Manager- Revenue Assurance

About the Team  

It’s no secret that Meesho is making massive leaps towards becoming the most used e-commerce app in India. Our Finance team has a key role to play in the company's success. Here’s your chance to be a part of the Meesho success story!😎

As Manager - Finance, you will be one among the 50+ professionals working in domains such as Financial Reporting, Finance Operations, Business Finance, Treasury Management and Taxation. The team consists of Chartered Accountants, Business experts and Engineers, who have previously worked for internationally renowned organizations.

Our team believes in working hard and partying harder. We organize team trivia nights, board game marathons, and other fun events to foster our team spirit 💥.

About the Role

As Manager - Revenue Assurance, you’ll give strategic direction to the revenue and receivables charter from the Finance team. On a typical day, you’ll be analyzing in-depth aspects of our revenue and collection lines and resolving issues by collaborating with business, product and finance stakeholders thereby avoiding financial leakage. 

You’ll be working with a team of finance and business rockstars who are obsessed with delivering best in class experience to all our stakeholders. You’ll also drive automation to improve workflow efficiencies leading to enhanced accuracy.

What you will do

• Working with ~$1Bn revenue, Meesho has a robust control framework to ensure that the company’s revenue booked is correct, complete and comprehensive. Manager needs to critically and continually validate the framework to ensure its relevance and effectiveness. 
• Lead the setting up of finance processes for new strategic revenue lines for the company by partnering with business POC and product stakeholders.
• Improve revenues and profitability through minimisation of leakages (carrying out RCA, collaborating with Product and Analysts and putting in required fixes through automation).
• Strengthen our revenue collection process and supervise remittance from external partners (logistic partner, payment gateways etc) to fix gaps, if any.
• Ensure timely closure of activities related to revenue recognition with utmost accuracy.
• Ensuring 3-way reconciliation between Revenue vs Collection vs agreed SLA’s.
• Drive improvements and develop automation in revenue related tasks & workflows.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure variations are addressed at the root cause level.
• Set up processes and controls for new revenue streams to ensure zero leakages.
• Prepare accounting memos on new revenue streams to ensure compliance with accounting standards.
• Prepare KPIs, variance analysis and highlight deviations, if any
• Give presentation and shares perspective on above areas with senior management.
• Independently handling statutory and internal audits for your field.
• Lead an experienced team of qualified finance professionals and ensure they grow, scale and deliver

What you will need

• Certification as a Chartered Accountant with 4-6 years of experience.
• Prior experience of working in a startup in a similar role involving Revenue Analysis or FP&A or Business Finance.
• Ability to understand and effectively apply technical accounting guidance for Revenue Recognition.
• Prior experience of handling a team.
• Ability to prioritize and meet tight deadlines.
• Articleship from Big 5’s / respectable mid-sized CA firm is preferable.
• Strong analytical and management skills, has a clear articulation.
• Willingness to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Can confidently interact with business stakeholders and take lead in solving issues.
• Does not hesitate to share their point of view in discussions.