- Location
- Bangalore · Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Glance All - Finance
- Seniority
- Lead
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
Glance AI is an AI commerce platform shaping the next wave of e-commerce with inspiration-led shopping, less about searching for what you want and more about discovering who you could be. Operating in 140 countries, Glance AI transforms every screen into a stage for instant, personal, and joyful discovery, where inspiration becomes something you can explore, feel, and shop in the moment.
Its proprietary models, seamlessly integrated with Google’s most advanced AI platforms, Gemini and Imagen on Vertex AI, deliver hyper-realistic, deeply personal shopping experiences across categories such as fashion, beauty, travel, accessories, home décor, pets, and more. Designed to seamlessly integrate into everyday consumer technology, Glance AI reimagines the future of e-commerce with inspiration-led discovery and shopping.
With an open architecture built for effortless adoption across hardware and software ecosystems, Glance AI is creating a platform that can become a staple in everyday consumer technology. It partners with the world’s leading smartphone makers, connected TV manufacturers, telecom providers, and global brands — meeting people where they are: on mobile, smart TVs, and brand websites.
Through Glance AI’s rich first-party data and unparalleled consumer access, it harnesses InMobi’s global scale, insights, and targeting capabilities to create high-impact, performance-driven shopping journeys for brands worldwide. Part of the InMobi Group, a global technology and advertising leader reaching over 2 billion devices and serving more than 30,000 enterprise brands worldwide, Glance AI is backed by Google, Jio Platforms, and Mithril Capital.
Glance - An InMobi Group Company
Founded in 2019, Glance is a consumer technology company that operates disruptive digital platforms including Glance, Roposo, and Nostra. Glance’s ’smart lock screen’ inspires consumers to make the most of every moment by surfacing relevant experiences without the need for searching and downloading apps. Glance Lock Screen is currently available on over 450 million smartphones worldwide. Roposo is a LIVE platform that is revolutionizing live experiences, through a unique, immersive, creator-led approach. Nostra is the largest gaming platform in India and Southeast Asia, offering gamers engaging ways to discover, play, watch, learn and compete.
Headquartered in Singapore, Glance is an unconsolidated subsidiary of InMobi Group and is funded by Jio Platforms, Google, and Mithril Capital. For more information visit glance.com, nostra.gg, and roposo.com
What should you know about joining Glance?
At Glance, we walk the talk – free yourself, dream big, and chase your passion! On joining, you’ll have opportunities to make an immediate impact on mission-critical projects, as you work with highly capable and ambitious peer groups.
Be rewarded for your autonomy even as you collaborate. Ideate, innovate, and inspire by leveraging bleeding-edge tech to disrupt consumer experiences.
While you work, we’ll take care of nourishing your body, mind, and soul. This includes daily meals, gym, trainings, tech tools, and regular unwind sessions. Also, feel free to bring your kids – even the furry ones – to the office!
What will you be doing?
We are looking for an experienced Lead – FP&A to strengthen and scale the FP&A function at Glance. The role will own Opex management and governance, including planning, budgeting, forecasting, month-end actualization, provisions, financial reporting, and management insights. The role will partner closely with business functions to drive financial discipline, improve visibility into spend and enable data-driven decision-making.
The role will also lead MIS, dashboarding, reporting automation and AI-led finance transformation, while working closely with Accounting/Finance to ensure accuracy, timely closure, appropriate cost allocation and integrity of financial information.
Key Responsibilities
- Opex & Marketing Ownership – Own end-to-end financial management of Opex and Marketing across functions including HR, Admin, Legal, Finance, IT/Software, Facilities, Procurement and other corporate functions.
- Planning & Forecasting – Lead AOP, annual budgeting, quarterly/rolling forecasts and long-range planning for Opex and Marketing in partnership with functional stakeholders.
- Month-End Close & Provisions – Drive monthly Opex actualization, accruals/provisions, true-ups and closure, ensuring expenses are accurately recorded, mapped and closed within timelines.
- Performance & Variance Management – Deliver Budget vs. Actual and Forecast vs. Actual analysis, identify key drivers, risks and opportunities, and provide actionable insights to functional and senior leadership.
- Cost Governance & Optimization – Track Opex run-rate, commitments, vendor spend and future obligations; drive cost discipline, savings opportunities and adherence to approved budgets.
- Marketing Finance – Partner with Marketing on campaign/vendor spend, budget utilization, accruals, actualization and spend effectiveness/ROI analysis.
- MIS & Management Reporting – Own Opex and Marketing MIS, dashboards and monthly management reporting covering budgets, actuals, provisions, commitments, forecasts, variances and business commentary.
- Automation & Finance Transformation – Build and enhance automated reporting, dashboards and data workflows using Power BI, Advanced Excel, Power Query, Macro and AI/data-enabled solutions to improve efficiency, accuracy and reporting timeliness.
- Business Partnership, Process improvements & Financial Controls – Act as a finance business partner to support functions, challenging assumptions and ensuring robust controls around POs, contracts, invoices, allocations, cost centers, entities and vendor commitments.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- MBA (Finance) with 5–8 years of relevant FP&A / Cost Governance experience.
- Strong expertise in Opex planning, budgeting, forecasting, provisions, month-end closure and variance analysis.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate financial data into actionable business insights.
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills; experience with Power BI, Power Query, Macro and/or similar BI tools preferred.
- Strong interest in automation, AI-led finance transformation and dashboarding.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to work with and challenge senior functional leaders constructively.
- Strong ownership, attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities across month-end, forecasting and planning cycles.
- Experience in cost optimization, financial governance and process automation will be an advantage.
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"Glance collects and processes personal data such as your name, contact details, resume and other information that may contain personal data for the purpose of processing your application. Glance utilizes Greenhouse, a third-party platform. Please review Greenhouse's Privacy Policy to understand how the data collected from you is processed and managed. By clicking on 'Submit Application', you acknowledge and agree to the above privacy terms. Should you have any privacy concerns, you may contact us through the details mentioned in your application confirmation email."
