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Job Title: Senior Financial Analyst, Contract Compliance Audit

Discover Dollar:

Discover Dollar started with the vision to help companies to discover value by harnessing internal data. Discover Dollar helps enterprises to identify and resolve overpayments and leakages by analyzing a vast amount of data including unstructured data like emails. contracts using machine learning and AI. Discover Dollar has won many awards, to name some: 1) "Global Most Innovative Solution"​ by SAP in Orlando, Florida 2) "Anthah Prerana"​ Award by Microsoft, TiE Bangalore & Govt of Karnataka 3) "Top Retail Solution Provider"​ by CIO Review We are fortunate to be mentored by veterans like ex-CFO of Google Patrick, Co-Founder of Infosys Mr. Shibulal. Being a Techstars company Discover Dollar believes in Give First philosophy. Discover Dollar's solution is sought by Fortune 500 enterprises and delivered over $1B+ in savings including Target, Metro, Canadian Tire, AB-Inbev, Lowe's, Advance Auto Parts, Seven Eleven, Neiman Marcus, Saks, Hudson Bay, Carrier etc.

Role Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst, Contract Compliance Audit will review vendor contracts and related transactions to identify financial leakage and non compliance against agreed commercial terms. This role focuses on interpreting contract wordings from a commercial and finance standpoint, translating terms into audit checks, validating them using evidence, and supporting recovery through claims, credits, or pricing corrections.

Key Responsibilities

1) Contract Review and Commercial Term Interpretation

• Read and interpret contract clauses from a financial and negotiation standpoint, identify key commercial levers and payable or receivable impacts.
• Extract measurable terms such as pricing rules, rate cards, discounts, rebates, allowances, credits, penalties, minimum commitments, caps, floors, escalations, indexation, and payment terms.
• Summarize contracts into a clear “audit ready” terms sheet with definitions, assumptions, and evidence requirements.

2) Build Audit Logic and Test Plans

• Translate contract terms into practical audit tests and validation logic, define what data is needed, what exceptions look like, and how to quantify impact.
• Create checklists and SOP style documentation that can be repeated across vendors and contract types.
• Define sampling plans when full population testing is not possible, and ensure sampling is defensible and documented.

3) Transaction Validation and Evidence Building

• Validate compliance using invoices, POs, rate cards, SOWs, service records, timesheets, delivery logs, ticketing records, and supporting backup.
• Recalculate expected charges, compare against actual billing, identify variances, and quantify recoverable value.
• Maintain strong audit trails, including calculations, supporting files, and clear explanation of the issue and root cause.

4) Findings Development and Recovery Support

• Prepare claim schedules and evidence summaries for client review and for vendor discussion where required.
• Support discussions with internal stakeholders and vendors to explain findings clearly, address pushback using facts, and drive resolution.
• Track open items through to closure, including credits, refunds, or adjustments, and ensure learnings are documented.

5) Stakeholder Collaboration and Communication

• Coordinate with Client’s point of contact, buying team and vendors to obtain the right data, clarify definitions, and confirm assumptions on the financial terms of contract.
• Present findings in a structured manner and provide clear recommendations for controls improvement.

Key Commercial Areas This Role Should Understand

• Time and Materials, rate cards, markups, overtime and premiums, role based rates, travel and expense rules.
• SLA and performance linked credits, penalties, service level measurement, downtime rules, and exclusions.
• Rebates, volume tiers, growth incentives, retro rebates, accrual logic, and true ups.
• Discounts, allowances, MDF, co op funding, price protection, and promotional support.
• Payment terms, early pay discounts, late fees, indexing, escalation clauses, caps, floors, and minimum commitments.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 4 to 8 plus years of experience reviewing vendor or customer contracts from a commercial and finance standpoint, with strong ability to interpret financial terms and translate them into measurable checks.
• Hands on exposure to key commercial constructs such as Time and Materials, rate cards, markups, SLAs and service credits, rebates, discounts, allowances, penalties, price protection, escalation clauses, and payment terms.
• Proven experience validating contract terms against actual transactions, such as invoices, rate cards, SOWs, timesheets, service reports, and supporting documentation, and quantifying financial impact.
• Strong Excel skills for analysis, reconciliation, and building structured audit schedules and trackers.
• Strong communication skills to document findings clearly and discuss them confidently with internal stakeholders and, when needed, vendors.

Skills

Contract compliance audit MDF Contract compliance overtime premium rate card service lever agreements discounts time and material rebates markup

• Strong B2B Sales / UX/UI/Tech solutions Consulting Sales Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 2+ YOE in B2B Tech solutions Sales, with a focus on selling UX/UI services or digital transformation consulting solutions
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have direct experience in hunting new leads, fixing meetings, and closing deals with CXO-level stakeholders
• Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have strong consultative selling experience — including handling proposals, pricing, RFPs, and end-to-end sales cycles
• Mandatory (Core Skills 1): Should be confident in outreach via LinkedIn and email
• Mandatory (Core Skills 2): Familiarity with CRM tools (Zoho CRM – added advantage), pipeline management, and reporting
• Mandatory (Company): UX/UI Design Studios OR Software Tech Service companies
• Mandatory (Exclusion): Do not consider candidates from EdTech, hardware sales, SaaS sales

Preferred

• Preferred (Domain): Knowledge of BFSI/Fintech

Preferred Companies

Target Comapnies: UI/UX & Design-Focused Agencies - (Lollypop Design Studio, Yellow Slice, Think Design, 3 Minds Digital, TECHVED Consulting, The Minimalist, Growth Hackers Digital, The Glitch, DesignCoz, F1 Studioz, HumanX, ProCreator, Octet Design Studio, Ungrammary, Onething Design, Iqonic Design, Dipa Inhouse.)

Software Development & Tech Service Startups - (Unico Connect, Robosoft Technologies, Binmile, EvolutionCo, Nimap Infotech, Route Mobile, Matrix Bricks, Probey Services, GwayERP, Miracuves, Avigma Tech, Dcyber TechLab Pvt Ltd, THINKBAR, AdvertSneak Technologies, Viaante, AMELA Technology, Terralogic Solutions Inc, Acumen Cognitive Engineering, Ambab Infotech.)

Large IT Consulting & Enterprise Service Companies - (Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, LTIMindtree, Mastek, Onward Technologies, eClerx, Hexaware, Tata Teleservices)

Position description:

• Architecture & Design systems for Predictive analysis and writing algorithms to deal with financial data
• Must have experience on web services and APIs (REST, JSON, and similar) and creation and consumption of RESTful APIs
• Proficiently writing algorithms with Python/Pandas/Numpy; Jupyter/PyCharm
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Eg. MSSQL, MongoDB, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Implementing Machine Learning Models using Python/R for best performance
• Working with Time Series Data & analyzing large data sets.
• Implementing financial strategies in python and generating reports to analyze the strategy results.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Writing algorithms to deal with financial data and Implementing financial strategies in (Python, SQL) and generating reports to analyze the strategy results.

Educational qualifications preferred Degree: Bachelors degree

Required Knowledge:

• Highly skilled in SQL, Python, Pandas, Numpy, Machine Learning, Predictive Modelling, Algorithm designing, OOPS concepts
• 2 - 7 years Full-Time working experience on core SQL, Python role (Non-Support)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, equivalent or higher education.
• Writing algorithms to deal with financial data and Implementing financial strategies in (Python, SQL) and generating reports to analyze the strategy results.

You Will:

• Lead, coach and mentor a team of 8-10 engineers so they all learn, grow, and succeed.
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with cross border teams.
• Provide oversight and accountability for technical decisions.
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.
• You will collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, QA and Devops Engineers in an agile development environment.
• Constantly learn and grow as an engineer and an engineering leader.
• Demonstrate a passion for customers and technology.


You must have:

• Experience in the design, development, and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications with multiple tiers
• Exposure on agile test-driven development for robustness, usability, reliability, security and performance.
• Strong technical aptitude for any programming language, preferred, Core JAVA and Spring Boot and other Spring libraries, Eureka, Hystrix etc.
• Experience of creating architecture or developing web services using Open source technologies and to integrate applications with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra
• Solid understanding of OOPS, algorithms and data structures.
• Experience on Kafka / Scala / Storm / Elastic Search and Web Services like RESTful.
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems
• Extensive experience with version control systems (Git is preferred) and issue tracking systems (JIRA is preferred)

Big Pluses if you:

• Have a strong focus on business outcomes
• Are comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Are self-motivated and can get things done
• Have the ability to communicate and defend your ideas clearly
• Have a strong knowledge of threading, concurrency, scaling, and high availability.
• Have a desire to build products that users love

• Stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master degree in engineering
• 7+ years of work experience, 1+ years of experience as a lead
• Proficient understanding of HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Proficient understanding of ReactJs or similar library
• Good understanding of responsive web development
• Good understanding of SEO and analytics
• Ability to break the business problem into smaller features
• Ability to access the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility

Do you want to develop products and experiences that mean the world to your clients and their users? Do you want to work on transformative projects as opposed to minor tweaks to a product? Do you want to be exposed to work ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises to global non-profits?

We are Finiteloop, a growing design and technology studio in Bangalore. We work hard to build grounded and exhilarating experiences for our customers and their users. Our design work dives deep into Design Thinking, Experience design, and Service design. On the technology side, we work on Solution architecture of large enterprise applications and, cutting-edge explorations on new technologies like Machine Learning and Blockchain.

We strive for client success and push our clients into thinking and doing more for their customer's experiences. All of us are self-driven individuals passionate about building products that deliver great experiences at scale. Our team is currently working on a wide variety of projects: communication design for safety culture on board cargo ships, mobile app for seafarer community, transforming how public radio can integrate with the digital world and, simplifying the user experience of oil and gas explorers.

We are looking for a person with excellent visual sensibilities with an ability to code jaw-dropping designs that make people feel like a part of the future. We want to look towards you as our Usability champion, especially when designing for accessibility. You will have to be self-driven, understand your brief and think more on it before executing it as per schedule. You will juggle couple of projects at the same time and we will create a space you follow your creative processes within these project constraints.

We have an extremely open culture that promotes questioning, honest critique and, quirky thinking. Over and above everything, we only can work with people who will do anything to follow the highest ethics of business and teamwork and a dedication to their craft.

Applications we want to work with you on:

• Digital applications and media (web or Mobile)
• Detailed component-level reusable UI libraries
• Applying micro interactions and creating components for the same.
• Developing user friendly, interactive, responsive web and mobile apps.

Things we would love to surprise us with:

• Independently design & develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimise application for maximum speed and scalability on front-end side
• Collaborate with team members and key stakeholders
• Ensures latest technology standards, guidelines are utilized for development
• Assess & analyse web performance, come with resolution & causes and guide the team in implementation
• Guide and mentor team members
• Image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Enable and use automation tools to fast track development

Technologies & Tools we would want you to work on:

• ReactJS
• Angular
• HTML, CSS, CSS Pre-Processors
• NodeJS
• SEO, Accessibility
• Automated Unit & End-End tests
• React Native, Flutter

Some of our projects which you will get to work on: COVID-19 response | Service design exercise for reorganizing a $200mil company | Creating UX experience for products using Blockchain technology | Speculative design exercises for imagining the future | Creating an award-winning marketing website | Reimagining public radio digital experience

Write to us with any samples of work and a small note on why you would be interested to work with us.