Finance Associate

Why Choose Bottomline?

Are you ready to transform the way businesses pay and get paid? Bottomline is a global leader in business payments and cash management, with over 35 years of experience and moving more than $16 trillion in payments annually. We're looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help drive impactful results for our customers. If you're dedicated to delighting customers and promoting growth and innovation - we want you on our team!

Job Title:

Finance Associate

Role:

Business Partnering

Location:

Bengaluru

Job Summary

• We’re seeking a strategic and driven FP&A Finance Associate to join our dynamic Global Finance Team. This is more than a numbers role – it’s a chance to shape the financial future of a fast-growing company. This Bengaluru-based role is embedded within the nerve center of financial planning and performance reporting.
• This role will support Finance Business Partners and functional leaders across planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and financial analysis.

• The ideal candidate combines strong FP&A fundamentals, analytical skills, and business acumen to deliver actionable insights and support informed decision-making.
• This is your chance to be part of a high-impact team where your insights will shape strategy and fuel growth. We value innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning—and we’re excited to grow with you.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Partnership

Serve as a trusted finance partner to FP&A Partners and leadership teams, delivering actionable insights on business drivers, performance, risks, and opportunities to support strategic and operational decisions.

Planning, Forecasting & Reporting

Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range and investment planning, and monthly performance reporting with variance analysis on business performance, resource utilization, and financial outcomes.

Workforce Analytics

: Analyze headcount, hiring, attrition, compensation, and workforce trends to understand financial implications and support resource planning.

Executive Reporting & Decision Support

: Prepare executive-level presentations and business reviews that translate complex financial and operational data into clear, concise insights for senior leadership.

Financial Data Modelling

• Build and maintain models for revenue, expenses, headcount, business scenarios, and sensitivity analysis.
• Manage capacity models to inform headcount planning and expense forecasting.

Financial Analysis and Insights

Perform structured and ad hoc analyses to identify trends, explain variances, evaluate scenarios, and provide actionable insights to executive team.

Performance Storytelling

Translate financial and operational data into clear narratives and visual outputs for finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Process Improvement

: Drive continuous improvement in processes by leveraging technology, automation, data analytics, and emerging AI capabilities while proactively identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and insights.

Process Improvement and AI Adoption

Proactively explore and apply AI, automation, and analytics to improve accuracy, standardize analysis, simplify processes, and increase reporting efficiency

Qualifications & Experience

Chartered Accountant (CA), & MBA in Finance from a top-tier institution.

4-7 years of progressive experience in FP&A (Business Finance, Corporate Finance, or a related analytical finance role) —ideally in software or payments industry.

Experience with headcount, compensation, or workforce-related financial planning is preferred.

Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, variance analysis, management reporting, and financial modelling.

Experience working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams in a deadline-driven environment.

Technical Skills & Competencies:

Strong grounding in

accounting fundamentals,

financial modelling, forecasting, and

scenario

planning.

Expertise

Excel

(modeling, pivots, lookups, arrays)

Working Knowledge in tools

• Snowflake
• (for data extraction/joins),

Alteryx

(for workflows and transformations) &

Power BI

(for visual analytics).

Experience with

Adaptive Planning

or similar Planning & Budgeting tools.

Reasonable understanding of SaaS metrics, financial KPIs, and technology-driven business models.

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Preferred Attributes

Highly dynamic individual comfortable with rapid changes and evolving priorities.

Questions the data, understands the “why,” and seeks to improve.

Commercially minded and able to connect workforce decisions to financial outcomes.

Detail-oriented

and

committed

to delivering accurate, high-stakes work under tight deadlines.

Demonstrates strong

analytical

and

problem-solving

mindset.

Known for delivering

accurate

, high-stake work under tight deadlines with limited supervision.