About The Role
Uniseoul is looking for a Finance Lead who can take ownership of day-to-day finance operations and ensure strong compliance, reporting, and control as we scale. This role will work closely with leadership and external finance partners (including Big 4 teams like Deloitte) and should be comfortable in a startup environment with fundraising exposure.
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Operations & Closures
- Manage monthly closing activities: accruals, provisions, reconciliations, and finalization of MIS.
- Own P&L, Balance Sheet, cash flow tracking and explain variances vs plan/budget.
- Maintain strong controls across AP/AR, bank reconciliations, vendor payments, and expense governance.
- External Partner & Compliance Management (Big 4)
- Coordinate with Big 4 finance partners for audits, reviews, and advisory workstreams.
- Drive timely compliance and filings: GST, TDS, PF/ESI (if applicable), income tax, and statutory requirements via consultants.
- Ensure documentation readiness for audits, tax assessments, and due diligence.
- Fundraising & Investor Readiness
- Support fundraising processes: data room preparation, financial schedules, and due diligence coordination.
- Prepare investor/MIS packs with insights on revenue, margins, opex, working capital, and cash runway.
- Assist leadership in building financial narratives and KPIs relevant to startup investors.
- Business Finance & Decision Support
- Partner with teams to improve unit economics: gross margin, category margin, UPT, discounting impact, and store-level profitability.
- Build and maintain budgets, forecasts, and scenario planning (base / aggressive / conservative).
- Drive working capital discipline: inventory, vendor cycles, and cash planning.
- Systems, Process & Controls
- Improve finance processes through SOPs, maker-checker controls, and automation where possible.
- Work with tools like Tally/Zoho/Busy/QuickBooks, Excel/Google Sheets; bonus if you've handled POS/ERP integrations.
- Maintain a clean finance structure for multi-location retail operations (stores + warehouse + ecommerce)
Must-Have Requirements
- 45 years of finance experience (startup preferred).
- Must have worked in a startup that has raised funds (Seed/Pre-Series A/Series A etc.) and understands investor expectations.
- Experience working with Big 4 finance partners, specifically comfort coordinating with Deloitte teams.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of GST, TDS, basic accounting, reconciliations, and monthly MIS.
- Advanced Excel/Sheets skills (pivots, lookups, dashboards; comfort with large datasets). Good-to-Have (Added)
- Prior experience in retail / D2C / ecommerce / omnichannel businesses.
- Exposure to inventory accounting, store-level P&Ls, and margin analysis.
- Experience preparing data rooms and managing due diligence checklists.
- CA Inter / MBA Finance / similar is a plus (not mandatory if performance is strong).
