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Senior FP&A Analyst
o9 Solutions
1,001-5,000 employees
Integrated planning platform for demand forecasting
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- 6-8+ years of experience.
- MBA or Chartered Accountant qualification with 6-8+ years of Financial Planning and Analysis experience is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of accounting, financial, and operational principles, including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and International Financial Reporting Standards.
- Experience with reporting and budgeting tools; NetSuite financial systems experience is preferred.
- Experience developing analysis and reporting metrics, and proficiency with Annual Operating Plan, quarterly forecasting, month-end close, and reporting.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining focus on broader goals and initiatives.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interface with various levels of management.
- Advanced skills in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, or equivalent Google Workspace tools.
- Experience in Software as a Service and/or supply chain industries is preferred but not required.
- Lead Financial Planning and Analysis activities, including monthly and quarterly close, analysis, and reporting for the respective function or business.
- Work with Accounting during the close process to ensure accurate entries and suggest reclassifications and accruals as needed.
- Identify and research variances to forecasts, budgets, and prior-year expenses, and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
- Prepare and present the monthly Profit and Loss reporting package with variance explanations, headcount analysis, and expense detail by vendor.
- Develop quarterly forecasts and bottom-up budgets in partnership with the Finance Manager and portfolio leaders.
- Analyze financial data deeply and serve as a subject matter expert to provide additional insights during the forecast and budget process.
- Partner with General Managers and functional leaders to drive analysis and tools that improve decision-making.
- Develop and monitor core Key Performance Indicators to track progress toward the operating plan and drive top-line and bottom-line performance.
- MBA or Chartered Accountant qualification with 6-8+ years of Financial Planning and Analysis experience.
- Experience with NetSuite financial systems.
- Experience in Software as a Service and/or supply chain industries.
o9 Solutions provides an integrated planning platform that helps large organizations manage cross-functional planning and analytics across areas like retail, finance, marketing, sales, and supply chain. The platform uses AI/ML forecasting, collaborative demand planning, demand sensing, and near real-time production scheduling to turn market signals into coordinated plans and execution. It differentiates itself by offering a single end-to-end platform that connects strategy to execution and supports rapid scenario analysis and aligned decision-making across departments. The goal is to help businesses respond quickly to market changes, improve planning accuracy, and keep the entire organization aligned with strategic targets.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total Funding
$533M
Headquarters
Farmers Branch, Texas
Founded
2009
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- July 2026: o9 reported strong first-half commercial momentum and new client wins.
- May 2026: Snowflake Connected Application deepens governed, continuous data flows.
- July 2026: NVIDIA cuOpt benchmark cut a 30-million-variable solve to 57.4 seconds.
What critics are saying
- SAP's trade-secret case survived dismissal in August 2026, extending litigation into 2027.
- Former executives allegedly moved 20,000-plus files; discovery can expose product and customer details.
- An adverse injunction against o9's IP would cripple its planning roadmap and sales pitch.
What makes o9 Solutions unique
- Digital Brain unifies planning, execution, and analytics across 30-plus industry verticals.
- o9's solver-agnostic architecture plugs Snowflake and NVIDIA without replatforming.
- APEX pushes agentic AI into enterprise planning, not isolated forecasting.
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↑ 1%How o9 and NVIDIA are driving faster Supply Chain planning. July 24, 2026 NVIDIA and o9 are partnering to introduce faster supply chain planning to operations, helping organisations become more resilient and efficient o9 is collaborating with NVIDIA to ensure faster solve times for its supply chain operations. In today's complex world, solutions need to be fast and efficient at simplifying workflows, with agility when operating amid volatility. By embedding optimisation and demand planning into operations, businesses can see greater time and cost efficiency, as well as better resilience when faced with ongoing disruption. What matters is how quickly the organisation can understand what changed and decide what to do next. Ashwin Rao, Chief Technology Officer at o9 Technical collaboration. Around the world, o9 is using its Digital Brain platform to drive enterprise planning. To transform this workflow even more, it is collaborating with NVIDIA by applying NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated optimisation solver, NVIDIA cuOpt, on its platform. When NVIDIA cuOpt is integrated into the o9 platform, as well as being run on the NVIDIA Blackwell computing infrastructure, the companies have found more than 10x faster solve times for large-scale supply chain challenges. To test the efficiency of this collaboration, the trial was conducted on a supply chain planning dataset, made up of approximately 30 million variables, 15.7 million constraints and 94 million nonzeros. This reflects the complexity and the scale of large-enterprise inventory optimisation and production planning workloads. By trialling it on this dataset, o9 and NVIDIA were able to test the legitimacy of their collaboration, finding out whether it really did transform efficiency, and to what scale. "Solve time directly limits how many scenarios a planning team can evaluate in a given planning window, especially for large-scale LP problems with tens of millions of variables and constraints," Ashwin Rao, Chief Technology Officer at o9, explains to Supply Chain Digital. "But speed alone isn't the full story - a fast system can still recommend a replenishment quantity that violates a contractual minimum order, or mistake correlation for causation, if it lacks structured reasoning about how decisions connect across the business. "That's why o9 pairs GPU-accelerated solve speed with a neurosymbolic architecture, where the "middle 80%" traces plans, forecasts and inventory positions to identify the actual cause behind a number, not just a fast answer. The result is optimisation that's both faster and more trustworthy for decisions with real financial consequences." Increasing efficiency. The trial demonstrated an optimisation solve in 57.4 seconds, meeting optimal solution status. A CPU-based LP solver required 661.7 seconds to solve the same problem - this reflects a 10x reduction in solve time. By reducing an almost-11-minute compute time to just under one minute shows the levels of efficiency that this partnership can introduce. Despite this immense reduction of time-taken, the objective value remained within 0.008% of the CPU solver's optimal solution, demonstrating no sacrifice of solution quality. When a solution can operate more efficiently, with the same level of high quality, it drives cost savings and greater worker productivity. By minimising time-taken for each solution, there is much less idle-time, therefore less time for customers to wait. Workers become much more efficient and productive. Clients across a range of industries are deploying these solutions in order to solve problems and grow to scale, without the need to invest in other platforms or tools. "The world of optimisation is evolving rapidly, and our Digital Brain platform for planning and decision-making is built to evolve with it," says Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman at o9. "Demonstrating a 10x-plus speedup on a real, 30-million variable supply chain LP - with best-in-class solution quality - is a meaningful proof point for what GPU-accelerated planning can deliver. Our architecture is uniquely positioned to allow o9 enterprise clients to immediately benefit from our collaboration with NVIDIA." * The planning dataset was made up of 30 million variables * The solution has demonstrated 10x faster optimisation * The trial has demonstrated an optimisation solve in 57.4 seconds Growing resilience. Optimisation in planning helps transform large enterprises, solving a range of issues that prevent them from meeting demand. The increase in planning agility also helps organisations avoid risk - teams can enact more scenario planning, respond to disruptions faster and be more resilient. "Faster solves let planning teams iterate multiple times in a day instead of relying on overnight batch runs, meaning they can respond to disruptions as they emerge rather than waiting for the next scheduled cycle," adds Ashwin. "While no system can reliably predict every black swan event like a port strike or geopolitical shock, what matters is how quickly the organisation can understand what changed and decide what to do next. In practice, this pairs neural AI interpreting incoming signals with a symbolic layer connecting them to the inventory, capacity and financial outcomes already modeled in the business. "Speed, in other words, is what makes real-time disruption response possible, but it's the underlying reasoning architecture that makes the response trustworthy enough to act on." The collaboration between o9 and NVIDIA is working to transform efficiency throughout organisations, making operations more time-efficient and cost-efficient. Through the demand planning capabilities that are being expanded on, organisations are also more resilient amid ongoing geopolitical turbulence. Company Portals
o9 Solutions announced that NVIDIA cuOpt, a GPU-accelerated optimization solver, delivers over 10x faster solve times for large-scale supply chain challenges when integrated into o9's Digital Brain platform and run on NVIDIA Blackwell infrastructure. The benchmark was conducted on a production-scale supply chain planning dataset with approximately 30 million variables, 15.7 million constraints, and 94 million nonzeros. NVIDIA cuOpt on NVIDIA B200 GPUs completed the optimization in 57.4 seconds, whilst a CPU-based solver required 661.7 seconds. Solution quality was maintained, with cuOpt's objective value within 0.008% of the CPU solver's optimal solution. The integration was enabled by o9's solver-agnostic platform architecture, allowing enterprise clients across industries to deploy best-in-class solvers without re-platforming.
Chitkara University enters Academic Alliance with o9 Solutions, Inc. Published on July 17, 2026 34 views Chitkara University has entered into an alliance with o9 Solutions, Inc. under the Academic Alliance Program. The collaboration will give students greater exposure to industry practices and help connect academic learning with the professional needs of the digital supply chain sector. The alliance is part of the University's efforts to build industry connections that support student learning and professional development. Through this collaboration, students will have opportunities to develop relevant knowledge and skills and gain a better understanding of the changing needs of the industry. "Students benefit when they can connect what they learn in the classroom with how knowledge and skills are used in the workplace. This alliance will help students better understand the changing needs of the digital supply chain sector," said Dr. Madhu Chitkara, President and Co-Founder, Chitkara University. The collaboration adds to the University's industry engagement in areas linked to rapidly emerging professional fields. It will support learning opportunities that help students understand current industry practices and requirements.
o9 Solutions appoints Krishnakumar Kulankara to Chief Operating Officer. DALLAS, June 13, 2026 - o9 Solutions, a leading software company that is powering enterprise planning and decisioning models across 30-plus industry verticals with its groundbreaking Digital Brain platform, today announced the appointment of Krishnakumar Kulankara, who has spent more than a decade at o9 building and transforming key areas of the business across delivery, product, and go-to-market, to the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Kulankara's appointment signals o9's commitment to the operational transformation required to drive adoption of its next breakthrough innovation, the APEX Model, short for Agile, Adaptive, Autonomous Planning & Execution. o9's original breakthrough 10x innovation, the Digital Brain platform, was designed to optimize enterprise value by bridging the functional, process, and knowledge silos of enterprises and drive more agile planning and execution in response to market risks and opportunities. APEX builds on this innovation, recognizing that the next big 10x problem to solve is making change simpler, and transformations faster and more reliable in delivering value. To make this happen, enterprises need the constraint is not just better planning and decision-making technology. The constraint is the traditional operating models themselves: Organization structures, processes, people skills, and data all must be reimagined for the AI age. APEX is powered by a scientific knowledge-powered method and model that understands the complexity of enterprise business models, and how enterprise planning, decision-making, and execution work at scale in volatile and uncertain business environments to drive enterprise value. Powered by that knowledge, APEX has powerful Adaptive capabilities that are constantly learning and identifying where and why value leakages occur in enterprises of all types across industries, how to measure and diagnose the root causes, and systematically and continuously improve and transform every planning and execution process, organizational skill, and capability to maximize enterprise value. APEX also systematically helps processes become more Autonomous with Agentic AI, automating routine analysis and actions, and augmenting human capabilities in higher-value decision-making and execution. The goal of APEX is to make the transformation journey simpler, faster, and more continuous to ensure that every decision, every process, and every function of the organization is constantly improving and focused on optimizing enterprise value. In his new role, Kulankara will lead the cross-functional alignment and operational transformation required to advance APEX adoption at scale, both within o9 and for its clients. He will drive the transformation of each business function and organizational capabilities to ensure o9 operates at its highest level of efficiency and execution. Kulankara brings more than a decade of experience at o9, having founded and scaled business units and industry practices from the ground up. His tenure has been defined by a proven ability to operate across every dimension of the business, from new client acquisition and strategic sales cycles to product development, delivery, and digital transformation. He has built strong executive relationships across a wide range of industries and has overseen programs delivering large-scale value for some of the world's leading companies. "We are at a defining moment for enterprise planning," Kulankara said. "APEX is not just a technology innovation. It is a fundamental rethinking of how enterprises operate, decide, and deliver value. As COO, my focus is on driving the cross-functional alignment and operational transformation that will accelerate APEX adoption at scale. We have the platform, the people, and the momentum, and I am committed to ensuring o9 operates at its highest level to make that vision a reality." "Krishna is the executive our organization turns to when the most complex, cross-functional challenges arise," said Igor Rikalo, President of o9 Solutions. "His decade-plus at o9 has given him an unmatched understanding of how we operate, compete, and deliver value. What sets Krishna apart is not just his institutional knowledge or his track record of building high-performing teams and scaling industry practices from inception. It is his ability to bring the entire organization together around a common goal and drive transformation with both urgency and humility. He is the right leader to operationalize APEX and position o9 for its next phase of growth." o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9's Digital Brain Platform. o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations - such as innovative enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for forecasting, demand/supply balancing, scenario planning, real time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods - as well as organization, process and change management best practices to transform decision-making speed and intelligence.
o9 Solutions promotes Dr. Ashwin Rao to Chief Technology Officer. Business Wire DALLAS, July 02, 2026-(BUSINESS WIRE)-o9 Solutions, a leading software company that is powering enterprise planning and decisioning models across 30-plus industry verticals with its groundbreaking Digital Brain platform, today announced the promotion of Dr. Ashwin Rao, a multi-faceted leader with experiences across Wall Street, industry and academia, to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Dr. Rao's appointment signals o9's commitment to the breakthrough innovations it is pioneering to transform enterprise decision-making for the new normal of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) in the age of AI. This 10x innovation is APEX - short for Agile, Adaptive, Autonomous Planning & Execution. o9's original breakthrough 10x innovation - the Digital Brain platform - was designed to optimize enterprise value by bridging functional, process and knowledge silos of enterprises and drive more agile planning and execution in response to market risks and opportunities. APEX builds on this innovation, recognizing that the next big 10x problem to solve is making change simpler, and transformations faster and more reliable in delivering value. To make this happen, the constraint is not just better planning and decision-making technology. The constraint is the traditional operating models themselves: Organization structures, processes, people skills, data all must be reimagined for the AI age. APEX is powered by a scientific knowledge-powered method and model that understands the complexity of enterprise business models, and how enterprise planning, decision-making and execution work at scale in volatile and uncertain business environments to drive enterprise value. Powered by that knowledge, APEX has powerful "Adaptive" capabilities that are constantly learning and identifying where and why value leakages occur in enterprises of all types across industries, how to measure and diagnose the root causes, and systematically and continuously improve and transform every planning and execution process, organizational skill, and capability to maximize enterprise value. APEX also systematically helps processes become more "Autonomous" with Agentic AI, automating routine analysis and actions, and augmenting human capabilities in higher-value decision-making and actioning. The goal of APEX is to make the transformation journey much more simpler, faster, and more continuous to ensure that every decision, every process, and every function of the organization is constantly improving, and focused on optimizing enterprise value.