Senior Manager - Business Finance

Swiggy is India’s leading on-demand delivery platform with a tech-first approach to logistics and a solution-first approach to consumer demands. With a presence in 500+ cities across India, partnerships with hundreds of thousands of restaurants, an employee base of over 5000, a 2 lakh+ strong independent fleet of Delivery Executives, we deliver unparalleled convenience driven by continuous innovation. Built on the back of robust ML technology and fueled by terabytes of data processed every day, Swiggy offers a fast, seamless and reliable delivery experience for millions of customers across India.

About Swiggy Instamart:

Swiggy Instamart, is building the convenience grocery segment in India. We offer more than 30000 + products to our customers within 10-15 mins. We are committed to delivering unparalleled convenience by making grocery shopping instant and delightful. Instamart operates across 100+ cities in India and continues to expand rapidly, redefining how India shops.

Role Overview:

The Senior Manager – Business Finance will serve as a strategic finance partner to the business, driving sustainable revenue growth and profitability through financial insights, commercial decision support, and data-driven problem solving. The role will partner closely with Category, Marketing, Product, Supply, Expansion, and Leadership teams to shape business strategy, evaluate growth opportunities, optimize commercial investments, and improve overall business performance.

The ideal candidate combines strong financial acumen with first-principles thinking, structured problem-solving, and the ability to influence business decisions in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Business Growth & Strategy

• Identify and evaluate key revenue drivers, customer trends, and commercial levers to unlock sustainable business growth
• Assess the performance of business initiatives, pilots, and experiments, providing recommendations on scalability and optimization
• Build financial models to evaluate pricing strategies, promotional investments, customer acquisition initiatives, and monetization opportunities
• Perform scenario planning and sensitivity analyses to support strategic planning and investment decisions
• Continuously monitor business performance to identify emerging opportunities and risks impacting growth

2. Business Insights & Decision Support

• Build scalable reporting frameworks and dashboards to provide real-time visibility into business performance
• Conduct deep-dive analyses across customer acquisition, retention, order frequency, contribution margins, category performance, and unit economics
• Translate complex data sets into clear, actionable insights that influence strategic priorities
• Define and monitor key business and financial KPIs to measure the success of strategic initiatives
• Foster a culture of data-driven decision-making through analytical rigor and structured problem-solving

3. Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range financial planning for business verticals
• Own financial performance reviews by tracking actuals against plans and identifying key business drivers through variance analysis
• Drive weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews with senior leadership, highlighting financial performance, risks, and growth opportunities
• Establish performance benchmarks and recommend actions to improve business outcomes and operational efficiency

4. Reporting & Compliance

• Ensure timely, accurate MIS, financial reporting, and business dashboards
• Drive reporting automation and process improvements to enhance efficiency, scalability, and data accuracy
• Strengthen financial governance through robust controls, process standardization, and audit readiness

Must-Have

• Minimum 4 years of experience in Business Finance or FP&A
• Master’s in business (Finance/Strategy) or CA preferred
• First-principles thinking: building hypotheses of factors influencing target metric, learnings from past successful/ failed experiments and designing new solutions
• Data-first thinking to interpret trends and conclude insights post bias-removal
• Should have a P&L thought process, trade-offs that need to be made and impact of various decision on different line items of the P&L
• Proven experience in cost analysis, cost optimisation, and financial modelling
• Proficiency in Excel, financial modelling, dashboards, and analytical tools
• Ability to work with large data sets and derive meaningful insights
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.