Manager, Business Finance, Finance

About The/Nudge

The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals, and youth across rural development, agriculture, skilling, and economic inclusion, in partnership with 15+ central and state governments.

Our economic inclusion journey towards serving 25 million Indians spans 10 states and currently reaches over 1.5 million people. Through our incubator, accelerator, and grand challenges, we have supported 200+ social entrepreneurs, including Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees, Earthshot Prize winners, and nationally recognized changemakers.

Founded with the support of 130+ eminent philanthropists, 40+ corporates, and 15+ foundations, The/Nudge is working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime.

At The/Nudge You Will
• Drive strategic and operational budgeting, forecasting, and monitoring processes across the organization
• Manage expense allocations across the programs and donor projects. Ensure error-free and timely expense reporting to the partner management team within deadlines across a pool of donors
• Own end to end financials of the donor grant cycle – from budgeting to forecasts to utilization reporting to donor audits
• Prepare project level expense projections in tandem with the respective internal stakeholders
• Lead development and provision of routine and ad-hoc analytic reports to the senior management team and to the respective program leads
• Run variance analysis and provide insights to the respective program/function leads. Ensure reports contribute to business insights and decision-making
• Drive strong partnership with accounting and business teams and contribute to timely and accurate book closing
• Interact with different stakeholders including senior leadership on a regular basis
• Own end to end IT applications related to finance within the organization

Apply If You Have
• A bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Commerce, or related fields(MBA or CA qualification would be preferred but not mandatory)
• An overall work experience of 8-12 years of relevant experience in Business Finance, Accounting, Analytics or Strategy & Operations
• The willingness to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment and deal with ambiguity.
• Strong analytical skills and detail-oriented
• High proficiency in MS Excel/Google Sheets
• Comfort in working with diverse stakeholders
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort in working with some degree of ambiguity and the absence of perfect information
• Working knowledge of Tally/other ERPs & Power BI

What’s in it for you?

Own your growth: An impact-led learning environment encourages Nudgesters to invest in their learning and capacity building needs through initiatives and policies, including L&D wallet, individual development plan and internal role change opportunities.

Find your tribe: Our hiring philosophy emphasises intent, attitude, smarts and skills, in that order, to build a cohesive environment for Nudgesters. The organisation is committed to curating people-centric policies, enhancing how employees experience life at The/Nudge.

Take big bets: Organisational initiatives are intended to facilitate Nudgesters with a view to the big picture, illustrated by our impact across 50000+ households, 15+ governments, 200+ social enterprises and Charcha: India’s largest social sector convening forum.

Make it happen: A product-based approach in an action-biased environment empowers Nudgesters to implement audacious plans. Driven to fail fast, we endeavour to optimise resources in favour of programs that align with our scale ambition.

You can learn more about what we do and how we do it through this deck.

We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, ****** orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply.