[Hiring] Financial Analyst @Contour Education

Role Description

This is a remote position.

You're Contour's first Financial Analyst, and the senior of the first two India-based seats in group finance, alongside an Accountant who runs the transactional side. You own the analytical layer:

• The monthly reporting leadership reads
• The weekly scorecard the business runs on
• Budget vs actual tracking
• The analysis behind decisions

You report to the Financial Controller, who owns the budgeting and forecasting, statutory reporting, management reporting, tax, and final sign-off of all financial data.

Two things separate a strong hire here from a competent one:

• Proactive by instinct: when a number moves, you find out why, form a view, and put a recommendation in front of the people who can act on it.
• Build reporting to run itself, so your hours go into analysis, not copy-paste.

This analytical work has so far been carried alongside other jobs, not owned by one person. You change that:

• By month three, you own the monthly reporting cycle
• The weekly leadership scorecard is live with agreed definitions and targets vs budget
• Budget vs actual reporting is standing
• At least one of your recommendations has been acted on

Where the work lives:

• Xero: actuals live here, so your reporting starts from, and ties back to, the ledger.
• Google Sheets: the working medium for models, budgets, and reporting packs.
• HubSpot and Stripe: enrolment and payment data live here.
• AI tools: Claude and similar are part of how this team works.
• monday.com: task status moves here.

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years in an FP&A, finance analyst, MIS, or business analyst role, including management reporting you built or ran yourself rather than inherited.
• Advanced Google Sheets or Excel: you can build a model, a variance analysis, and a clean reporting layout from a blank sheet.
• Comfort pulling data out of the systems it lives in (an accounting platform, a CRM, a payments platform) and joining it into one picture that agrees with itself.
• AI tools as a working habit: you already use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or similar to speed up analysis and build reporting.
• Sharp written English: variance commentary or a recommendation has to land right the first time, in writing.
• Comfortable working across the India and Australia time difference.

Requirements

• Hands-on Xero, or another cloud accounting platform, on the reporting side.
• Dashboards you built in Power BI or Looker Studio that other people actually used.
• EdTech, education services, or another B2C business with recurring or instalment revenue.

Benefits

• Fully remote, anywhere in India.
• Compensation is competitive and benchmarked to the role and your experience.
• From application to offer: a short screen, a technical assessment, a culture conversation with our People team, and a final interview with the Financial Controller, in about four weeks.