Associate/Manager(Strategic Finance and Fundraise Advisory)-Bangalore -CA's Only

 Position: Associate/Manager- Strategic Finance and Fundraise Advisory-CA's only

Company: Germin8 Advisors

Experience: 1 to 4 years post- CA qualification (Articleship experience is not considered for this)

Qualification: Chartered Accountant (mandatory) - No CMA

Location: Bengaluru

Employment Type: Full-time

Compensation: Competitive(based on experience), with very attractive Bonus as an upside 

About Germin8

Germin8 is a Virtual CFO and finance advisory firm for funded founders, seed to pre-Series B. We are the embedded finance partner founders use when a full-time CFO is too early or too expensive, but the decisions cannot wait.

Clients are funded startups across SaaS, EdTech, D2C and Manufacturing. We own their finance function end-to-end until they are ready for a permanent CFO.

Founded by a dynamic and very diversified CA, has 13+ years experience including 6 at EY. We are building the team from the ground up.

The Role

The strategic-finance side of Germin8. You will sit next to client founders on financial planning, unit economics, fundraise readiness, investor decks, board reporting and post-funding capital deployment.

No monthly closes. You will be building the model the next round will be raised on, prepping board meetings, pressure-testing the hiring plan and helping founders say yes or no to decisions that compound.

What You Will Do

•      Build financial models for clients: unit economics, three-statement, scenarios, cap tables and fundraise plans

•      Prepare investor decks, data rooms and diligence materials for fundraises (Seed to Series B)

•      Drive fundraise readiness: pricing the round, mapping investors and prepping the founder

•      Support live fundraises: investor outreach, term sheet evaluation, diligence response and close coordination

•      Build board packs and investor updates

•      Run strategic-finance work inside clients: capital allocation, pricing, growth economics, runway and hiring stress-tests

•      Conduct market and competitive research for client strategic initiatives

•      Drive business development: pitch preparation, prospect research, proposal development and converting inbound interest into engagements

•      Use AI tools to accelerate research, modelling, deck production and diligence workflows

•      Build playbooks that scale across engagements

Who We Are Looking For

•      CA with 1 to 4 years post-qualification

•      Background in IB, transaction advisory, Big 4 deals or strategy, VC/PE ecosystem, corporate finance or in-house finance at a funded startup

•      Strong financial modelling: three-statement, DCF and scenarios. Battle-tested, not academic.

•      Excellent decks. Can make a founder look credible in front of investors.

•      Comfortable with founders, board members and VC partners in the room

•      Advanced Excel and PowerPoint

•      Active user of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, research and automation platforms) in day-to-day work

•      Business curiosity. Reads about the companies you work with. Asks why before how.

Qualitative Attributes We Hire For

•      Problem-solver: frames the question before solving it.

•      Founder-friendly: translates finance into decisions, not jargon.

•      Business acumen: understands the company, market and deal. Not just the model.

•      Execution-oriented: brief on Monday, board-ready deliverable by Thursday.

•      Multiple hats: model-builder is also meeting-runner, deck-designer and diligence-responder.

•      AI-forward: actively looks for what can be automated or streamlined.

Why Join Now

•      Direct work with founders and VC investors. Board rooms, fundraise rooms and deal rooms in year one.

•      Full strategic-finance stack exposure (planning, fundraise, M&A and capital allocation) that takes 5 to 7 years to accumulate elsewhere

•      Direct work with the founder. Senior responsibility from day one.

•      Long-term upside as Germin8 scales 

• Learn and Earn the Real Deal (no theories actual hands on work)

Our  client is an equal-opportunity Employer.