JD Manager, FinOps (Schools)
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Role snapshot
Manager – FinOps (Schools)
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Role purpose
Own the financial health and control of our schools, from the deal table to day-to-day running. You will check the numbers of schools we plan to take over or partner with, and then make sure every operating school’s collections, payments, expenses and liabilities are tracked, reconciled and within budget.
Key responsibilities
1. Financial due diligence of schools
- Review audited financials, ITRs, bank statements and fee registers of target schools and trusts for the last 3 years.
- Validate student strength against fee collection; flag gaps, concessions and dues.
- Identify liabilities: loans, creditor dues, statutory dues (PF, ESI, TDS, GST), staff salary arrears and pending litigation with a money impact.
- Prepare the DD report and a clear summary of red flags, adjustments and deal-value impact for management.
2. Accounts reconciliation
- Monthly bank, fee-collection and payment-gateway reconciliation for each school.
- Reconcile vendor and landlord ledgers, advances and security deposits.
- Close open items within the month and keep a clean audit trail.
3. Collections, payments and liabilities tracking
- Track fee collections against fee demand by school, grade and instalment; drive follow-up on overdues with school teams.
- Maintain a payables calendar for rent/lease, MSA payments, salaries, vendors and statutory dues; ensure nothing is paid late or twice.
- Keep a live liability register per school, including takeover-related commitments and creditor payouts.
4. School financial operations
- Set up and run finance processes at new and taken-over schools: chart of accounts, approval limits, petty cash, fee receipting.
- Work with school principals and admin heads on day-to-day finance questions.
- Support statutory, internal and trust audits; coordinate with auditors and the central finance team.
5. Budget tracking
- Prepare annual budgets for each school with the school and Growth teams.
- Publish a monthly budget-vs-actual report with short notes on major variances.
- Track capex for new campuses (fit-outs, furniture, IT, branding) against approved budgets.
6. Expense oversight
- Review and approve expenses against policy and budget before payment.
- Spot leakages, duplicate bills and out-of-policy spends; recommend cost controls.
- Run periodic expense reviews with school heads and present findings to management.
7. Team leadership
- Supervise the FinOps Executives: allocate work, review reconciliations and payment files, and sign off.
- Train the Executives and school admin teams on finance processes and controls.
How success is measured
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Expenses
Audit
Who we are looking for
Must have
- Chartered Accountant with 2–4 years post-qualification experience (or CA Inter with 3–5 years of strong, relevant work).
- Hands-on experience in financial due diligence, transaction support or statutory/internal audit.
- Strong working knowledge of Tally/ERP, Excel (pivots, lookups, basic modelling) and GST, TDS, PF and ESI compliance.
- Comfortable reading trust and society accounts, not only company accounts.
Good to have
- Experience in K-12 education, multi-branch retail, healthcare or any multi-unit business.
- Exposure to school takeovers, lease/MSA structures or fee-based businesses.
- Big 4 or mid-size CA firm background in audit or advisory.
Personal attributes
- Detail-oriented but able to give a clear yes/no view to management.
- Willing to travel to schools and work directly with school teams.
- Firm on controls, practical on process.
