Director - Financial Planning and Analysis

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.

Overview :

The Director - FP&A will play a significant role in ensuring the group achieves its financial objectives. This is a finance role with a high degree of visibility with senior stakeholders, including the CEO as well as the investor community.

Key responsibilities of the Role :

Drive long term planning exercise including preparing of the 5-year Business Plan

Run the full budgeting process of the company globally including P&Ls of various lines of business etc.

Ensure budgetary control through monthly reviews

Propose and drive revenue, margin or cost improvement initiatives along with functional and business heads

Prepare and present monthly and quarterly MIS to investors, lenders, management and other stakeholders

Support in fund raising exercises including commercial diligences along with the Corporate Development team

Lead improvement of organizational process and champion FP&A as one version of truth

Coordinate, analyze and report FP&A results for acquired companies and streamline their financial reporting

Clearly communicating the findings from the analysis to turn information into something actionable through reports, dashboards, and / or presentations.

Propose initiatives based on analysis and coordinate cross-functional teams to develop business segment strategies, execute key value creation (top and bottom line), and manage transformation initiatives

Drive discussions with product owners and / or business partners to understand the process, the problem, and then brainstorm solution scenarios.

Run special projects, e.g. valuation exercises, purchase price allocations, etc.

Implement system and processes to streamline group and LOB-level reporting

Lead a high-performance FP&A team

Qualifications :

12+ years of full time FP&A experience

Deep knowledge of the finance and accounting, especially Corporate Finance

Experience working with state-of-the-art analytic tools on real-world problems, preferably in consumer internet domain

Strong stakeholder management capabilities.

Bachelors in commerce or engineering

Masters in finance / MBA / CA Preferred

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.

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