Head of Financial Intelligence & Strategy

Zenalyst is building a powerful AI-driven platform that redefines how business decisions are made—by transforming Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), financial due diligence, and investor monitoring. Our platform merges deep financial insight with advanced AI automation to empower CXOs, investors, and finance teams to make faster, smarter, and more confident decisions.

Whether it's evaluating new investments, tracking business performance, or uncovering red flags in financial data, Zenalyst acts as the intelligent operating layer for strategic financial decision-making.

We are seeking a dynamic and analytically strong leader to take charge of Zenalyst’s financial domain intelligence. In this role, you will anchor the platform’s strategic direction by defining core financial logic, ensuring accuracy and relevance of financial models, and collaborating with product and tech teams to convert those insights into scalable tools.

While your core strength lies in finance, you’ll also play a pivotal role in shaping the product from a domain perspective—bringing deep financial understanding into user workflows, reporting logic, and automation design.

• Define, validate, and continuously enhance the financial logic and domain capabilities embedded in the Zenalyst platform.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for FP&A, FDD, investor reporting, and finance-led decision systems.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure product features align with real-world financial practices and investor expectations.
• Translate evolving CFO/VC/PE workflows into structured product requirements.
• Conduct deep user research, stakeholder interviews, and workflow mapping.
• Maintain a strong pulse on the latest financial trends, due diligence practices, and automation opportunities.
• Support internal teams on key financial storytelling, client onboarding, and knowledge documentation.
• Coordinate with the AI engineer to train the system on finance domain.

• Education:

  CA or IIT/IIM/ISB or global top-tier institution preferred.

• Experience:

• Energetic finance expert who thrives in a high-growth, fast-paced environment and embraces rapid change with agility.
• Proven exposure to financial due diligence, performance analysis, and defining KPIs that drive strategic business insights.
• Experience working with or building financial SaaS or analytics platforms is a plus.
• Strong ability to work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams.
• Deep knowledge of business planning, investor reporting, and finance transformation.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and leadership skills.

• Shape the core financial intelligence of a next-generation decision-making platform.
• Collaborate with founders and experts from IIT, BITS, Big 4, and top-tier investment firms.
• High visibility and ownership in a fast-scaling startup.
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
• Work at the intersection of finance, product, and artificial intelligence.