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.

Why Us?

• 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.
  

  Ideal Candidate:

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

• Expertise in P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, costing, pricing, and profitability analysis.

• Ability to drive cost optimization and provide actionable financial insights to business leaders.

• Experience in business partnering with cross-functional teams including Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Commercial functions.

• Strong team leadership skills with the ability to develop and mentor finance professionals.

• Ability to drive financial governance, process improvements, and reporting excellence.
  

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the key bridge between the business and finance teams, enabling informed financial and operational decision-making.

• Partner with business and plant leadership to drive profitability, operational efficiency, and financial performance.

• Own the Business P&L by monitoring key financial levers, identifying risks and opportunities, and recommending corrective actions.

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and periodic financial reviews while ensuring effective budget controls.

• Drive cost management initiatives by monitoring manufacturing, operational, and overhead costs and identifying optimization opportunities.

• Lead product and plant costing activities, ensuring accurate standard costing, overhead allocation, inventory valuation, and cost analysis.

• Support product pricing decisions by evaluating cost structures, margins, and profitability to ensure commercial viability.

• Review and evaluate customer and revenue agreements from a financial perspective, assessing pricing, commercial terms, profitability, and associated risks.

• Analyze cost variances, material consumption, and production efficiencies to support continuous improvement initiatives.

• Develop financial models and business cases for new products, capital investments, and strategic initiatives.

• Prepare management reports, dashboards, and performance analyses for business and senior leadership.

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

• Ensure strong financial governance, compliance, and internal controls across manufacturing operations.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Business Finance team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Drive process improvements and standardization across finance processes and reporting.

Qualifications:

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

• 6–8+ years of experience in Business Finance, Plant Finance, Cost Accounting, or FP&A within a manufacturing environment.

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

• Proven experience leading and developing finance teams and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.

Preferred Qualities:

• Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen and business orientation.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Ability to influence decision-making and drive change across functions.

• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset with focus on continuous improvement.

 Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru