Manager - Finance

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 80 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 300,000 individuals across 80+ countries.

Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of Eruditus Group, has more than 1,800 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. The company is backed by prominent investors including Accel, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and Bertelsmann.
Key Role and Responsibilities:
• Ensure accurate and timely preparation of financial statements.
• Creation of Transfer pricing workings for transfers between sister entities.
• Managing along with Bank payments & AP invoice booking -AP and Payroll for Indian entity.
• Coordinate with multiple teams internally (various LOBs / program owners) for AP and Taxes related activities.
• Participation in statutory audits, due diligences, internal audits in timely manner.
• Responsible for monthly book closing (includes BRS, invoice booking, accruals, capitalization etc).
• Managing the FAR(Fixed Asset register) with also need to do the reconciliation with books of accounts.
• Review the Vendor ledger's and aging on monthly basis.
• Preparation of Cash flow projection.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the company Financial statement
• Develop and implement financial policies and procedures to ensure effective internal control
• Evaluate and enhance financial systems and processed to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Manage the end-to-end accounts payable process, including invoice processing, payment runs, and vendor reconciliations.
• Ensure timely and accurate processing of all AP transactions.
• Drive process improvements and automation to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
Qualification & Requirements:
• CA mandatory
• 3-5 years post qualification, in a corporate environment, preferably with global exposure.
• Experience in start-ups which have achieved scale, working in technology enabled space is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to handle coordination with multiple internal / external teams.
• Knowledge of IndAS/ IFRS is a must.
• Excellent working skills of MS – office (word, excel, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of ERP environment (specifically SAP, COUPA, DarwinBox) will be an added plus.

In Press:
• emeritus harvard business school: Edtech unicorn Emeritus story now a Harvard Business School case study - The Economic Times (indiatimes.com)