Finance Manager

Title: Finance Manager 

Location: Navi Mumbai, India

Division: Finance

• Are you torn between the excitement of start-ups and the stability of corporate life?
• Do you have a finance background, a passion for technology-driven change, and the ability to collaborate across functions?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

ABOUT US

This portfolio business is at the forefront of digital transformation and innovation in the public services sector. With over two decades of experience, we have established ourselves as a trusted partner for governments, local authorities, and organisations nationwide. Our mission is to empower our clients to deliver exceptional public services by harnessing the full potential of technology and data.

ABOUT BLENHEIM CHALCOT

As part of the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio, we benefit from the expertise, infrastructure, and scale of the leading global venture builder. With over 25 years of experience creating and growing SaaS businesses powered by Generative AI, Blenheim Chalcot has built 60+ ventures across sectors such as financial services, education, health, and marketing. Their global ecosystem—including Scale Space in London, the Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai, and a go-to-market base in Austin—enables us to access world-class talent, tools, and support to accelerate our growth and build a market-leading business.

OUR VALUES

• Partnership: We become one team and family with organisations, helping them to navigate change and stay agile.
• Integrity: Our people really care, going beyond the brief to make change happen for organisations and citizens.
• Innovation: We bring together the right technologies and services to design solutions that work.
• Passion: We are passionate about - and dedicated to - public services and improving people’s lives.

THE ROLE

This role is an excellent platform for experienced professionals to take their career to the next level and an opportunity unlikely to be found anywhere else. You will play a key role in establishing and developing a Centre of Excellence to drive efficiency, standardisation, and automation across the business, working in close collaboration with various teams in Navi Mumbai and London.

Key responsibilities

The Finance Manage is a vital role within Agilisys and this role will lead end-to-end processes in cash flow forecasting, P2P, O2C, and R2R. You will gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced and progressive environment, where you will support us in building our mission to empower our clients to deliver exceptional public services by harnessing the full potential of technology and data.

The successful Finance Manager will play a vital role in leading and shaping the Finance department to:

• Lead workshops with stakeholders to understand key finance processes, risks, gaps, and inefficiencies across people, process, technology, data, and internal controls.
• Understand and document current processes, pain points, and stakeholder feedback via process flow diagrams.
• Drive process improvement and implement more robust financial controls by leveraging emerging technologies such as Generative AI.
• Act as the key liaison between finance and other departments to guarantee seamless integration.
• Lead the integration of AI technologies into operations, driving innovation and competitive advantage.
• Understand how to assess, manage, and report on pricing, gross margin, and burn rates.
• Play a significant role in defining and developing company strategy, ensuring team goals are aligned with broader business objectives, and strategically prioritize actions.
• Build team skills, visualize career paths, proactively identify skills gaps, and suggest additional training/skill development across the organization.
• Conduct comprehensive data analysis independently, mentor others in data literacy, and promote the use of Gen AI tools for various data-related tasks.
• Establish company growth strategy focusing on long-term sustainability and market leadership.
• Lead corporate finance decisions to drive growth and ensure competitive advantage.
• Set vision and strategic direction, prioritise values, create systems and practices supporting these principles.
• Drive company-wide initiatives enhancing data-driven decision-making and lead the organisation in embracing data and Gen AI tools for continuous improvement and innovation.

Opportunity

This role is an excellent platform for experienced professionals to take their career to the next level. You will play a key role in establishing and developing a Centre of Excellence to drive efficiency, standardisation, and automation across the group, working in close collaboration with various teams in Navi Mumbai and London.

ABOUT YOU

The ideal candidate will have a track record in delivering results while embracing change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role.

The Ideal Candidate

• ACCA/CIMA qualified with experience working within large, more complex businesses.
• Strong understanding of finance processes and systems and experience in implementing new systems and processes.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including professional written and spoken English.
• Strong practical analytical skills, ability to effectively interpret, summarise, and document data.
• Self-starter who is able to manage multiple workstreams with minimal oversight.
• Prior management and direct supervisory experience in a team environment.
• Promotes resilience and inclusivity, encourages innovation, manages conflict, trains and empowers others.
• Leads successful projects, makes effective decisions, manages different perspectives, designs communication processes.
• Fosters curiosity and quality work, leads successful client relationships, manages performance reviews, communicates bad news thoughtfully.
• Brings teams together to explore new ways of working, anticipates and debugs issues, makes effective decisions, builds a great team culture.
• Maintains an open-minded approach, fosters resilience and inclusivity, leads complex projects with multiple stakeholders, makes effective decisions.

PROCESS

We have a rigorous recruitment process, which we use for all our roles to ensure we attract the very best talent. Please note we are office-based which requires our colleagues to be together in the office 5 days a week with flexibility around personal commitments, interests, and obligations. This ensures we have the opportunity to continuously collaborate with the whole portfolio to stay connected and grow our community.