Climate Tech VC Analyst - CTIN

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About the Organization

Climate Collective Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting climate tech startups. We work within the climate ecosystem to foster innovation by connecting startups with funding, investors, education, and accelerator programs. Our remote team of 40 members operates collaboratively to drive impactful, sustainable solutions for climate-related challenges.

Job Description

The Climate Collective intends to build on its pioneering work in developing the Climate Tech Startup Ecosystem in India over the past several years, to now grow its presence in the Climate Tech Venture Capital ecosystem in India and globally. Here is a brief snapshot of the integrated Climate Tech Venture Capital platforms that we are building:

Climate Tech Investment Network (CTIN) provides investment syndication support services to institutional investors and angel networks through a deal-flow centric platform to catalyze early-stage capital into Climate Tech startups in Developing Asia.

Job Responsibilities

Grants Management and Reporting:

• Coordinate with research managers and IFMR to ensure necessary steps relevant to budgeting, contract set-up and compliance, grant reporting, milestone tracking, etc., are met and all project teams track and manage finances appropriately.
• Review donor agreements from a statutory compliance, reporting and operational management perspective.
• Serve as liaison with IFMR Accounts team and Inclusion Economics India Centre (IEIC) to ensure donors and Inclusion Economics receive accurate accounting and reporting information and timely payments are made.
• Support research teams in preparing financial reports to be submitted to donors and help with providing rationale and responding to queries from donors.
• Work with Inclusion Economics at Yale University and IEIC based team members to institutionalize financial management, controls, and operational protocol to ensure all processes run smoothly and are in compliance with donor and government requirements. Oversee and maintain systematic documentation related to grants, budgets, contracts, and payments.
• Develop, create and/or modify financial analysis templates to support the administration and ongoing monitoring of a growing portfolio of grants. Track cross-project liquidity for IEIC grants and providing regular financial updates and reports to IEIC at IFMR leadership.
• Prepare and manage grant budgets, initiate requests and provide information for budget revisions or amendment requests.

Financial Accounting:

• Work with research staff, external vendors, and IFMR to ensure expenses submitted follow appropriate policies and procedures and are booked to appropriate funding sources and lines.
• Facilitate approval of requisitions, and follow up on procurement orders and payment requests as per the agreed systems to resolve issues related to invoicing, expense management, and payments.
• Conduct regular reviews of ledger accuracy and coordinate with partner organizations to rectify errors.  Receivables management, local taxation compliance etc.
• Track funding milestones, including supporting invoice submission, to ensure continuity of operational funding and liquidity.
• Maintain current accounting of expenses, prepare monthly reports, trend & variance analysis, and other ad-hoc reports (both financial and expense narrative).
• Support IEIC leadership in the annual budgeting process and provide functional guidance to the research team in the preparation of budgets, cash flow projections, and work plans for grant planning and reporting.

Statutory & Donor Audits

• Assist the IFMR Finance team with the retrieval of financial documents for presentation of both statutory and donor audits and respond to audit queries as necessary.
• Ensure the implementation of audit recommendations.

Administration and Procurement

• Provide guidance to the Finance team in day-to-day office operations, procurements, events, vendors, assets and equipment.
• Work towards continuously improving the administrative and procurement procedures.
• Ensure smooth operation at all the IEIC offices in Delhi, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Most importantly, since we are a distributed team, we like people who are motivated and intrinsically entrepreneurial.
• Strong attention to detail, ability to execute with quality and accuracy, in a resourceful manner
• Ability to coordinate and work with cross-functional teams and align key activities to achieve mutual goals, ability to see the bigger picture
• Excellent team player, with the ability to work in a collaborative manner
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills
• Ability to anticipate challenges and develop recommendations
• Ability to work with a diverse set of stakeholders – startups, investors, industry experts, etc.
• Fluency in English, ability to deliver high-quality written work;
• Excellent skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, and a general adherence towards systems & productivity tools (we use Zoho, Slack and a few others).

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