Senior Manager - Business Finance

About Team:

Financial Planning and Analysis”  (FP&A) team works closely with the CFO, FP&A head, and all the other functions to enable and improve data-driven decision-making. The team enables financial planning, and allocation of funds, and uses structured problem-solving approaches along with a wide range of statistical / operations research techniques to create productized solutions for business teams to consume.

Role: We are seeking to hire a talented Finance Professional for the FP&A team. This role offers a wide spectrum of responsibilities spanning from Financial and strategic planning, dynamic resource allocation framework for growth and P&L sustainability, driving efficiency charters across the P&L line items, performance management, business analytics and benchmarking with external companies. 

Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial plans to be executed. Hold guardrails for investment to maximize topline growth
• Develop financial model for planning, budgeting, variance analysis and performance management
• Strategic Planning, AOP and LRP creation with thorough and detailed how-lists for topline and P&L line items
• Lead the MEC process with stakeholders from Business Finance and Controllership. Action upon the key risks and opportunities with agility
• Identify opportunities for efficiencies across the org and partner with respective teams to develop action plan to maximize the returns on investment for topline growth as well as cost optimization
• Leverage SQL to extract and manipulate financial data for analysis, Create and maintain dashboards and reports using SQL based tools
• Handle complex ad hoc request with a shorter turnaround time and supplement such request with appropriate analysis and insights for enabling business decision-making
• Assessment and dissemination of impact on business due to macro trends, benchmarking with national and international peer companies to identify the growth and PL opportunities and best practices for implementation. 
• Prepare insightful reports and presentations to communicate and disseminate financial performance to senior leadership and other stakeholders

Qualifications and Competencies

• MBA (Finance) from Tier 1 institute  or Qualified Chartered Accountant with 3 to 5 years experience in Business Finance or FP&A team
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, demonstrated ability of problem-identification and solving, detail-oriented with a strong commitment to accuracy
• Strong Command on SQL for data extraction, analysis and reporting. Proficiency in Python or R is desirable
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, with proven ability to present to the leadership team
• Ability to take ownership and work on multiple projects independently in a fast-paced environment