Business Finance - FP&A Design

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About Role “Money is Metrics” For an actively growing org, money is an investment. Building financial models and management systems that maximize the conversion of expenses into investments , especially whether an endeavour was an expense or a fruitful investment is known only in “ hindsight ”. While modelling sales is tangible, the key is in the ability to model & metricize intangible value that’s created within the org in monetary terms - be it in IP, Development, Branding or Operations, and weave it into the price of a unit sale. Essentially, mapping the chain-reaction/ butterfly effect of value across business functions within the Org so that we can “Automate building of an Org, not just operating it”. Role Requirements: Financial Modelling (This is a design role not just FP&A) Model the Operations of the organization into Product Pricing and derive Revenue goals. Derive and model investment projections translating back from the Revenue goals, by mapping the functioning of each department, its current capacity, nature & complexity of its operation & its efficiency, by working with the respective department heads. Mapping value movement across departments and designing financial indicators for cost centres Build Indicators of Performance into all business functions, provide Analysis of Performance & design a Credit System for budget requisitions. Participate and assist in deriving the KPI across business functions & Model the Budgets, Compensation & Incentivization schemes Provide Financial Performance assessments for Appraisal and Budget approvals. For variable pay – design schemes for commissions, including the Non-sales business functions by interlinking the cross-departmental performance metrics Train and onboard non-financial departmental heads into Cost & Budget oriented thinking. Good to have experience and practice with: Designed if not supported in Performance appraisals, budget allocation & approval, commission computation, and modelling revenue targets. Business Analysis & Financial Analysis - Strong with Financial research. Experienced heavy International Hardware RnD setups and its Product Lifecycles Other: Business Insight, Excel proficiency, Accounting Principles, P&L sheet preparation, valuation report making, Financial report making, Financial Audit, Company Secretary coordination Compensation Structure Base: will be based on the number of skillset requirements met & indicative capability to take ownership of responsibilities, initiatives taken & size of budget managed into earnings for the company. + Variables: Tied to individual performance delivery, team and toolchain setup and derisking the role through process & documentation setups + Bonuses: Tied to Initiative taken within CynLr, delivering outcomes leading to sustainable positive impact to the org (cost-saving, opportunity creation, value increase etc.) About CynLr CynLr is a VC-funded fundamental technology startup, building both HW & SW Platform that enables industrial robots specifically to perceive, learn and manipulate even unfamiliar objects in the factory floor to your household (to start with) – we narrow this and call it Visual Object Intelligence. Essentially, we hope to build the missing block that is currently limiting robots from replacing the use of human hands in every task performed –Eventually targeting to create a digital marketplace for recipes of Tasks and Objects. A 60-member team distributed across Switzerland, India & US – requiring to manage 400+ supply chain partners spread across 16 countries, with value addition & manufacturing across multiple countries - for a company of such small size, we need to deal with “every variety of business complexity” that a large MNC goes through – just not the scale and volumes yet. Show more Show less