Financial Plan & Analysis Specialist

Skill required: Financial Planning Analysis - Financial Planning and Analysis (FPA)

Designation: Financial Plan Analysis Specialist

Qualifications: Any Graduation

Years of Experience:7 to 11 years

What would you do
You will be aligned with our Finance Operations vertical and help us in determining financial outcomes by getting involved and leading team providing planning, forecasting, collecting operational data/reports, conducting analysis and reconciling transaction, preparation of standard Adhoc management reports for region, brands, country, product, Service type etc., providing standardized/adhoc and insightful level of analyses.

What are we looking for

Ideal Candidate should have strong experience in the following areas:

Strong domain experience to deliver FPA activities including strategic plan, budget regular forecast exercise, Financial planning, reporting, variance analysis, preparation complete analysis of PL (including gross margin, net margin SGA analysis)

Strong experience in working on key planning forecasting tools (including but not limited to Onestream Anaplan)

Experience of working on SAP ERP platform

Experienced in working on key analytics applications such as Power BI/ Power query including creation of dashboards will be preferred

Strong hands on experience in MS Excel

Strong stakeholder management skills

Strong analytical and story telling skills

Must be a Commerce graduate (CA/CMA/CFA/MBA Finance preferred)

Experienced in participating transformation and improvement initiatives for FPA area

Comfortable to work in Flexi / Night Shifts

Roles and Responsibilities:

Support Strategic plan, budget regular forecast exercises

Responsible for Financial planning, reporting, variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting, preparation analysis of PL (including gross margin net margin analysis), forecast accuracy SGA expense analysis.

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.

As required, manage client communication, respond to queries, investigate irregularities and anomalies and provide technical support for daily tasks.

Preparation of Working Capital Cost of Sales reports is to support the business.

Partners with client stakeholders to understand their strategic goals, operational context and activities to explain results with strategic business insights and facts

Use a diverse range of applications (including but not limited to (Onestream, Anaplan, SAP, Power BI MS Excel) 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/brands, including product understanding, validation, problem/query resolution and coordination of communications.

Uses storytelling principles to convey impactful messages

Responsible to maintain services in line with Service expectations agreed with the business.

Development, Objectives and Performance management of the team and individuals in line with policy and performance framework

Ensure one on one feedback is held with all team members

Reduction of single points of failure and dependency on key individuals

Qualification Any Graduation