Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across all regimes, enabling end-users to gain actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.
Why Us
- Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm.
- Push the boundaries with hands-on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement.
- Competitive incentives, galvanising workspace, blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup.
Ideal Candidate:
- Strong experience in Business Finance, Plant Finance, Cost Accounting, or FP&A within a manufacturing environment.
- Expertise in P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, costing, pricing, and profitability analysis.
- Ability to drive cost optimization and provide actionable financial insights to business leaders.
- Experience in business partnering with cross-functional teams including Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Commercial functions.
- Strong team leadership skills with the ability to develop and mentor finance professionals.
- Ability to drive financial governance, process improvements, and reporting excellence.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the key bridge between the business and finance teams, enabling informed financial and operational decision-making.
- Partner with business and plant leadership to drive profitability, operational efficiency, and financial performance.
- Own the Business P&L by monitoring key financial levers, identifying risks and opportunities, and recommending corrective actions.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and periodic financial reviews while ensuring effective budget controls.
- Drive cost management initiatives by monitoring manufacturing, operational, and overhead costs and identifying optimization opportunities.
- Lead product and plant costing activities, ensuring accurate standard costing, overhead allocation, inventory valuation, and cost analysis.
- Support product pricing decisions by evaluating cost structures, margins, and profitability to ensure commercial viability.
- Review and evaluate customer and revenue agreements from a financial perspective, assessing pricing, commercial terms, profitability, and associated risks.
- Analyze cost variances, material consumption, and production efficiencies to support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Develop financial models and business cases for new products, capital investments, and strategic initiatives.
- Prepare management reports, dashboards, and performance analyses for business and senior leadership.
- Collaborate with Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, and Commercial teams to improve profitability and working capital.
- Ensure strong financial governance, compliance, and internal controls across manufacturing operations.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the Business Finance team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Drive process improvements and standardization across finance processes and reporting.
Qualifications
- CA / MBA (Finance) or equivalent professional qualification.
- 6–8+ years of experience in Business Finance, Plant Finance, Cost Accounting, or FP&A within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of product costing, plant costing, pricing, budgeting, P&L management, and manufacturing finance.
- Proven experience leading and developing finance teams and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.
Preferred Qualities
- Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen and business orientation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to influence decision-making and drive change across functions.
- Proactive, ownership-driven mindset with focus on continuous improvement.
Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru
