Finance Associate

Finance Associate — FP&A & Financial Reporting

Company: [Stealth Startup] · Business & Finance Consulting Location: Bengaluru, India (On-site) Type: Full-time

About Us

We're a modern consulting practice built by industry professionals, specializing in finance and accounting support for SaaS startups. Our portfolio spans companies operating across India, the US, Singapore, and Europe. We care about doing excellent work — and we're looking for sharp, curious people to help us keep raising the bar.

The Role

As a Finance Associate, you'll help run the books and financial operations for a global portfolio of SaaS startups, with significant exposure to US-based companies (QuickBooks) alongside Indian entity compliance. The role is structured as a progressive learning journey — you'll move from core accounting into taxation, reporting, and eventually strategic advisory work like valuations, ESOP design, and due diligence.

This is a hands-on seat for someone who wants deep, wide exposure to how startups are actually run financially — not a narrow, single-function role.

What You'll Do

Bookkeeping & accounting

• Record and maintain transactions across QuickBooks, Zoho Books, and Tally
• Handle day-to-day accounting of invoices, and monitor revenue and expenses from an FP&A perspective
• Perform reconciliations, including bank and tax reconciliations

Tax & compliance

• Compute income and assist with filing ITRs, ROC returns, and GSTRs
• Support tax planning, structuring, and optimization

Financial planning, analysis & reporting

• Assist with forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis
• Prepare MIS reports for senior management
• Contribute to financial statements, including notes to accounts
• Prepare proforma financials and consolidations
• Project cash flows and working-capital needs

Advisory & special projects

• Carry out valuations using DCF and other methods
• Develop and implement ESOP policies
• Support due diligence activities
• Draft SOPs and run risk assessments and process audits to detect revenue leakage and optimize expenses

What We're Looking For

• Passed CA (Intermediate) or equivalent
• Hands-on experience with US accounting / US GAAP — this is central to the role
• Strong foundational knowledge of accounting and taxation
• Working knowledge of QuickBooks
• Clarity in first principles and financial fundamentals
• Eagerness to learn, unlearn, and adapt to new knowledge
• Tech-savvy, with a genuine interest in leveraging modern tools and software
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• A proactive approach and a real appetite for solving complex problems

Why Join

You'll grow with a dynamic team that empowers SaaS startups and is redefining what consulting looks like. Expect unusually broad exposure across accounting, tax, FP&A, and strategic finance — the kind of range that's hard to find early in a career.