Business Finance - Assistant Manager

Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across all regimes, enabling end-users to gain actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

• Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm.

• Push the boundaries with hands-on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement.

• Competitive incentives, galvanising workspace, blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup.
  

• Strong experience in Business Finance, Plant Finance, Cost Accounting, or FP&A within a manufacturing environment.

• Hands-on experience in P&L analysis, budgeting, forecasting, costing, and profitability analysis.

• Ability to analyze cost drivers, identify improvement opportunities, and provide business insights.

• Experience in product costing, plant costing, pricing support, and variance analysis.

• Strong collaboration skills with Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Commercial teams.

• Ability to prepare financial reports, dashboards, and support data-driven decision-making.
  

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and plant teams to provide financial insights that support operational and commercial decision-making.

• Support the management of Business P&L by tracking key performance drivers, analyzing variances, and highlighting risks and opportunities.

• Assist in the preparation of annual budgets, forecasts, and monthly financial reviews while monitoring budget adherence.

• Monitor manufacturing, operational, and overhead costs, and support cost optimization initiatives.

• Perform product and plant costing, including standard costing, cost roll-ups, variance analysis, and inventory valuation.

• Support product pricing by analyzing cost structures, margins, and profitability.

• Review customer and revenue agreements to assess financial impact, profitability, and commercial viability.

• Analyze production efficiencies, material consumption, and cost variances, and provide actionable recommendations.

• Prepare financial reports, dashboards, and business performance analyses for management review.

• Develop financial models and business cases to support new products, investments, and business initiatives.

• Collaborate with Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, and Commercial teams to improve profitability and working capital.

• Ensure compliance with financial policies, internal controls, and governance requirements.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives by enhancing financial reporting, costing, and planning processes.

  Qualifications
  

• CA / MBA (Finance) or equivalent professional qualification.

• 3–5 years of experience in Business Finance, Plant Finance, Cost Accounting, or FP&A within a manufacturing environment.

• Strong understanding of product costing, plant costing, budgeting, pricing, P&L analysis, and manufacturing finance.
  

  Preferred Qualities:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.

• Good commercial acumen with an understanding of business drivers.

• Proactive approach with ownership of deliverables.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and drive continuous improvements.
  Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru