Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

About Emeritus:

Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 50 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China. Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations. Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches has educated more than 250,000 individuals across 80+ countries.

Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of Eruditus Group, has more than 2,000 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. Following its $650 million Series E funding round in August 2021, the Company is valued at $3.2 billion, and is backed by Accel, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and Bertelsmann.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Independently analyse various aspects of Budgeting including Top-Down, Bottoms up and zero based budgeting
2. Periodic forecasting including monthly forecasting of business and accounting P&Ls, rolling forecast for P&L as well as cash flow
3. Reconciliations of Orders to Cash including reversals
4. Variance analysis of budgets vs actuals , budgets vs rolling forecasts and forecasts vs actuals
5. Building and Analysing Product P&Ls
6. PR/PO/GL dump analysis leading to costing insights that encourage zero based costing

Qualifications & Skillset Required:

1. Chartered Accountant (first attempt) with 2-3 years of experience
2. Excellent analytical skills, comfort with reconciliations and exposure to GL scrutiny
3. Handle coordination with multiple stakeholders and teams for budget and forecasting
4. Excellent working skills of Excel sheets/ Google sheets/ sharepoint and other resources
5. Comfort with SAP

Emeritus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

In press:

• https://inc42.com/buzz/edtech-startup-eruditus-fy23-revenue-crosses-inr-3000-cr-mark
• https://www.outlookbusiness.com/start-up/news/eruditus-secures-150-million-funding-for-ai-expansion-business-growth
• https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/edtech-unicorn-emeritus-story-now-a-harvard-business-school-case-study/articleshow/107648728.cms?from=mdr