Finance Lead

About The Role

Uniseoul is looking for a Finance Lead who can take ownership of day-to-day finance operations and ensure strong compliance, reporting, and control as we scale. This role will work closely with leadership and external finance partners (including Big 4 teams like Deloitte) and should be comfortable in a startup environment with fundraising exposure.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Operations & Closures
• Manage monthly closing activities: accruals, provisions, reconciliations, and finalization of MIS.
• Own P&L, Balance Sheet, cash flow tracking and explain variances vs plan/budget.
• Maintain strong controls across AP/AR, bank reconciliations, vendor payments, and expense governance.
• External Partner & Compliance Management (Big 4)
• Coordinate with Big 4 finance partners for audits, reviews, and advisory workstreams.
• Drive timely compliance and filings: GST, TDS, PF/ESI (if applicable), income tax, and statutory requirements via consultants.
• Ensure documentation readiness for audits, tax assessments, and due diligence.
• Fundraising & Investor Readiness
• Support fundraising processes: data room preparation, financial schedules, and due diligence coordination.
• Prepare investor/MIS packs with insights on revenue, margins, opex, working capital, and cash runway.
• Assist leadership in building financial narratives and KPIs relevant to startup investors.
• Business Finance & Decision Support
• Partner with teams to improve unit economics: gross margin, category margin, UPT, discounting impact, and store-level profitability.
• Build and maintain budgets, forecasts, and scenario planning (base / aggressive / conservative).
• Drive working capital discipline: inventory, vendor cycles, and cash planning.
• Systems, Process & Controls
• Improve finance processes through SOPs, maker-checker controls, and automation where possible.
• Work with tools like Tally/Zoho/Busy/QuickBooks, Excel/Google Sheets; bonus if you’ve handled POS/ERP integrations.
• Maintain a clean finance structure for multi-location retail operations (stores + warehouse + ecommerce)
  
  

• 4–5 years of finance experience (startup preferred).
• Must have worked in a startup that has raised funds (Seed/Pre-Series A/Series A etc.) and understands investor expectations.
• Experience working with Big 4 finance partners, specifically comfort coordinating with Deloitte teams.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of GST, TDS, basic accounting, reconciliations, and monthly MIS.
• Advanced Excel/Sheets skills (pivots, lookups, dashboards; comfort with large datasets). Good-to-Have (Added)
• Prior experience in retail / D2C / ecommerce / omnichannel businesses.
• Exposure to inventory accounting, store-level P&Ls, and margin analysis.
• Experience preparing data rooms and managing due diligence checklists.
• CA Inter / MBA Finance / similar is a plus (not mandatory if performance is strong).