Bangalore, India
Who are we?
Aarki is an AI-driven company specializing in mobile advertising solutions designed to fuel revenue growth. We leverage AI to discover audiences in a privacy-first environment through trillions of contextual bidding signals and proprietary behavioral models. Our audience engagement platform includes creative strategy and execution. We handle 5 million mobile ad requests per second from over 10 billion devices, driving performance for both publishers and brands. We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with a global presence across the United States, EMEA, and APAC.
The role?
The Financial Modelling Analyst will serve as a core member of Aarki’s FP&A function, responsible for building and maintaining high-integrity financial models that power forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, and strategic analysis. This role is critical to improving forecasting accuracy, enhancing planning rigor, and enabling smarter decision-making across the business.
The analyst will own the development of dynamic, driver-based models that link operational metrics to financial outcomes across revenue, gross margin, Opex, and EBITDA. They will partner with the Head of FP&A to support monthly forecasts, annual operating plans (AOP), client margin analysis, cohort-based tracking, and sensitivity models tied to platform, geo, and vertical-level changes.
This role requires expertise in financial modelling principles and comfort navigating high-variance, performance-driven business models such as DSPs. The ideal candidate combines precision, agility, and ownership and the ability to manage complex models independently while iterating quickly in a dynamic environment. Experience with AdTech, digital marketing, or performance-driven revenue models is strongly preferred.
What will you do?
- Build and Maintain Core Financial Models
- Develop dynamic, driver-based P&L, cash flow, and headcount models with linkages to key business inputs.
- Ensure models are scalable, audit-proof, and capable of supporting rolling forecasts, AOP/Budgets, and long-range planning.
- Build multi-scenario capabilities into models (base, upside, downside), including sensitivity toggles and assumption sheets.
- Maintain documentation of model logic, version history, and key assumptions for transparency and continuity.
- Lead Forecasting and Budget Modelling Workstreams
- Own the monthly forecast model refresh process across revenue, margin, and operating costs.
- Translate input from sales, product, and operations into updated forecasts, ensuring accuracy and clear rationale for all changes across versions.
- Build the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) model in coordination with Head of FP&A, with bottoms-up inputs and department-level views.
- Track forecast vs actual variance and maintain model discipline to minimize bias and improve forecast accuracy over time.
- Enable Strategic Analysis
- Partner with cross functional teams to incorporate cohort-level metrics into financial forecasts.
- Support analysis of revenue contribution by client, product line, and platform (iOS/Android), with margin impact.
- Translate business KPIs into forecast drivers and financial implications.
- Support Investor, Board, and Executive Reporting
- Provide clean, model-backed data and visualizations for investor decks, board materials, and CEO/Leadership briefings.
- Ensure every figure in management reporting has a model trace-back, assumption logic, and audit trail.
- Stress-test and validate outputs before submission to avoid downstream reporting errors or surprises.
- Build Modelling Discipline Across the FP&A Function
- Enforce consistent model hygiene: minimal hardcoding, cell references documented, and assumptions centralized.
- Standardize naming conventions, formatting, and input-output flows across all FP&A models.
- Serve as the go-to expert for Google Sheets/Microsoft Excel best practices, modelling techniques, and version control.
- Drive a culture of precision, documentation, and responsiveness in all forecasting workstreams.
What are we looking for?
Must-Have Qualifications
- 3–5 years of experience in financial modelling, FP&A, investment banking, corporate finance, or strategic finance roles.
- Strong command of driver-based modelling for P&L, AOP, and multi-scenario planning; able to build from scratch and maintain model integrity under change.
- Deep expertise in Excel/Google Sheets: dynamic formulas, structured inputs/outputs, versioning best practices, and error checking.
- Proven track record of supporting forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis processes with high attention to detail.
- Ability to translate complex business dynamics into structured financial logic — especially in performance-based or media-revenue models.
- Comfortable working under tight timelines, dealing with ambiguity, and owning end-to-end model workflows with minimal oversight.
- Strong analytical mindset, business intuition, and fluency in finance fundamentals (revenue recognition, margin math, working capital, EBITDA).
- Excellent written documentation and verbal communication skills — must be able to explain model logic to non-finance stakeholders clearly.
Nice-to-Have Experience
- Exposure to mobile advertising, programmatic DSPs, gaming, or subscription-based business models.
- Familiarity with VBA/Macros/SQL or ability to work with raw datasets to support cohort-based forecasting and related modelling.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (sales, product, analytics) to capture forecast inputs and challenge assumptions.
- Knowledge of BI or dashboard tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker) to support visualization of financial outputs.
- Prior experience contributing to board reporting, investor updates, or strategic modelling projects (e.g., scenario stress tests, cost optimization).
