Financial Analyst

About UrbanPiper:
UrbanPiper is a SaaS platform powering the digital backbone of restaurants worldwide — headquartered in INDIA with subsidiaries in the UAE, UK, and US. We work with thousands of brands across four jurisdictions, and our finance function runs lean, deliberate, and increasingly automated.
What This Role Actually Is:
This is an execution-first role. You'll spend your first six months mastering UrbanPiper's four-entity close cycle and owning the variance MIS that leadership relies on every month. As you earn trust through reliable delivery, the role grows into business analytics and — for the right person — contributes to the internal finance tools we're building.
This is not a strategy seat or a rotation program. It's a builder's seat with a clear path forward, on a small finance team where you'll have unusually high ownership and access for your level of experience.
What You'll Do:
FP&A Core (your seat, from Day 1)

• Support AOP construction and quarterly refresh — building, sanity-checking, partnering with Regional heads on assumptions
• Own variance analysis (actuals vs budget vs prior period) with clear written commentary on drivers, risks, and opportunities — not just numbers, the story behind them
• Maintain and enhance MIS dashboards in Google Sheets for monthly leadership reviews
• Investor reporting and data-room support — questionnaires, monthly/quarterly MIS, board pack inputs, FEMA and regulatory queries
• Run ad-hoc financial analysis for management asks and one-off leadership questions

Growth Path Within the Role:
The role is sequenced deliberately. Each phase is earned through performance, not promised on day one — and that's by design.
Phase 2 (Months 3–6): Business Analytics

• SaaS metric ownership — MRR/ARR walks, NRR, GRR, churn, cohort analysis
• Geographic P&L splits and per-customer / per-product profitability
• Business partnering with Regional heads — bringing a finance lens to business reviews

Phase 3 (Months 6+): Data & Tooling
For the curious: contribute to Atlance, UrbanPiper's internal finance analytics platform built in SQL, Python, and React. Work alongside the Finance Manager on dashboards, queries, and module design. This is optional, available only if you want it, and is a genuine differentiator for finance careers in modern SaaS.
What You Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor's degree minimum; CA, CMA, MBA Finance, or equivalent quantitative discipline preferred
• 1–3 years of relevant finance experience — accounting, FP&A, audit, or similar
• Strong Excel and Google Sheets — comfortable with lookups, pivots, model-building, dynamic ranges
• Automation-first mindset — comfort with SQL, Python, or scripting; you'll be expected to remove repetitive work, not just complete it
• Solid grasp of P&L mechanics, budget-vs-actuals discipline, and accrual-basis thinking
• Sharp attention to detail and the discipline to double-check your own work
• Clear written communication — variance commentary is half-numbers, half-prose
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to make progress without perfect instructions
• Genuine curiosity about why numbers move, not just what they say

What Sets You Apart:

• Exposure to SaaS metrics and recurring-revenue accounting
• Familiarity with Zoho Books, Stripe, Salesforce, Pazy, or Ramp
• Multi-entity, multi-currency accounting experience
• Prior experience in a small finance team or startup environment