Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

We are looking for a commercially sharp and analytically strong FP&A professional who can turn financial data into clear business insights and better decisions. This is not a routine reporting role. The incumbent will work closely with senior management and business teams to strengthen planning, forecasting, performance visibility and financial discipline across our preschool and school network.

What You Will Own

• Business Planning & Forecasting: Drive annual budgets, rolling forecasts and financial plans in partnership with functional and business leaders.
• Management Reporting & Insights: Own monthly performance reviews covering revenue, collections, cash flow, costs and profitability; convert numbers into actionable recommendations.
• Variance & Performance Analysis: Track actuals against budget and forecast, identify key drivers and exceptions, and work with stakeholders on corrective actions.
• Financial Modelling & Decision Support: Build simple, robust and contemporary financial models for scenario planning, business cases, growth initiatives and management decisions.
• MIS & Business Intelligence: Strengthen daily, weekly and monthly MIS; create structured information systems and dashboards that make critical business information easy to access and act upon.
• Financial Information & Analytics: Build and maintain a reliable financial information bank for analysis, trend identification, benchmarking and data-driven decision-making.
• Business Partnering: Provide departments and business leaders with financial targets, plans and insights; follow through on strategic initiatives and performance commitments.
• Financial Control Support: Review key areas of the books of accounts including receivables, payables, cash flow, credit control and general ledger to ensure the quality and integrity of information used for analysis.

What We Are Looking For • CA / MBA Finance or a strong finance professional with relevant FP&A experience.

Approximately 3 - 4 years of experience in FP&A, business finance, commercial finance or management reporting; experience in a multi-unit consumer, education, retail, hospitality or service business would be valuable.

• Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modelling and management MIS.
• Ability to go beyond reporting and explain the 'why behind the numbers', identify business implications and recommend actions.

Why This Role This is an opportunity to work close to the business and senior management in a growing education organization, with the scope to shape the FP&A function, improve decision-support systems and directly influence business performance.

Interested candidates can share their resumes to [email removed] or connect with me on [phone removed].

Office Location Chembur (6 days - Hybrid working)

Our Office Address - 2nd Floor, Sai Commercial Building, 212/213 Govandi Station Road Deonar, Mumbai 400088, MUMBAI, Maharashtra, India