested in multiple companies, and are now combining their experience and knowledge here at Unravel.

We are backed by some of the world’s best funds and investors and are part of Y Combinator’s W22 batch.

Unravel Carbon was founded in 2021 with headquarters in Singapore.

Unravel Carbon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unravelcarbon/

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for early members of our India team. You will be part of the team that establishes our India product development team. We are looking for candidates who have high potential, are excited about tackling the climate change problem and are excited to grow in a high-growth environment while working with the Singapore HQ.

A junior/mid-level backend software engineer. Must be comfortable to work in a small development team and have the initiative to work alone on smaller problem sets. Must be passionate about climate-tech for a better future.

• Build backend server applications using Flask/DJango framework
• Collaborate with the data team to integrate data pipelines into our backend system.
• Collaborate with the front end team.
• Analyze processes and code to troubleshoot problems and identify areas of improvement.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• Take lead on projects, as needed.

ABOUT YOU

• Willingness to learn, be a self-starter, and thrive in uncertainty; you would be one of the first few employees at an early stage startup, be prepared to venture into unknown territory, collaborate and learn
• Meticulous and detail-oriented
• Required skills:
• Python Backend Development Frameworks (Flask, Django). Backend development in other languages/frameworks can be considered too
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
• SQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, DuckDB)
• Running/managing Linux servers on Cloud services (AWS/GCS/Azure)
• Optional skills:
• Front End Web development (ReactJS)
• Python data science tools (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy)
• Python NLP tools

YOUR WORK STYLE

• An understanding of agile product development
• Self exploration and self learning of the latest technologies and applying them to solving the technical challenges our team face
• Self­-starter (proactive and independent) with an ability to prioritize different assignments and tasks to meet deadlines
• Comfortable working in a collaborative environment
• Eager to think outside of the box and creatively problem-solve

YOUR PREFERRED BACKGROUND

A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related discipline AND 1+ years working experience in the IT industry. 

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

We offer an exciting challenge for a purpose-driven person who thoroughly enjoys learning and takes up responsibilities in a multi-cultural, primarily virtual, and pioneering organization.  

We nurture a culture that allows you to thrive, where your skills can be honed and your ideas will be heard, and where collaboration across teams and with global partners is the default.

1. Work on a disruptive product that's still in the early stages
2. Review functional and design specifications to ensure a complete understanding of the system
3. Take ownership of the end-to-end system and take all requirements, issues, and enhancements to closure single-handedly
4. Mobile testing experience with strong basics, understanding of testing and shipping releases on these platforms - iOS, Android, and Web
5. Prior experience in creating optimal test strategy - functional, non-functional, analytics, and automation
6. Experience with relational database and SQL queries
7. Sharp analytical abilities and excellent written and verbal communication skills
8. Experience of working with JIRA
9. Prior experience in automation testing
10. Prior experience in working with tools like -
    1. Figma
    2. Datadog
    3. AWS

·       Primarily responsible for working on various service requests related to maintaining database security (roles, privileges, authentication), creating schema and copying data

·       Work on installation, configuration, creation and administration of HP Vertica database clusters and AWS RDS MySQL database.

·       Work with platform, product and other support teams to participate in release and change management processes to implement new features/functions as well support mandatory patches or upgrade activities on weekends.

·       Responsible for database performance tuning, query tuning and database operations including migration and upgrade.

·       Plan and implement periodic upgrades of database schema and perform testing and verification of released database schema upgrades.

·       Configure and manage database backup and restore, participate in Disaster Recovery

·       Create and maintain documentation, procedures and best practice guides for database deployment and maintenance.

Role

• Work as part of a small team to build React Native iOS / Android applications.
• Design, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Developing new user-facing features using React Native.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wire-frames into high-quality code
• Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of android and ios devices.
• Release applications to IOS and Google Play stores.
• Work with native modules when required.

Skills

• Strong proficiency in React Js, React Native, JavaScript, TypeScript, Object Oriented Programming - 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native
• Deep knowledge of component state management experience (specifically in React Native)
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle
• Good understanding of Redux
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for bench-marking and optimisation