Product Manager

Job Title: Finance Manager / Head of Finance

Experience Required: Minimum 10+ years in Finance, Accounting & Strategic Financial Leadership

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Bangalore

About LXL Ideas :

LXL Ideas has been revolutionizing the educational sector for over two decades, creating impactful in-school and digital experiences that integrate life lessons into educational journeys. Leveraging films, events, research, training, and publications, we provide a dynamic learning environment. Our flagship initiative, School Cinema, uses cinematic storytelling and engaging activities to promote the holistic development of students in grades K-10.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Finance Manager to lead our finance function, oversee all financial operations, and support long-term business growth. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial planning, accounting, budgeting, and compliance, with proven experience in managing financial risks and ensuring the organization’s financial health. Excellent leadership and communication skills are essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the overall financial strategy, planning, and analysis for the organization.
• Prepare and oversee financial statements, reports, and forecasts to guide business decisions.
• Maintain transparency and integrity in all financial reporting.
• Develop and implement financial policies, systems, and internal controls to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Manage budgeting processes, cost control initiatives, and variance analysis.
• Oversee cash flow management, working capital, and investment planning.
• Liaise with auditors, banks, investors, and regulatory authorities.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, tax regulations, and internal controls.
• Provide strategic insights to the leadership team on financial performance and growth opportunities.
• Manage and mentor the finance and accounts team, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Partner cross-functionally with operations, sales, and other departments to align financial goals with organizational objectives.
• Support fundraising, capital allocation, and investor relations activities.
• Serve as a key point of contact for investors, auditors, legal counsel, and banks.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Strong knowledge of accounting standards, taxation, and corporate finance.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate financial data into actionable business insights.
• Proficient in financial software and ERP systems, with strong expertise in Tally and Microsoft Excel.(e.g., SAP, Oracle, Tally, QuickBooks).
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant (CA); Semi Qualified CA with relevant Experience; Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in finance and accounting, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership role.

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Ideally, you're a person who loves performing test automation, including the creation & management of test scenarios, documentation, and coding tests. You will help drive the design & building of E2E test automation and frameworks for our React. js-based hybrid mobile application. Moreover, you will find bottlenecks & thresholds in existing code with the help of automation tools.

Requirements:

• Prior experience with Appium or other automated mobile testing technologies.
• Knowledge of front-end/UI testing is highly desired.
• Hands-on experience on more of TestNG, JUnit, Spring Test, etc.
• Experience in working with Agile + DevOps' process management methodology.
• Experience in using one or more of Rest Assured, Super Test, Postman, and Swagger.
• Experience in using mocking frameworks.
• Experience in using API testing frameworks.
• Experience in Performance testing frameworks and the ability to design performance tests.
• Experience in some scripting languages, like Shell, Python, etc.

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 React developer. Must be comfortable to work in a small development team and have the initiative to work alone on smaller problem sets.

• Build frontend features using React & typescript
• Collaborate with the backend team on API requirements and contracts
• Analyse 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 technologies, 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:
• React, 
• Typescript,
• React-query, 
• GraphQL
• Charts & visualisations libraries
• Any ui components library skills
• Bonus skills:
• Next.js
• Server components
• CSS-in-Js

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 prioritise 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 organisation.  

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.

Enterprise Minds, with core focus on engineering products, automation and intelligence, partners customers on the trajectory towards increasing outcomes, relevance, and growth.

Harnessing the power of Data and the forces that define AI, Machine Learning and Data Science, we believe in institutionalizing go-to-market models and not just explore possibilities.

We believe in a customer-centric ethic without and people-centric paradigm within. With a strong sense of community, ownership, and collaboration our people work in a spirit of co-creation, co-innovation and co-development to engineer next-generation software products with the help of accelerators.

Through Communities we connect and attract talent that shares skills and expertise. Through Innovation Labs and global design studios we deliver creative solutions.
We create vertical isolated pods which has narrow but deep focus. We also create horizontal pods to collaborate and deliver sustainable outcomes.

We follow Agile methodologies to fail fast and deliver scalable and modular solutions. We constantly self-asses and realign to work with each customer in the most impactful manner.

Pre-requisites for the Role

1.Job ID-EMSP0120PS

1. Primary skill:

• Splunk Development and Administration

1. Secondary skill:

Python, Splunk DB connect, Visual Studio (C#), BitBucket, Kafka, Devops tools. 

1. 4. Years of Experience: 5-8 Years
2. Location:(Hybrid Model)-Pune
3. Position-1
4. Budget- - 5-6 years (Max up to 17 LPA) and 6-8 Years (Max up to 22 LPA)
5. NP- Immediate

Primary Role & Responsibility:

As a software engineer, your daily work involves technically challenging applications and projects where your code makes a direct contribution to the further development and upkeep of our software suite and to its application in projects.

You should be able to create Splunk dashboards, apps and should have good understanding of source interfaces for Splunk.

You should have idea of onboarding of data from different sources like JSON, XML, syslog, errorlog files.

As a software engineer, we expect much more from you than just the ability to design and develop good software. We find it important that you possess an inherent drive to get the best out of yourself every day, that you are inquisitive and that you are not intimidated by situations which require you to branch off from the beaten track. You work together with colleagues in a SCRUM team. In addition, you have regular contact with other software teams, software architects, testers and end users. Good communication skills are therefore extremely important, as well as the ability to think pro-actively and suggest possible improvements. This gives you every opportunity to contribute your personal input and grow and develop within the department.

The often complex functionality of the software includes business logic, controls for logistical transport, communication with external computer systems, reporting, data analysis and simulation. This functionality is spread across various components. You design, program and test the software based on a design concept and a set of requirements. In some cases, you will have to personally formulate these requirements together with the (end) users and / or internal stakeholders. Learn more about the Software modular stack

Desired Profile & Experience: Knowledge of Kafka and experience with Java

• Splunk Architecture, on-premise and cloud based deployment.
• IoT edge.

• Analytical skills and capabilities to understand how raw (unstructured) data needs to be transformed into processed information.

We are looking for a Software Engineer responsible for the development of backend APIs, services. Your primary focus will be the development of REST APIs and Unit-tests for code. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products are essential.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

Requirements:

• Sound knowledge in web application development using Node, JavaScript.
• Designing and creating RESTful APIs.
• 3-4 years of experience in node and javascript.
• Experience with databases like Elasticsearch, Redis.
• Experience using best coding practices, design patterns.
• Must have very good analytical skills.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Familiarity with continuous integration.
• Basic Knowledge in JIRA.
• Good to have familiarity with Docker.
• Good to have knowledge in Kafka, WSO2 Siddhi.

Responsibilities :

- Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance for one of the fastest-growing company in India

- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design

- Pair with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team

- Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap

- Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Mobile, UX etc.) on planning and execution

- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies

- The building of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Experience and Skills :

- 2+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Node.JS for large scale applications.

- Strong proficiency with JavaScript

- Understanding of Asynchronous Request handling techniques.

- Deep knowledge of Linux : CentOS, Fedora, or Ubuntu

- Data modeling experience in Relational and NoSQL databases(MONGO DB)

- Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

- Well versed with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation

- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services

- Experience troubleshooting server performance - memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks, etc.

- Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimizations, database interactions, network programming, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security and operability of systems

- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design

- Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with a good degree of predictability