Assistant Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis

Responsible for the monthly/quarterly MIS closing, budgeting process with key stakeholders in the organization, driving analytics for financial & business insights, reporting business performance through MIS under the direction of Head FP&A.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage monthly and quarterly financial MIS closure process to reflect the latest business result.
• Analyze business trends and provide insights to management.
• Preparation of monthly/quarterly business review, operations review presentations
• Working with other functions to identify risks and opportunities for the business.
• Continuously monitor financial and business KPIs, highlight trends and analyses causes of unexpected variance. Partner with teams to improve results.
• Work towards identifying means for cost optimization and focus on continuous improvement in the financial health of the Organization.
• Consolidate and review the annual budgeting of multiple verticals & countries.
• Work closely with Senior Manager FP&A on strategic matters and financial priorities
• Manage the review process of strategic cost out initiatives.
• Working in Hyperion (Oracle) project to ensure accurate/timely roll out.
• Develop expertise in Hyperion and new reports/analysis development in Hyperion and Smart view.

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Qualified Chartered Accountant with at least 5 years' experience including FP&A (experience preferably in global reporting role in an MNC company)
• Expertise in working with large amounts of data, facts, figures, and number crunching,
• Experience in Multi countries set up having operation in more than 100 legal entities,
• Candidates with experience of working in Shared service operations set up do not apply.
• Hands on experience in forecasting, compiling P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements
• Experience in designing MIS to facilitate business performance reviewing is mandatory.
• Having excellent ability to express data insights through visual impact driven analysis.
• Having excellent cross-functional communication skills.
• Sound knowledge of the business and business processes.
• Good knowledge of MS-Excel, Power point & other MS-Office Applications.
• Having system implementation experience highly desirable, Oracle Hyperion tool experience preferred