Sales Manager

Organisation: A fintech neo-banking startup.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a seasoned finance professional to join our team as Finance Head. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in finance and accounting, with a proven track record of leadership in a startup environment.

Responsibilities:

● Develop financial forecasting models to aid in fundraising and inform strategic planning. Maintain and enhance financial models, including future projections

● Develop a financial strategy that supports the company's objectives, focusing on sustainable growth and profitability.

● Closely work with business team to evaluate product pricing, marketing campaigns, unit economics.

● Oversee the day-to-day financial operations, mentor our finance personnel, and ensure a seamless financial workflow.

● Manage treasury function and working capital planning

● Lead negotiations with partners and vendors to ensure beneficial deals, contributing

to the company's profitability and strategic objectives.

● Prepare comprehensive financial updates for internal stakeholders, investors, and tax

authorities, ensuring all reporting requirements are met.

● Ensure legal and regulatory compliance regarding all financial functions across

multiple jurisdictions, including the US, Canada and India .

● Manage fintech finance operations including reconciliation and fund flow

management.

Ideal Candidate:

● Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or a related field and Chartered Accountant.

● A minimum of 7-10 years of experience in finance, with at least 3-5 years in a senior financial leadership role, preferably in a startup.

● Excellent leadership and team management abilities with a track record of leading a lean team.

● Strong communication skills with the ability to present financial data to non-financial audiences.

● High level of integrity, confidentiality, and professionalism.

Job Description: Executive Assistant - Founder

Who are we?

Design Qandy is a luxury home décor brand. It’s nothing less than a revolution in the home décorindustry- where technology enables world class home interior design.

To know more about us, visit www.designqandy.com and https://instagram.com/designqandy

We are a lean team of high-performing go-getters who take ownership of their roles in the organization. Debates and discussions are an important part of our culture, and we encourage people to bring unique perspectives to the conversations.

Most importantly, we love solving problems. If you think you’re cut out from a similar cloth, we’d encourage you to apply for this role.

What would you be required to do?

• Supervise the office boy, housekeeping staff, and security to efficiently manage the Founder's calendar, scheduling appointments, meetings, and other events.
• Book travel & accommodations arrangements for the founder for all his trips and for any employees who are travelling for official purposes.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely and seamless scheduling while prioritizing urgent and important tasks.
• Draft correspondence, presentations, and reports to be sent on behalf of and signed by the Founder.
• Handle the Founder's payments, bank transactions, credit card payments and updations and related procedures and ensure all financial processes are accurately executed with the necessary approvals. Handle login credentials securely and discreetly.
• Manage all relevant documents related to banks, government agencies, and internal and external partners. Ensure accuracy, organization, and timely retrieval of documents as required.
• Monitor and renew all necessary memberships, such as club and hotel memberships, ensuring they are updated as needed.
• Assess and onboard new vendors based on their efficiency and quality standards for all official tasks along with Admin
• Develop a fair understanding of the Founder's day to day requirements, as well as their family business, and proactively plan and execute tasks to meet those needs.
• Remind the Founder of upcoming urgent and important meetings and tasks, on a daily basis. Continuously coordinate with stakeholders to ensure the timely completion of tasks.
• Perform tasks that will free up the Founder’s time like ordering books, returning any materials, sending festive gifts and greetings to our stakeholders for Diwali,
• Other duties, consistent with skills and experience, as directed by the Founder.

What skills we are looking for?

• Masters/bachelor in finance, commerce or related field preferred, or any other specialization
• Proven record of more than 5 years’ work experience being EA to a CXO/ founder
• Excellent MS Office knowledge
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with office gadgets and scheduling applications (e.g., e-calendars, outlook, and print machines)
• Maintain Discretion and confidentiality for all matters relating to the founder
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work independently and proactively in a fast-paced environment

Skills needed?

• Work experience as an Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant or similar role more than 5 years
• Excellent proficiency in verbal and written communication.
• Proactive and detail-oriented individual with multitasking skills

• Participating in design discussions, documentation, and development with the team as needed.
• Working closely with the product manager for deliverables and milestones identification.
• Reporting to technical lead/manager on daily activities planned, expected deliverables, and reports as defined for the project.
• Participating in requirement gatherings as required.

• At least 3 years of proven experience of working as a software developer, out of which at least 2 years must be spent in a solid back end role
• Be able to write clean, maintainable code which others can work on
• Familiarity with RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases, web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Experience in taking a problem to a product solution (module/product) from scratch - a proven record of shipping on time and budget
• You've worked with startups before and understand the fast-paced, dynamic nature of work
• People with high attention to detail, flexible and focused on solutions, organized and self-sufficient, prioritize learning and growth and will enjoy working with a team usually tend to excel in this role

• Design and driving learning strategy and charter for company, inline with business priorities.
• Provide a responsive, effective and efficient centralized- Learning and Development (L&D) function within the newly established Centre of Excellence (CoE) providing a range of Learning and Development services across functions.
• Foster a culture of continuous-learning through various interventions, and providing access to curated, relevant content to the team.
• The incumbent will aggregate and support the delivery of the L&D strategy and the development of the L&D offerings across company
• Design and execute learning journeys for specific cohorts such as high potentials, leadership, any identified critical roles/functions
• Ownership of associated metrics and data for learning & development, and talent processes
• Working in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the learning needs of company.
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