Associate Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - Banking/Financial Services

Skill required: Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Designation: Delivery Operations Associate Manager

Qualifications: Chartered Accountant, Master of Business Administration

What would you do?

- You will be aligned with our Finance Operations vertical and will be helping us in determining financial outcomes by collecting operational data/reports, whilst conducting analysis and reconciling transactions.

- Financial planning, reporting, variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting. These processes include planning, budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, and performance reporting.

What are we looking for?

- Accounting, Financial & Management Information Reporting skilled.

- Financial Reporting Systems expert.

- Oracle / SAP, EPM & working knowledge of SQL is preferred.

- MS Excel, PowerPoint and Access expert.

- Project Management skilled.

- People Management expert.

- Client Relationship Management expert.

- Financial Planning & Analysis expert.

- Communication & Presentation skills expert.

- Strong FP&A experience required in Banking, Manufacturing, Retail or Consumer goods industry.

- FP&A experience to include budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis of revenue, working capital, gross margin & SG&A, pricing, and predictive reporting.

- Experience in database development and report creation (preferred).

- Broad knowledge, experience and understanding of financial services operations.

- Experience within the information delivery environment with a working knowledge of information delivery systems and processes.

- Experience with leading teams in a technical development environment.

- Understanding of financial reporting / management reporting and business intelligence.

- Management Accounting and Reporting - Delivery of various reporting containing Financial and Management Information sourced from multiple systems / platforms.

- Certification and experience is preferred. Experience in client interfacing role as well as team handling role would be an added advantage.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Preparation of standard & Adhoc management reports for region, country, product, service type etc. Provides standardized and insightful level of analyses. Delivers ad hoc analyses.

- Supports Annual Operating Plan & forecasts.

- Planning, creating and managing reporting data and report out from various database systems.

- Provide professional expertise and direction to other team members and act as the focal point for business units and Technology by participating in key project initiatives. Also, as required, manage client communication, responding to queries, investigate irregularities and anomalies and provide technical support for day-to-day issues.

- Partners with reporting clients to understand their strategic goals, operational context and activities in order to explain results with strategic business insights and facts.

- Use a diverse range of applications and understand the business and technical functionality of each application and its relevance to the business community.

- Provide support to all business units across the region, including product understanding, validation, problem/query resolution and coordination of communications.

- Uses storytelling principles to convey impactful message.

- Major accountability for Planning, Forecasting, Preparation & analysis of P&L, Forecast accuracy, SG&A, Working Capital Cost of Sales reports is to support the businesses.

- This role requires considerable liaison with other functions, to ensure service level are achieved and change is coordinated. In addition, a strong working relationship with other teams is needed to enable smooth productionisation of new/enhanced information solutions. Cross team relationships are also critical to delivery information services including productivity and costing.

- This role is expected to ensure:

- Team & individual objectives and performance in line with culture.

- Services maintained in line with service expectations agreed with the business.

Processes, Delivery & Customer Support:

- Provide support on Financial & Management Information delivery to business users.

- Pro-active ownership, logging & status communication of all issues.

- Work Logging System.